Over the past few months, massive swarms of locusts, one of which occupied an area more than three times the size of New York City, have devoured crops across the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, leaving an estimated 20 million people at risk of famine. The first generation’s eggs are starting to hatch, and now even bigger swarms are forming, threatening countries from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Yemen, Iran, Pakistan and India, “representing an unprecedented threat to food security and livelihoods,” says the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

In 2014, Giles Nicholson was battling the growing year from hell. A mild winter followed by a warm, wet spring had turbocharged a ferocious mass of cow parsley, nettles and dense grass along the hundreds of miles of road his team maintains for Dorset council. Austerity meant there was barely enough money to pay for repeated cuttings to hold back the matted swards. Complaints poured in about messy roadsides.

A look at what would happen if humans disappeared from Earth. How would ecology adapt and change to cope with the lack of human beings, and what will the earth look like into a future without humans.

The beloved Morgan Freeman is film director, philanthropist, and one of the greatest actors of our time, and he now has another title being attributed to his name; Beekeeper.

Surveys of reptiles in central Panama show the ripple effects of an ecological crisis

Scientists explore why some lotus leaves lie smooth and flat, but others are deeply ruffled.

Last year at this time, Westbrook, Maine, made headlines when a 100-yard-wide ice circle appeared on the surface of the Presumpscot River, drawing thousands of people to see the phenomenon for themselves. Its popularity on social media and its resemblance to the moon helped make it the poster child for ice circles, and even now, a year later, locals wait with anticipation in hopes that it will form again.

Findings are culmination of five-year study of first licensed release of beavers into wild in England in more than 400 years

A study led by the University of Turku has found that small, fiercely predatory damselflies catch and eat hundreds of thousands of insects during a single summer – in an area surrounding just a sin

Thanks to captive breeding efforts in Pittsburgh, the rails have returned to the forests of the Pacific.

Just when you thought spiders couldn't get any more terrifying.

Recovering the endangered critters will test society’s willingness to let nature reclaim a landscape.

Shipworms are known for boring into wood and digesting it, but scientists found a new species with a very different diet.

The firefly beetle is not only a new species but also part of an entirely new genus and subfamily of bioluminscent beetle.

Contrary to what some scientists have suggested, plants don’t think, feel or learn; consciousness is a characteristic of animals alone, experts say.

New research finds micro-plastic particles in everything from Arctic sea ice to snow in the Alps to rain in the Rockies. There is almost no research about the health effects of micro-plastics on humans.

But it’s not clear that eating ‘people food’ is necessarily bad for urban birds.

Human-driven land clearing and climate change are sending plants extinct at a rapid rate, risking a devastating biodiversity crash.

South Australian Museum. Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year. All photographs must be of natural fauna, flora or natural land formations and must have been taken in the ANZANG bioregion.

Scientists conclude the major factor is habitat loss driven by human activity.