Formally known as Achatinella apexfulva, the 14-year-old Hawaiian tree snail was the last of its kind on the planet.

Scientists discover how the marsupials are the only known species producing cube-shaped faeces.

Delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Ecuador to discuss efforts to repair the ozone layer, and the return of a banned chemical will be on the agenda.

“Pretty freaky”

John Archibald praises a compelling guide to the past 3 billion years — and its molecular historians.

CFCs, the harmful ozone-depleting chemicals banned back in the 1980s, are experiencing a mysterious comeback

First Documented Person Born On The Continent Of Antarctica

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown environmental source of the element

It's an ozone mystery, as well as a threat to one of the planet's great environmental success stories.

A writer comes face-to-face with the cat deep in the Amazon jungle and left with a new understanding of its surprising resilience to poaching and habitat loss. 

On the 20th anniversary of the graph that galvanized climate action, it is time to speak out boldly

Where there is light, organisms will follow.

A potentially fatal fungus infection found in more than two dozen snake species in Europe and the United States could be lethal to serpents across the globe, a new study finds.

A ceaseless drone of unclear origin rolls imperceptibly beneath our feet, and might unlock great secrets if we understood it better.

A population of about 800 apes living in the Sumatran mountains are genetically distinct, a new study says.

Xinjiang has nearly 20,000 glaciers, half of China's total. They're all receding at a record pace — and will continue to melt, some scientists warn, even if global temperatures stop rising.

In 2017, in an era of satellites, big data, and digital maps that appear instantly on your phone, the world can feel very known. New Views, a new atlas by Alastair Bonnett, a professor of social geography at Newcastle University, is full of information about this planet: its forests and undersea cables; its air traffic, ants, migrants, and happiness; its gas prices, guns, and asteroid strikes. This collection of 50 unique world maps—“beautiful, enthralling and thrilling,” Bonnett writes—aims to make us look again at the world we think we know and consider it anew.

A journey from the source of the Nile in central Africa to its mouth near Cairo, charting the problems faced by the river and those who depend on it.

South Pacific landmass may have been closer to land level than once thought, providing pathways for animals and plants

Canadian rocks that are almost 4 billion years old contain clues that organisms were already around on the young planet.