For decades, the oil industry, farming and lax oversight have contributed to a dead zone in the gulf.

A program admits students if they study humanities instead of the traditional pre-medical school curriculum.

An American oil spill consultant suggests the Chinese spill was larger than the government admits.

A gap in the fossil record preceding the Cambrian has ignited intense interest among geologists.

Jane Brox’s narrative is in many ways a social history, told through man’s relationship to light.

Dr. Sterling discusses the complex species interactions that could help explain the high predator to prey ratios, and describes the effort to capture, tag and recapture sea turtles as the expedition winds down.

Christopher Monckton, the Third Viscount Monckton of Benchley, debated Eric Bates, executive editor of Rolling Stone magazine, on the topic of climate change.

Video scenes of the latest slaughter of marine mammals in a bloody cove are interpreted very differently by different factions.

The American Museum of Natural History Explorer provides a GPS and detailed information on its displays.

Even as a boy scout's mother was struggling to keep warm, she could appreciate what she had been missing by staying in hotels.

The Continent has generally resisted genetically modified food, but small amounts of meat and dairy from cloned animals are already being consumed.

Enbridge was warned in January by federal regulators about insufficient monitoring of the pipeline that officials say leaked more than one million gallons of oil into a major waterway this week.

A hormone spray prescribed to stop hot flashes in menopausal women has caused breasts to sprout in children who were inadvertently exposed to it through skin contact with women using it.

A lack of resources and organizational problems are hampering America’s ability to identify nuclear weapons used in a terrorist attack, researchers say.

This Greek-inspired dish makes a hearty meal rich in nutritious spinach.

The team says that its dark brown calf, named Got, is the only representative of a lineage that goes back 300 years.

Experts are pondering issues raised after a trial found that a vaginal gel could help women avoid infection.

By halving sulfur levels in No. 4 heating oil, New York City could make a dent in air pollution and respiratory illnesses.

Dr. Sterling and a team of researchers are trying to understand why there is a higher biomass of predators than prey at Palmyra Atoll.

A great climate scientist is defined by his successful forecast of warming and his acceptance that another forecast was flawed.