environment

With Christmas just around the corner, you're probably finalizing your dinner plans and wrapping those last few presents before sticking them under the tree.

“Vitamin A deficiency [VAD] is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children worldwide,” the American Academy of Ophthalmology noted last year.

Eight years after Rachel Carson's bestseller Silent Spring sold half a million copies and turned environmental protection into a cultural juggernaut, Earth Day was inaugurated as an annual event.

A serious infectious disease nearly wiped out a beloved species in the United States. Scientists have now discovered how to bring it back. Should they restore this once prevalent species to its former glory?

In 1967, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the best albums ever made. One of its hit songs was titled "Getting Better," and part of the chorus goes like this:

Plastic pollution of our oceans, especially in Asia (See Compostable Forks Don't Work And Paper Straws Are Nasty.

I try, often successfully, to spend at least 30 minutes a day riding my Peloton; and on those days that I succeed I have had a great workout and deserve a reward.

It has been a tough decade for the honeybee; first they were suddenly dying due to something called Colony Collapse Disorder and wh

In full disclosure, I have a weakness for jellyfish because I find them to be so beautifully graceful. Who knew they were natural born killers?

It doesn't matter how bad or wildly untrue an idea might be; it is a near certainty that one can find an academic somewhere who is willing to embrace it.