Bushfires are still raging in Australia, particularly along the east coast of New South Wales (NSW) and Queensland.

Global Wildlife Conservation and partners Southern Institute of Ecology and Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research have rediscovered a species lost to science since 1990 called a silver-backed chevrotain—a deer-like species that is the size of a rabbit, has a silver sheen, and has been hanging on in a region of Vietnam ravaged by poaching by snares.

Adding energy to any material, such as by heating it, almost always makes its structure less orderly.

Many of the world’s marine fish spend their first days or weeks feeding and developing at the ocean surface.

A small, inexpensive sensor could save lives by triggering an alarm when children or pets are left alone in vehicles.

An Iowa State University study delves deep below the surface to find how cover crops such as winter rye affect soil microbes a meter underground.

Satellite monitoring shows continued recovery of the ozone hole.

The grasslands of the Canadian Prairies are a hidden gem for bird watchers, with millions of migratory birds passing through the area each year.

The Arctic is thawing. The Northwest Passage is changing. More ships are moving through the waterway.

A NASA-funded study suggests winter carbon emissions in the Arctic may be adding more carbon into the atmosphere each year than is taken up by Arctic vegetation, marking a stark reversal for a region that has captured and stored carbon for tens of thousands of years.