Costa RIca is home to roughly 5 percent of the planet's biodiversity, and golf courses that fit with their natural surrounds.

On a small island in the Baltic Sea, a cache of ancient wolf bones is reshaping how I think about the earliest encounters ...

The Pinellas Trail runs right through town, offering miles of car-free biking and walking. You’ll see locals using it for everything from morning jogs to grocery runs. Honeymoon Island State Park and ...

The slender-billed curlew, a migratory bird last glimpsed in Morocco in 1995, is now confirmed extinct. “The extinction of ...

The dental development of modern bears does not follow the typical pattern seen in most mammals. The reason lies millions of ...

At Pine Trees in September, volunteer divers recovered an estimated 6,000 feet of fishing line and about 45 pounds of lead in a single dive, surfacing only when their air ran low. In ODA’s account of ...

Africa's Limpopo River, an S-shaped wonder, uniquely crosses the Tropic of Capricorn twice. This vital transboundary waterway ...

The Death's-head hawk moth, recognizable by its skull-like thorax marking, is a harmless yet intriguing insect found across Africa, Asia, and Europe.

Scientists have found that human-honeyguide cooperation is used mainly as a recreational activity nowadays. Despite increased education and job opportunities, honey-hunting can survive "without ...

A new warning from global health experts is raising alarms about the potential for a bird flu pandemic that could outpace the devastation of COVID-19, if the H5N1 virus mutates to spread easily ...

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New tank syndrome involves a dangerous buildup of toxins. Discover what causes it, how it hurts fish, and how to prevent it ...