On the questions DNA tests answer and the new ones they create.

The story of the loneliest whale in the world.

Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going.

The biomass industry is warming up the South’s economy, but many experts worry it’s doing the same to the climate. Will the Biden Administration embrace it, or cut it loose?

The psychologist taught us that what we remember is not fixed, but her work testifying for defendants like Harvey Weinstein collides with our traumatized moment.

More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some scientists say the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.

Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs for coal ash.

What happens when we talk to animals?

What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?

Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back?

In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.

Millions of hearts fail each year. Why can’t we replace them?

A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.

Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?

“Around here the land swallows things.”

On body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.

Apex predators, feeding on pests and pets, teem in suburban Dallas and other American cities.

During a decade when Cascadia’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists fighting fossil fuel exports exceeded their wildest expectations.

After centuries of persecution, brown bears are showing up in some unexpected places.

Our climate models could be missing something big.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

Thousands of patients report lingering symptoms. Can research into another mysterious syndrome help?

An ambitious new system will track scores of species from space—shedding light, scientists hope, on the lingering mysteries of animal movement.

A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to the disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. And nobody but him will use the outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint.

Inside a Michelin-starred chef’s revolutionary quest to harvest rice from the sea.