Increased flooding in the Tidal Basin due to a sinking sea wall is creating unfriendly conditions for the iconic tree.

California's cities have long been plagued by smog, but now some of the state's cleanest air is being polluted by smoke from climate change-fueled wildfires.

Poachers have killed more than 90 percent of Zambia's elephants since the 1950s. In response, villagers banded together to protect those in North Luangwa National Park last year.

Multiple proposed panelists have publicly expressed their skepticism of human-caused climate change.

New research concludes that warmer temperatures are slowing economic development in poorer countries.

A single study was the main catalyst for recent sunscreen ingredient bans, yet the science community is still debating those ingredients' effects on coral reefs—and even on sunscreen users.

Alison Van Eenennaam has spent the last decade explaining gene editing to critics who find fear more compelling than data. Is anybody listening?

A new study finds that air pollution caused by fossil fuel emissions is killing millions and disrupting the water cycle.

A recent paper has revealed the first direct link (in a non-human species) between female mating preference and intelligence.

Maps, long used by colonizers to dispossess native peoples, are becoming a tool for indigenous people to reclaim sovereignty over their lands.

A recent study in Malawi found that deforestation can reduce access to safe drinking water.

So-called "big weather" events in the central U.S. all have their roots in the area's geography.

Putting your cat out into nature may do significant damage to the local ecosystem.

New research suggests that recent moves to increase the numbers of sought-after trophy species might be ill-advised and counterproductive.

Advocates in Miami are working to ensure that minority and low-income communities have a say in how to spend a $400 million bond that's poised to make the city more resilient to climate change.

Even under moderate warming, Alpine glaciers would shed two-thirds of their present mass by the end of the century.

A global energy policy expert explains why one of the most oil-rich countries in the world is investing in nuclear and why Congress is concerned.

A conversation with marine biologist Gabriela Ochoa about th eimpacts of shark fishing in the La Mosquita region.

It's time for the climate science research enterprise to focus on integrating fundamental science inquiry with risk management.

New research shows that culling invasive, non-native animals on just 169 islands around the world over roughly the next decade could help save almost 10 percent of island-dwelling animals at risk of extinction.

Climate change may be supercharging mosquito evolution and making more of the world hospitable to the insects that can carry dangerous diseases.

Researchers have found that, in all, chytrid fungus-linked deaths have contributed to the decline of at least 501 amphibian species.

A new book documents the plastic pollution crisis, the affect of that pollution on wildlife and people, and initiatives that have been created to tackle the problem.

But pollution from the fossil fuel industry does.