A study in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the African Swine Fever virus, currently circulating in Europe, is not the ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.

Across Africa, many rural communities face a growing sanitation crisis. Wastewater treatment systems, where they exist, are ...

Some two‑thirds of riders and drivers for food delivery and ride‑hailing apps in the UK may work in fear of "unfair feedback" ...

Zimbabwean farmer Freedom Sibanda used to sell his goats for US$30 each. Now, through crossbreeding techniques, one goat can ...

There was a time when oil and gas companies happily linked themselves to the idea of planet-wide environmental changes. "Each ...

Symmetry is a fundamental characteristic of most multi-cell animals. However, the cell division of embryonic cells is ...

In the southern flanks of the Indian Ocean and the central and eastern Pacific, just north of the Antarctic Circumpolar ...

Korean researchers have succeeded in developing an innovative transparent film using graphene. This development secures a new ...

In the quiet mountain villages of northern Portugal, centuries-old stone water tanks and irrigation channels may now be ...

Amphibians—the most threatened vertebrate class on Earth—are under enormous pressure, with 41% of all species already ...