You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered ...

Have you ever thought about how animals help keep our planet healthy? Every creature, big or small, plays a part in taking care of the Earth. From tiny bees to giant elephants, animals help plants ...

The natural world doesn’t always fit neatly into our defined boundaries, says Will Newton ...

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a new field of research is challenging these assumptions and showing that ...