Nearly a dozen miles off the California coast on a foggy October morning, a crane lifts a boxy yellow robot off the deck of the research vessel Rachel Carson and lowers it into Monterey Bay’s choppy ...

Nature is capable of the most mysterious, surreal, stunning, and powerful things. The only thing we can do as humans is to ...

Our oceans are filled with fascinating marine life. Of course, they're not all harmless. Avoid these venomous creatures while ...

Australia's most venomous jellyfish has arrived early at a north Queensland beach, where eight of the creatures have been ...

When Martin Wickramasinghe wrote Madol Doova, his fabled 1947 children’s novel about two young boys who set up camp on Madol Doova island, he described a land “shaded over by dense growth of kadol ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives a phenomenal performance as a profoundly unhappy woman. There isn't a lot of plot, but director Mike Leigh builds his stories from the details and detritus of daily life.

Subscribe to our FREE Newsletter, or Telegram and WhatsApp channels for the latest stories and updates. As Chinese New Year approaches, it’s time again to exchange new banknotes for red packets and ...

Here are eight key things to know about water scarcity and what WWF is doing to help. Although water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, only about 3% is freshwater, and less than 1% is accessible for ...

Northern pike are moving through salt water to invade freshwater habitats in Southcentral Alaska, according to a new study. It's the first known documentation that northern pike are traveling ...

After a 1990 wildfire destroyed his home and possessions, Iyer started over. The loss led him to a Benedictine monastery, where he found comfort and compassion in solitude. His new memoir is Aflame.

About 200,000 people die each year from schistosomiasis, sometimes known as snail fever, which is caused by parasitic flatworms called flukes that live inside freshwater snails.