A federal appeals court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency’s right to regulate air pollution under the Clean Air Act.
A federal appeals court upholds the Environmental Protection Agency’s right to regulate air pollution under the Clean Air Act.
The second of the two controversial bird flu papers is published in Science, revealing that just five mutations can render the virus transmissible between ferrets.
Rising ocean acidity along the California coast may wreak havoc in the region’s oyster populations.
Algal blooms are appearing under the ice in the Arctic Ocean in areas thought to receive too little light to support photosynthetic life.
Researchers rediscover a giant insect, thought to have gone extinct a century ago, and plan to reintroduce it to its native island off the coast of Australia.
In pondering genome structure and function, evolutionary geneticist Laurence Hurst has arrived at some unanticipated conclusions about how natural selection has molded our DNA.
Plant pests are evolving to outsmart common herbicides, costing farmers crops and money.
Ancient bacteria living in deep-sea sediments are alive—but with metabolisms so slow that it’s hard to tell.
Almost 10 percent of mammals in the Western Hemisphere won’t be able to shift their territories in time to avoid the consequences of climate change.