Genuine artifacts tell the richest stories that fill our souls. And they fuel the scientific enterprise.

Halting deforestation and promoting restoration are at the core of strategies to confront the biodiversity and climate crises in tropical forests. Avoiding forest disturbances is also critically important but has received far less attention, and there is ...

Ancient mammals may have had an easier time moving across the Isthmus of Panama from north to south thanks to Mexico’s climate.

The federal government is sacrificing vital scientific capacity for ideological reasons—and hamstringing their own policymaking ability in the process

This revision of The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America, originally published in 1989, began as soon as the earlier book was in press. Since then, more than half again as many records of plant...

(1st UPDATE) Dr. Kent Carpenter provided expert written records on the environmental harms of China’s reclamation and destructive fishing practices in the West Philippine Sea

Podcast Episode · Can I Bug You? · June 24 · 31m

The return of the screwworm to Florida in 2016 was a surprise, but entomologists with the USDA and local, state, and international partners were prepared to respond. A new, in-depth report in the Jour...

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

Traumatic myiasis, the parasitic infestation by fly larvae in traumatic lesions of the tissues of living vertebrates, is a serious medical condition in humans and a welfare and economic issue in domes...

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An invasive bug species has made its way to Northern California wine regions. Now, the San Joaquin County Agriculture Commissioner's Office is putting out a warning.

Organizing California Academy of Sciences workers for better pay, benefits, job security and working conditions. Joining our colleagues in SEIU 1021, representing over fifty Bay Area nonprofits.

YouTube video by Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM)

The United States Department of Agriculture reported on April 17, 2026, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins and Lieutenant General William H. “Butch” Graham, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (...

Scenario modelling of nickel supply to meet demand to 2050 identifies extensive overlap between land and coastal mines and high-priority areas for terrestrial and marine conservation, and shows how th...

Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines.

Abstract. Shipworms are a group of wood-boring and wood-feeding bivalves of extraordinary economic, ecological and historical importance. Known in the lite

The peer review system that validates scientific research is trapped in a self-defeating cycle. A new mathematical model shows why—and what comes next.

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Large, ground-mounted photovoltaic solar energy projects (GPVs) are increasingly sited on former agricultural lands, creating opportunities to integra…