Ecology

Medical researchers are now uncovering clues that appear to link some cases of ALS to people’s proximity to lakes and coastal waters

The state hopes to save its rapidly disappearing coastline with a 50-year, $50 billion plan based on science that has never been tested

Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official said

Arctic ringed seals (Phoca hispida hispida) could soon get a critical habitat more than twice the size of California within the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.

A new study demonstrates the role of arthropods in clearing food waste from city streets

Cold temperatures that control insect pests may falter as the climate changes

Researchers working in New York City found that hungry urban arthropods help dispose of tons of edible trash. Allie Wilkinson reports
 

In 1989, I was working as an at editor at IEEE Spectrum when I was assigned to write a feature on Bhopal. The thirtieth anniversary of that industrial disaster that killed thousands is tonight.

On Thursday, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), an economic cartel responsible for approximately one third of global oil production, announced it would not decrease its rate of oil production.

Imagine if the world’s two largest polluters unilaterally decide to cut emissions of carbon dioxide, the ubiquitous gas responsible for the bulk of global warming.

The IUCN put the American eel on its Red List as Maine fishermen saw a deep cut in their fishing quota for the species

Melting ice in northern Canada may doom its polar bears