The typical New Year’s resolution is about losing weight. However, there are other aspects of our health that perhaps deserve more attention. One, for instance, is keeping a healthy mind. Alzheimer’s disease is a terrible affliction of the mind and …

Some 60,000 volunteers have scoured the continent for birds in the 112th annual bird count organized by the National Audubon Society.

ScienceDaily (Dec. 2, 2011) — The North Atlantic Current — popularly known as the Gulf Stream — warms Norway and Northern Europe. It is the chaos of the seas that warms the country, researchers have discovered. If its waters flowed smoothly north a…

Bee colony collapse disorder is a worldwide phenomenon decimating bee colonies worldwide. Bees, you see, are pretty important. Without them much of our food can’t be pollinated. And the true reason why America lost about one third of its bees last year…

Ohio has suspended operations at five deep wells used to dispose of fracking-related fluids after nearly a dozen earthquakes in the town of Youngstown over the past year, the latest sign of local unease over the booming shale gas industry.
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Sarah Laskow is a freelance writer who has covered environmental issues for Grist, GOOD, and Newsweek.com, among others. Raised in New Jersey and educated at Yale where she studied literature, Sarah now lives across the river in Manhattan with her part…

Found throughout Central and South America and parts of the Caribbean, the green iguana (Iguana iguana) is a large, mostly herbivorous lizard.

For a scientist studying the hybridization of quail in Mexico, who better to herd the birds than a shepherd dog?

Royal Dutch Shell maintains that the oil could not have not have traveled from the big spill at its Bonga oil field last month.

A deeper look at the role of science in fostering human progress.