At least 11 North Atlantic right whales were born this calving season — fewer than researchers studying the critically endangered species had hoped, the New England Aquarium reported. There are only ...

According to global urbanist Greg Clark, 55 years from now, the world’s population will have peaked, and nearly all of it ...

Cadomin Cave is Alberta’s largest known bat hibernaculum. The cave, among the largest in the Canadian Rockies, is a critical ...

The canine population is expected to be its highest - 1.5 lakh - almost the double of 75,000 counted during the previous ...

In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the ...

Columbia's recent special census has reported a 17.26% population increase since 2020, which will net an estimated $6.4 million in additional revenue.

Gray whales, a signature of the Washington coast, are dying by the thousands, victims of declines in Arctic sea ice.

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

A study published in the journal Nature Communications reveals that the global population, particularly in rural areas, may have been vastly underestimated for decades. According to The Independent, ...

For thousands of years, the Sahara was more than just a desert: it was a thriving land of lakes, grasslands, and human life. Now, DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummies has revealed a truth: a lost human ...

Kolyuchin Island, a remote and desolate landmass in Russia's Chukchi Sea, has evolved from a site of human habitation to ... on studying the polar bear population and documenting the effects ...