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Two weeks ago, we brought you a conversation with Julie Libarkin - a researcher at Michigan State University who has spent two years compiling a database…

As a college student, Amy Bower dreamed of becoming an oceanographer, combining her love of physics and the natural world. A devastating diagnosis almost…

Headlines trumpeted the dire news: a new U.N. report says human beings have put one million species at risk of extinction within decades. They point the…

From cod to lobster, it’s no secret that New England’s fisheries are suffering at the hands of rising water temperatures and ecological shifts related to…

Why ski to the South Pole and back? In the famous words of mountaineer George Mallory, "because it's there." And as long as we're going, why not do some…

The record number headlined the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' annual "Global Trends" report published Wednesday, just a day before World Refugee Day.

A committee of experts voted unanimously to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6-months-old.

David Gessner writes about the relevance of Henry David Thoreau during and after a pandemic

Hurricane Sandy. It’s been called Frankenstorm and it’s causing flashbacks to the Perfect Storm of 1991, when a Halloween Nor’Easter absorbed Hurricane…

Many teenagers are not getting adequate sleep.