Ecology

On Earth Day, four climate trends reveal what's happening to our changing climate

The nation's biggest forest thinning project moves ahead in Arizona

The biggest waves seen in northern sea ice show how this vital cover can be crushed much faster than expected
 

Islands and shorelines remain spoiled, waiting for cleanup money

The 408 residents of Tuntutuliak Alaska, live at the mouth of the Kuskokwim River, 450 miles west of Anchorage over a mountain range and across a seemingly endless and treeless rolling tundra plain.

Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Canada to take on challenges of a changing Arctic

Inside and outside the kitchen, chefs have been known to get into the weeds–but the majority of culinary cannabis creations have been mainly limited to a few cakes, cookies, and of course, the archetypal pot brownie.

BP's Macondo well disaster was bad but U.S. oil addiction is worse

It's on the beach, in the marshes, on the continental shelf and under the deep sea—and still not all of the oil has been found

It's a sad fact that as members of a species become rarer they tend to suffer from inbreeding. This lack of genetic diversity can lead to birth defects and other problems, making a species even more endangered as time progresses.

The oil and gas industry surges past cows as top U.S. methane emitter

The evolutionarily unique frogs of Cameroon's Lake Oku have no tongues, claw-tipped toes and 12 full sets of chromosomes. What the Lake Oku clawed frogs (Xenopus longipes) don't have, however, is a lot of habitat in which to live.