The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission. Will this enlightened approach prevail?

Scientists have studied trees depicted in various works of art and found they follow relatively simple mathematical rules also found in branching patterns in nature.

Fishlake National Forest's Pando, touted as the world's largest tree, is at the center of a new online documentary, as ...

Large, undisturbed forests are better for harboring biodiversity than fragmented ... fragmented tracts of land or larger, continuous landscapes. The study, published in Nature and led by U-M ...

Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain is a meditation on the Cairngorms. Decades on, its quiet wisdom remains urgent, reminding ...

Is our lifespan primarily dictated by our genetics, or do our behaviour and environment play the more important role?

open image in gallery Experts fear that the deadly measles outbreak in West Texas could be much larger than reported ... Texas says that, due to the nature of the measles virus, additional ...

Megalodon was likely a long, streamlined predator, not a bulky giant. Scientists compared its bones with modern sharks.

Alternatively, if the megaberg is carrying a lot of mud and sediment, this could add nutrients to the water, providing more food for sea life. A23a is symbolic of a more global and far more ...

Biodiversity is the variation in living forms and can be measured in ways that include the number of species, functional variety of species, evenness of species distribution or genetic diversity ...

Marine biology is the study of life in the oceans and brackish waters, which ranges from archaea and bacteria to marine mammals, and includes organisms such as corals that affect the shape of the ...

An exhibition at the Broad goes beyond the German artist’s ecological projects, offering an expansive if incomplete portrait ...