The market is booming, but it's not making anybody rich. By Justin Fox.

On the trail of Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist who gave names to much of the natural world nearly 300 years ago.

It’s one of our most widely used natural resources, but it’s scarcer than you think.

Climate change denial has made numerous headlines in recent weeks. David Rose stated in The Daily Mail that there has been a global warming hiatus covered up by dubious science, Bret Stephens criticized the certitude of evidence in The New York Times, and Trump is rapidly making decisions based on his belief that humans have not impacted climate change.

This is what a melting pot looks like.

Can learning the variables in the signal strength equation empower you to find better reception? One day, your life may depend upon it.

We now know diesel vehicles pollute more than they should to deadly effect everywhere, but the real scandal is government foot-dragging, says Olive Heffernan

It has been likened to a strip tease, with the monsoon playing the role of an alluring dancer, Met officials, who announce the monsoon’s advance, providing the drum roll for the performance, and India’s 1.3 billion-strong population acting as the audience… By Sudha Ramachandran.

Scientists have found a high rate of tumors in flatfish in the Baltic Sea that could be linked to old munitions. Weaponry dumped in the sea at the end of World War II is leaching chemicals toxic to fish - and people.

…and why Seattle may be the Corvid Capital of the World. By James Ross Gardner.

Far from being the special result of insular evolution, Komodo dragons are the last survivors of a group of huge lizards that ranged over much of Australasia. By Hanneke Meijer.

Men are often portrayed in the company of dogs. They hunt together, run happily side by side, and ride shoulder to shoulder in mud-splattered pickups—the p

Engineers have developed a new way to get toxic micropollutants, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals, out of water.

Seoul’s ambitious Skygarden – which revives a disused elevated 1970s highway with 24,000 plants – is opening

Paleontologists calculated the bite force of the fearsome prehistoric predators and provided more evidence that they were opportunistic scavengers. By Nicholas St. Fleur.

Signals from violent earthquakes are helping reveal the landscape of the planet’s insides. By Paula Koelemeijer.

Some of the world’s most vulnerable live in the tropics, where sea rise will cause a sharp rises in floods. By John Upton.

A new book profiles people who have devoted their lives to protecting the world’s at-risk animals. By Colette Harris.

Ladybugs are famous for their spotted wing cases. But researchers in Japan were interested in what was happening under that colorful exterior: How delicate wings were folding origami-like into place.

Jamie Scott