The classification means greater habitat protection for California's mountain lions.

A deceptively simple question underlies many global environmental policies: where, exactly, are the world’s forests? A new study suggests the answer depends heavily on which map one consults—and that ...

A solar storm is a catchall term that describes any disturbance in the sun that involves the violent ejection of solar material into space. This can come in the form of coronal mass ejections, where ...

A bizarre fossil called Prototaxites, which was the largest life-form on land 400 million years ago, may have been a completely unknown form of multicellular life, according to a new study.

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Modern conservation technology has one simple goal, even though achieving it is anything but simple: to spot a threat or threatened species instantly, right where it happens—even in places with no ...

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Small hamlet recognised as England’s first dark sky community - Thorington Street in Dedham Vale has been handed the accolade by DarkSky International.

Correspondence to Dr Rachel Chester, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK; r.chester{at}uea.ac.uk Objectives To (i) ...

There is an emerging convergence between atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and cancer, driven by shared risk factors and overlapping pathophysiologic mechanisms. Traditional factors, such as ...