The town council in Trigueros del Valle, a municipality of about 330 people in the Castile and León region, voted unanimously to define dogs and cats as “non-human residents”, giving them rights similar to men and women.

Wheat and other crops are expected to have lower zinc content under higher atmospheric concentrations of CO2, leading to millions of nutrient deficiencies around the world.

Jack Grieve, a professor in Forensic Linguistics at Aston University in England, has been tweeting out maps of the U.S. with geotagged data from Twitter that show where in the country we are using which swearwords.

The modern (post 1900) rate of extinction, even by conservative estimates, is exceptionally high, is increasing, and a mass extinction is underway, according to a new paper by Gerardo Ceballos published in Science Advances.