Society & Policy

Zimbabwe has linked the doctor to an investigation into illegal lion hunting, naming him on Sunday as a client of a safari operator accused of breaching regulations

More than seven years into Obama's administration, he finally partially fulfills a pledge to confront climate change

Changes to the final rule may assuage many industry and state concerns but the coal industry vows to fight

Wildlife conservationist David Macdonald studied Cecil the lion, whose killing made headlines around the world

New commercial satellites that promise constant close-ups of Earth are a boon to emergency responders and police but also raise privacy concerns

The results suggest the shot could help bring an end to West Africa's epidemic, World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on Friday

Mosquito season is getting longer among other buzz kills

An Oregon wastewater plant chooses to offset discharges by restoring riverside

Technology emerges to crowdsource levels of greenhouse gases and smog

The men, who face charges of poaching, were paid $50,000 by an American hunter who killed Cecil, the country's best-known lion

Private funding for the Arecibo Observatory—the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world—may be a poison pill

A recently unearthed burial in Jamestown, Va., from the early 1600s shows signs of Catholic rituals that are hard to explain in a colony set against the papacy