Society & Policy

California coast visitors are now 91 percent less likely to be bitten by a great white than they were in 1950, in part because beach populations of humans have risen dramatically

Today would have been my mentor's 80th birthday. Happy Birthday Nick and thanks for showing me that mentors really do matter.

Pharma companies—and maybe, eventually, the Supreme Court—will ensure that it only becomes harder to execute people with drugs in America

And why security experts warn that this is a terrible idea

Combating chemical poison aflatoxin hinges on boosting fungal growth on African crops

A Paris science meeting this week is designed to prepare the ground for highly anticipated UN climate talks in December

Heroin overdose deaths in the United States nearly quadrupled between 2002 and 2013, fueled by lower costs as well as increased abuse of prescription opiate painkillers

"Tiburones," on the Discovery Channel in early July, highlights growing U.S.–Cuban ocean science partnerships

The ethical threat posed by Adderall and other drugs that improve motivation

Despite the work of conservationists, poaching and habitat destruction are still major problems in North Sumatra

Marine scientist Don Boesch on the fight to restore ecosystems damaged by the Deepwater Horizon disaster

The Democratic Republic of the Congo needs aggressive protections against foreign investors who want to turn the second-largest forest stock on Earth into farmland