These are the times that try men’s souls, wrote Thomas Paine in the opening of the first of a series of essays collectively ...

The new species were found in the East China Sea, a body of water off the eastern coast of China, south of Japan and South ...

On Rossel Island, Kraus found Dendrelaphis melanarkys, or the black net tree snake. This 4-foot, 11-inch reptile is easier to ...

In the face of mounting threats from climate change, mixed species forests have been called an "insurance policy" for UK ...

OFIS Arhitekti designs the Vintgar Gorge entrance lodge, an essential and sustainable structure in the heart of the Slovenian ...

Trees are emotive, but a political obsession with planting trees is getting in the way of proper maintenance of our ancient ...

Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is for geologists what the tropics are for ecologists: an opportunity for an unparalleled ...

Science writer Henry Gee paints a less horrific but equally worrying picture of humanity’s future in his book The Decline and ...

Imagine wandering through a dark, silent forest at midnight, when suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shimmer with an eerie green light. Shapes emerge—tiny mushrooms glowing like embers, ...

A colossal squid has been caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers ...

Few spring scenes are as spectacular as the annual display provided by dogwood trees in the Ozark woodlands. Inconspicuous for most of the year, these diminutive denizens of our forests outdo their ...

On a recent walk around Lake Junaluska, I spotted a cluster of Johnny-jump-ups flourishing in the decaying heartwood of a ...