Wolves living today along the border of Norway and Sweden appear to be descended from Finnish wolves.
Researchers say this new material could be used in place of other types of plastic.
Maritime shipping for Amazon, Walmart, Target, and IKEA accounted for some 20 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions between 2018 and 2020.
A pollution expert on why any attempt to rid the ocean of plastic completely is doomed to fail—and what we actually need to be focusing on.
Sure, getting to where the polar bears are is carbon-intensive. But the last mile to visit them is now electric.
The crabs are on the move for their yearly trip to the sea to mate. It's quite a scene.
The 30 to 50 feral hogs tweet has never been more prescient.
The future of Earth is becoming a national park that humans will visit for the weekend while spending most of their lives in space.
While human DNA has been used in criminal cases for decades, this marks the first time plant DNA has been used in a federal criminal case.
Pollution has created a blanket of white foam over the Yamuna River right as bathers visit for the Chhath Puja festival.
Amphipods may not have the same big-name appeal as seals and penguins, but they're key members of the Antarctic ecosystem. Let us honor them.
The large marine mammals are increasingly encountering humans as they reestablish their homes on the mainland.
Experts warn that Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales won’t recover from environmental destruction and overgrazing if the horses remain.
Winning images from this year’s Capturing Ecology contest include a spider with a taste for bumblebees and a gull with a lice problem.
A new study describes two cases of parthenogenesis, in which birds laid viable eggs without breeding.
Forests are sequestering more carbon than they emit globally. But a new UNESCO report shows some of the world's most precious forests are turning into emitters.
A historic effort to extinguish invasive rats on the ecologically sensitive island may not have worked as planned.
Elephants without tusks are far less likely to be killed by poachers, in what is becoming a distinct—but possibly temporary—evolutionary advantage.
The drug kingpin's hippos have run wild in Colombia. A new court ruling could help pave the way for a humane way to deal with the world's most invasive species.
"They spent I don’t know how many tens of millions of dollars to invent fishing."
