Social interactions are crucial for the survival of most animal species. Living in groups helps animals spot predators, find food and raise more successful young than they could alone. Conventional ...

Pittsburgh-based Alcoa will pay the Australian government a settlement the company put at $36 million for “unlawfully” ...

Ancient Peruvians used bird guano to fertilize maize and build a major civilization in the Chincha Valley in Peru.

The prospect of heat waves without end, increasingly destructive floods, relentless drought, rapidly rising sea levels, and the risk of “point of no return” tipping points require humanity to swiftly ...

Officials in Argentina are considering a reform to the country’s glacier protection law, a change critics say would weaken environmental regulations and clear the way for expanded mining in some of ...

Despite hosting huge hydropower plants, Amazon people still pay high energy tariffs — so they found another way.

Protecting vulture populations in Africa presents some unique challenges for conservationists. These slow-breeding and ecologically vital scavengers range over vast territories and are vulnerable to ...

Some parts of the rainforest in northwestern Ecuador used to be so dense and impenetrable that only a few hundred people were ...

Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests that in the tropics, it is also a product of ...

Indigenous leader Fábio Titiah recalls the night he walked the trail to the village of Água Vermelha, in the ...

Indonesian scientists have attached a satellite tag onto an endangered pygmy blue whales for the first time by drone. The tag ...

The Amazon Rainforest is approaching a dangerous threshold. Scientists warn that continued deforestation could push the world ...