Plants don’t have brains and nervous systems like ours. They can send and receive signals, but that seems to be automatic.

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The groups argue that the mine would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened plants and animals, and ...

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Their unusual story began about a hundred years ago. Now, as they head to the high north, an ambitious new chapter is being ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

I’m drawn from my bed at dawn, lured by something deep and impossible to ignore – an evolutionary impulse, perhaps – to the ...

In this week's issue of our environmental newsletter, we find out how much longer you could live (and the emissions you could ...

I n 1989, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) published a promising study claiming that houseplants purify indoor air. Its results suggested that certain comm ...

A public health alert issued by the New Mexico Department of Health on Jan. 27 urged anyone who consumed wildlife from Holloman Lake, near Alamogordo, NM, between 2010 and 2024, to consult with their ...