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In Virginia’s Elizabeth River, the unremarkable-looking mummichog has survived decades of industrial pollution—but the price it has paid has worrying implications for human health.

We broke phosphorus. And the cost of breaking the phosphorus cycle is not just looming scarcity, but also rampant pollution.

Killer whales that feast on seals and hunt in small packs are thriving while their widely beloved siblings are dying out.

Every year, as many as 400 million people are infected with life-threatening diseases by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. It wasn’t always so dangerous.

Trees now cover most of the exclusion zone, and climate change is making them more likely to burn.

For centuries, scientists have obsessed over a primordial blob that can shape-shift, clone itself, and live indefinitely.

Inside the U.S. and Panama’s long-running collaboration to rid an entire continent of a deadly disease.

Samoa’s population of “little dodos” is dwindling down to nothing, but the appetites of wealthy people keep putting these rare birds at risk.

Even as it disappears, the “bomb spike” is revealing the ways humans have reshaped the planet.

To change the fate of the kittiwake, scientists are trying to model its world.

To save Brazil’s giant anteaters, scientists are grappling with one of the planet’s most transformative forces: roads.

Scientists dreamed of genetically engineering a flower patterned in the Games’ blue-and-white checkerboard emblem.