Editors of The Lancet published an op-ed decrying RFK Jr.'s one year of failure at HHS. They're correct about RFK Jr, but they are not blameless in what has happened.

Insect taxonomist Art Borkent has described and named more than 300 species of midges but fears his field of science is dying out, despite millions of insects, fungi and other organisms waiting to be ...

A colossal asteroid strike about 6.3 million years ago scattered molten debris across what is now south-eastern Brazil, leaving behind a vast field of natural glass that researchers say ranks among ...

When that material is transported into the oceans, it increases the carbon-to-phosphorus ratio of marine sediments. The ...

Once deeply woven into Bengali rural life for centuries, this traditional oil-grinding method is on the verge of extinction ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

Each year on March 3, World Wildlife Day draws global attention to the plants and animals that make life on Earth possible.

Half a billion years after Earth’s first mass extinction, a quarry in China has cracked open a lost ocean world.

Observing natural movements, the growth of the Earth, and the ecosystems sustaining it has become a healing experience for me ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that Earth's first mass extinction may have been far more sudden and severe than previously ...

Being able to spot the Earth, let alone any signs of life on our planet, would require an enormous telescope from 66 million ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction.