Decades of development along L.A.'s steep canyons and hillsides, combined with prolonged drought, have left the city's landscapes highly vulnerable.

As the planet warms, many expected ecosystems to change faster and faster. Instead, a massive global study shows that species turnover has slowed by about one-third since the 1970s. Nature’s constant ...

Many ecologists hypothesize that, as global warming accelerates, change in nature must speed up. They assume that as temperatures rise and climatic zones shift, species will face local extinction and ...

Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, ...

Mixing hydroquinone with hydrogen peroxide creates a volatile instability within the beetle abdomen. Evidence proves the bombardier beetle survives up to 2 hours inside a toad’s stomach. Neutralizing ...

This Nature Outlook is editorially independent, produced with financial support from Yakult. About this content. We are not alone in our bodies. Each person is home to trillions of bacteria, viruses ...

As contact with the outdoors declines, discomfort with wild spaces is growing. Scientists tracking the rise of nature anxiety have some ideas on how to reconnect without feeling overwhelmed.

A new study reveals the connection between nature and well-being is more significant than previously thought. Researchers discovered 227 links or nonmaterial ‘pathways’ that benefit well-being, which ...

Taking a break from the hustle and bustle of the daily grind and heading outdoors is a great way to reconnect with nature. After all, getting outside invigorates your senses, allows you to experience ...