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Scientists are studying dogs around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to see whether anything in their genes helped their families survive the harshest, most degraded environments.

Scientists who tracked humpback whales in Australia noticed that fewer whales wailed to find mates as their population grew.

As Latinos age in the Rio Grande Valley, the border region is experiencing a surge of dementia-related disease – pushing scientists to find out why.

A new study that analyzes data from more than 50,000 amateur stargazers finds that artificial lighting is making the night sky about 10% brighter each year.

Our Medieval ancestors left us with a biological legacy: Genes that may have helped them survive the Black Death make us more susceptible to certain diseases today.

A new study finds that some people really are “mosquito magnets” and it probably has to do with the way they smell.

The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of the U.S. West’s most spectacular predators — the golden eagle — as the species teeters on the edge of decline.

Long-term studies in Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, have examined how big cats prowl through their urban jungles, and how people can best live alongside them — lessons that may be applicable to more places in coming decades.

Scientists have discovered the world’s largest plant off the Australia coast — a seagrass meadow that has grown by repeatedly cloning itself.

The nonprofit Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund announced that more land in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where Grauer’s gorillas live will fall under a community-protection initiative.

State and federal agencies that long banned “cultural burns” in the U.S.

Oxygen levels have dropped in hundreds of lakes in the United States and Europe over the last four decades, a new study found.