Robin Hood’s legendary Major Oak may be dead after 1,200 years, raising alarms about climate stress on ancient trees.

Cities have always done something strange to human life. Put more people into the same space, and ideas, habits, rumors, jobs ...

Scientists found Amazon trees may share defense genes, helping them survive insects and explain extreme rainforest diversity.

The green economy has crossed a striking line, $10 trillion in market value. A new report from the London Stock Exchange Group says that if these environmental businesses were treated as their own ...

Cities around the world are trying to become more like sponges. The idea sounds simple enough, with more parks, rain gardens, green roofs, wetlands, porous soil, and smarter drains helping streets ...

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has survived another attempt to weaken the rules that guide its protection. A Congressional Review Act push to overturn the monument’s 2025 ...

A new X-ray study has taken a sharper look at the hot gas inside the Perseus galaxy cluster, one of the brightest galaxy clusters in the X-ray sky. The result challenges an old puzzle about whether ...

A tiny green parrot that many bird experts knew mostly from old museum specimens has turned up again in one of Indonesia’s hardest-to-reach mountain forests. The Blue-fronted Lorikeet, found only on ...

A single workout can do more than wake up tired legs. New research suggests that as inactive adults become fitter, their brains may use each new burst of exercise more effectively. The finding shifts ...

Computer chips may be heading toward a new kind of precision, one measured not in wires or circuits, but in single layers of atoms. A research team has found that coating an ultrathin chip material ...

A plant that looks almost too simple to notice has just pushed scientists into strange chemical territory. Researchers studying smooth horsetail, a hollow-stemmed survivor from one of Earth’s oldest ...

How much sunlight reaches the ground beneath a forest, beside a highway, or on a snowy mountain slope? In Switzerland, scientists now have an unusually detailed answer. A new national map shows light ...