In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Just because scientists claim they have now brought back the extinct dire wolf, should we consider ‘bringing back’ more extinct species, or is it best to let sleeping dogs lie?

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in ...

Imagine a world where the polar bear, stranded on a shrinking ice floe, could stand before a court and demand justice for its ...

In the US, a bridge across a major 10-lane high speed freeway is being built at a cost of more than US$100 million so that ...

The Trump administration is looking to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species with ...

A variant of the bird flu virus, collected in 2016 and no longer in circulation, was just one mutation away from being able to bind to human receptors.

California's official animal inspires awe and holds cultural significance. But some wildlife officials say reintroducing ...

According to a study published in the journal Animals, the top reasons why 2,836 cats and dogs were given to a shelter include behavioral issues (28 percent), housing or moving challenges (18 percent) ...

In 2013, a wildfire tore through Yosemite National Park. Its slow recovery can teach Angelenos what to expect in the wake of the Eaton and Palisades fires of 2025.

A study by Dr. Matthew S. Taylor, published in the Journal of Osteoarchaeology, reports on the reanalysis of modified human ...

On a faraway planet, James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by living ...