A new study is shedding light on the importance of one critical resource for Andean bears living in the dry mountain forests of Peru: water. 

According to a new NTNU study, poor cardiorespiratory fitness could increase your risk of a future heart attack, even if you have no symptoms of a lifestyle illness today.

Patients with type 2 diabetes should be prescribed physical activity to control blood sugar and improve heart health. 

There is a growing global trend to consider pets as part of the family.

World’s ~16,000 desalination plants discharge 142 million cubic meters of brine daily — 50% more than previously estimated; Enough in a year to cover Florida under a foot (30.5 cm) of brine.

Given the pressures that pollinators face in agricultural land, cities could play an important role in conserving pollinators, according to a new study. 

Scientists have long speculated that our planet’s climate system is intimately linked to the Earth’s celestial motions.

U of T Engineering researchers have examined dust from homes in Fort McMurray, Alta., for evidence of harmful toxins left in the aftermath of the devastating 2016 wildfire. 

Sea level rise puts coastal areas at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, but new research shows they face other climate-related threats as well. 

The images shook the world: Ethiopian children dying of starvation as their emaciated parents looked on, victims of the food shortage and hunger crisis that struck the drought- and conflict-riddled nation from 1983 to 1985.