A mushroom is analogous to a flower on a plant — it’s the reproductive organ of a fungus, which protects and distributes fungal spores. Mushrooms are critical part of our ecosystems. For humans and…

Programs for the “three Rs” of “replace, reduce, refine” (Russell & Burch 1959) aim to make science more compatible with animal protection. This article draws attention to a major obstacle to that end...

This year’s fast moving, virtually irrepressible wildfire events are not the seasonal burns of decades past.

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The Cheetah Cub Cam streams live from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia.

Inquest under way into why President Lula’s success in curbing Amazon deforestation has not led to success at polls

On two wondrous new books by Ali Frances, Adriana Picker, Lane Selman, and Margarett Waterbury

Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses

Record-setting warm waters slosh eastward across the tropical Pacific, forming El Niño. This recurrent climate pattern reconfigures severe weather worldwide, and with it, the global economy. Scientist...

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

Native only to the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the rare apes were found thousands of kilometres away in Odisha state