Pity the salamanders.

Scientists are usually pictured on screen as sober and humorless types, pre-occupied with numbers and empty facts

Harmful algal blooms can cause big problems in coastal areas and lakes across the United States.

For ferry-goers gliding through the calm and sometimes narrow channels of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands, the views can be idyllic: craggy coastlines and placid inlets set against lush forested mountains.

It’s easy to think of cities as being the enemy of nature. 

Do you eat fruits and vegetables? What about nuts? If so, you can thank an insect pollinator, usually a honey bee.

Antibiotics are powerful medication that are used to fight infections, but the ongoing and well publicized issues with resistance has made the search for new medicines critical to human health.  

A tidepool crustacean’s ability to survive oxygen deprivation though it lacks a key set of genes raises the possibility that animals might have more ways of dealing with hypoxic environments than had been thought.

A newly comprehensive study shows that melting of Himalayan glaciers caused by rising temperatures has accelerated dramatically since the start of the 21st century.

A new study shows how marine life around Antarctica returned after the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs.