A study in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the African Swine Fever virus, currently circulating in Europe, is not the ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.

Across Africa, many rural communities face a growing sanitation crisis. Wastewater treatment systems, where they exist, are ...

There was a time when oil and gas companies happily linked themselves to the idea of planet-wide environmental changes. "Each ...

Some two‑thirds of riders and drivers for food delivery and ride‑hailing apps in the UK may work in fear of "unfair feedback" ...

Zimbabwean farmer Freedom Sibanda used to sell his goats for US$30 each. Now, through crossbreeding techniques, one goat can ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that ...

When most people think of how governments stifle free speech, they think of censorship. That's when a government directly ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

In the southern flanks of the Indian Ocean and the central and eastern Pacific, just north of the Antarctic Circumpolar ...

A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed ...

Along with nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus, iron is essential for the growth of microscopic phytoplankton in the ocean ...