Advocates argue that we need trees now more than ever and that an increase in the timber harvest doesn’t make sense.

Thousands of us will be buying daffodils right now to brighten up our homes with a spring-fresh yellow colour, but many of us ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

A recent study underscores how humanity’s success in extinguishing fires has allowed dead wood and other flammable material ...

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Human Rights Watch welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights on ...

Watermen are asking state agencies to pause the practice of using sewage sludge as fertilizer. They worry that toxic “forever chemicals” may accumulate in oysters, crabs, clams and fish.

Rising temperatures could reduce trees' ability to photosynthesize. Scientists are trying to figure out just how close we are to that point.

When downed trees are attacked by beetles, the wood becomes more flammable, demonstrating another way insects can alter the ...

What the dodo symbolizes has changed over time. It has been, variously, a parable, a joke and a warning. When we see it as an ...