Many people are terrified of hornets, and for good reason—their potent, painful stings are extremely unpleasant and provide ...

They found microplastics where almost nothing lives. The discovery inside Antarctica’s insect changes everything.

A new species of shrew, Soriculus dexingensis, is discovered in Tibet, raising the number of known shrew species there to six ...

Science communicators love to throw around the term “megadiverse” like it’s some kind of honorary badge, but it’s actually a ...

If you spot tiny holes and piles of sawdust on your tree, bark beetles could be the culprit. Unfortunately, the solution ...

Did you know there's an insect that naturally blends in with its surroundings? Learn all about the rare leaf insect's ...

Across Montana’s eastern plains, few sights register as strongly as a bison herd navigating open grassland. Although the grizzly bear is the official state animal, the plains bison has come to ...

Correspondence to Dr Rachel Chester, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK; r.chester{at}uea.ac.uk Objectives To (i) ...

In his classic book of essays, Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold described his changing view of wolves. Initially, like many men of his era, Leopold shot wolves whenever he could. However, over time, ...

When Dr. Michael Hathaway's new book What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make arrived at my door, I made the mistake—as many people do—of deciding to flip through it and add it to ...

People tend to perceive their personal risk from climate change as lower than the risk faced by others, which can demotivate engaging in mitigation actions. A meta-analysis now quantifies this ...

Economists have spent a decade designing the perfect climate club, yet political reality has hitherto rendered these designs practically infeasible. The Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Markets ...