How Miami’s real estate industry turns a blind eye to climate change.

A young paleontologist may have discovered a record of the most significant event in the history of life on Earth.

The state loses a football field’s worth of land every hour and a half. Now engineers are in a race to prevent it from sinking into oblivion.

During the Great Floods of 2011, the Mississippi unleashed deadly currents and a flow rate that could fill the Superdome in less than a minute. Defying government orders, the author and two friends canoed 300 miles from Memphis to Vicksburg. This is their story.

“Rats are our shadow selves.”

On medical acting and real pain.

Turns out animal intelligence is not so different from our own.

After sepsis forced the amputation of Sheila Advento’s hands, an intricate transplant technique made her whole again. Then came the side effects.

An essay on why fear may be the only thing that saves humanity from climate change.

What climate change means for kids in New York.

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world.

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of 12 boys from a Thai cave.

Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy.

The story of Dr. Sherman Hershfield, who became Dr. Rapp.

When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, then was diagnosed with it herself, she and her husband set out to find a cure.

For decades, Jeffrey Lendrum went to extreme lengths to snatch falcon eggs from their nests and sell them to the highest bidder. Then he got caught.

On the plight of the baobab tree.

How an undercover oil industry mercenary tricked pipeline opponents into believing he was one of them.

African Elephants have been killing people, raping rhinos, and exhibiting uncharacteristically aggressive behavior. An investigation reveals deep similarities between elephants’ and humans’ reaction to childhood trauma.

Karl Friston’s free energy principle might be the most all-encompassing idea since Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?

With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable.

Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.