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When the sugary-sweet masuku plum is in season in Malawi, locals go wild over it. “They will eat it while traveling, in the bath, on the streets … they just eat,” said Richard Swirah, an…

Talking about Climate Change is a Political Winner.

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals

Beneath Miami’s skyscrapers, a colony of corals defies expectations—and offers insight into other undersea urban ecosystems.

The rainforests of the Congo Basin are the planet’s largest forested carbon sink: as these 3.3 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles) of trees in Central Africa breathe in carbon dioxide...

Beneath Miami’s skyscrapers, a colony of corals defies expectations—and offers insight into other undersea urban ecosystems.

A local chapter of a national frog survey convenes at a storied Massachusetts cemetery.

Beneath Miami’s skyscrapers, a colony of corals defies expectations—and offers insight into other undersea urban ecosystems.

About STAT In November 2015, STAT was launched as a new national media brand focused on health, medicine, and life sciences. Since then, we have grown to

There comes a time in every skeleton’s death when, upon their being discovered in a grave hugging another skeleton, modern people start foaming at the mouth guessing at what that relationship might ha...

The how, what, and why of RDAs, nutrition labels, and dietary goals.

In the early 2000s, Alannah Acaq Hurley began working over her college summer breaks to spread awareness among rural communities in Southeast Alaska about a project called Pebble Mine: a pit 4 kilomet...

With their dense mats of submerged roots, mangrove forests hold down shorelines worldwide like a coastal Swiss Army knife. They’re a nursery for juvenile fish and a home for important species in and…

Costa Rica’s famous coffee industry says it’s nearly ready for EUDR. The upcoming European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires that all coffee shipped into the EU not come from recently…

In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.

The Logan Science Journalism Program, founded in 1986, offers science journalists, writers, editors, and broadcast journalists a chance to forget about story deadlines and immerse themselves in basic ...

Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.

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What urban wildlife can teach us about cognition, survival, and how to be good neighbors.

Whale shark babies seem to find safety in dangerous oxygen minimum zones.

Whale shark babies seem to find safety in dangerous oxygen minimum zones.

ALT: a cartoon character sits on a bus with an emergency exit sign behind him

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

Researchers and activists are archiving websites and data because “policymakers and the public need good information to make the best policy."

On Long Island, a group of Shinnecock women are nursing A bay back to health and, in the process, reclaiming traditions.

A research project to keep tabs on Sharp-tailed Grouse shows the potential benefits of a promising but elusive technology.

The recent charging of prominent documentarians in British Columbia court is raising important questions about the ethics of wildlife videography.

Wildlife experts in US west have found small aircraft are ideal for protecting humans and livestock from predators

Preemie sharks that would otherwise die get by with a little help from a human-made womb.

Companies whose futures depend on plastic production are trying to persuade the federal government to allow them to put the label “recyclable” on plastic shopping bags and other items virtually guaran...

For many people across sub-Saharan Africa, Cleome gyandra, commonly known as the spider plant, is not food: it’s a weed. A tall, leggy plant with stars of almond-shaped leaves and clusters of white fl...