President Obama welcomes dozens of young achievers in science and technology to the White House.

Rwanda has raised the price of a permit to see mountain gorillas to $750 per day starting June 1, 2012, up from $500. While the price is steep, the program each year raises millions of dollars in revenue for gorilla conservation, including $8 million i…

A decision on hydrofracking in New York State — its scope, its timing or whether it will happen at all — now seems much more uncertain, and the approval process has slowed considerably.

A chance call made Joy Reidenberg, a researcher at Mount Sinai School of Medicine who has performed hundreds of dissections on various mammals, a TV celebrity.

No explanation has emerged for the unusually high number of dolphins landing on Cape Cod beaches.

Along with Bill McKibben and a small cadre of passionate environmental activists, Kelly Blynn co-founded the climate activism group “350.” 350 exemplifies the power of online networks combined with activism and has coordinated some of the largest and m…

At the core of New York City Pigeon Rescue Central are pigeon lovers, animal activists and eccentrics who dedicate themselves to the much-maligned birds’ welfare.

Innovative research has made a long-extinct katydid—which inhabited the world of dinosaurs like stegosaurus, allosaurus, and diplodocus—sing again. The discovery of an incredibly well-preserved fossil of a new species of katydid, dubbed Arc…

In 2009 researchers discovered 19,232 species new to science, most of these were plants and insects, but 148 were amphibians. Even as amphibians face unprecedented challenges—habitat loss, pollution, overharvesting, climate change, and a lethal d…

A program will encourage people to drive less or give up cars altogether, with far less sweat.