Alt: Bilbo Baggins giving his party speech. "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

Government resilience campaign aims to ensure people can cope in a national disaster, in order to free resources for most vulnerable

We can’t actually keep on like this

in Chicago, increasing tree cover = fewer human deaths

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Researchers say it is ‘quite wild’ to see fires at such high northern latitudes happen so early in the year

The Language of Liars, S.L. Huang (Tordotcom 978-1-25040-533-3, $24.99, 176pp, hc) April 2026. The Language of Liars opens with a young linguist’s musings on all the different words for “doubt” tha…

...where males go to sleep for the night

...there are some alternative for confirmed lawn-lovers

'It’s really been a joy to reunite the soil with the plants that belong here,' Christopher Smee says of removing his lawn and planting California natives.

The institution is opting to redirect millions spent annually on carbon offsets toward campus sustainability initiatives instead.

The urgency of the transition to a low-carbon world requires a fast decarbonization of the electricity generation system. Such a transition will change…

Endocrine-disrupting substances (EDS) are common and pervasive in our environment and pose a serious risk to both human and animal health. Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs) have been associated with a variety of detrimental human health effects, ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Insects interact with plants not only for nutrition but also to actively seek plant specialized metabolites (PSMs) for chemical defense, reproduction, and self-medication—a behavior known as pharmaco...