Science

Railways can be deadly for animals ranging from elephants to grizzlies and frogs, but we’re just beginning to understand the causes and solutions.

What if we’d listened to the researchers who first warned us about plastic pollution in the 1970s?

Asking why elephants travel to specific areas can help us to better understand and reduce human-elephant conflict.

Citizen scientists can use simple tools to study the DNA of plants and animals in their communities and help contribute to our understanding of the world.

Scientist Ellen Wohl explains why the administration’s decision to rewrite a key component of the Clean Water Act is scientifically unsound and dangerous.

¿Como afectará el cambio climático las lluvias y la caída de nieve en su comunidad? Trazamos un mapa de cómo se verá el mundo bajo las proyecciones actuales del cambio climático.

Many ecologically important insects spend most of their lives in streams, but new research shines a light on how humans put them at risk.

Ecologist Jodi Hilty explains what conservationists have learned about linking critical habitat areas together.

For manatees and other hard-to-spot species, the answer may lie in the minute particles of DNA they leave behind as they move through their environments.

Dr. Warren Washington, who helped pioneer climate modeling, has seen science advance, even as policies to meet our climate challenges have lagged.