Environment

Extreme environments offer them an unexpected paradise, and now researchers want to get a head count.

A researcher's quest to understand a mysterious mass extinction leads to cud-chewing culprits.

Bolivia's Lake Uru Uru faces an uncertain future: a growing city, toxic runoff, and drought worsened by climate change.

An analysis of the 10-foot-long appendages shows that as the Arctic warms, narwhal diets are changing, and their bodies are accumulating more mercury.

The population is healthy overall, but a mysterious contagion has researchers looking for answers.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

A smoky-sweet flavor, courtesy of an invasive species.

Tristan da Cunha was first inhabited to keep an eye on Napoleon; now residents are looking out for lobsters.

And a scary lesson on humility and respect for the natural world.

A mystery microbe found at Olduvai Gorge inspired scientists to speculate about the origins of cooking.

Ships, farms, and hotels were left high and dry when 90 percent of the water disappeared.

How Germany's Lusatian Lakes District is remaking an entire region through broad-scale landscape re-engineering.

The perspective made George Steinmetz an “accidental environmentalist.”

Rising seas are claiming land, changing lives, and transforming our relationship with nature.

Local insect farms could save lemurs, baobabs, and more.