Ready-to-eat shrimp rings have had their fair share of mud thrown at them. Over the years, social justice and environmental crusaders have pointed out the problems with these cheap mainstays of ...

Planet Earth used to be something like a cross between a deep freeze and a car crusher. During vast stretches of the planet’s history, everything from pole to pole was squashed beneath a blanket of ...

They didn’t think much of the first dead whale. Dwarfed by the rugged cliffs of Patagonia’s high green fjords, the team of biologists had sailed into a gulf off the Pacific Ocean searching for the ...

Stories about declining species have become all too common. But what about when an animal comes back from the brink? It’s welcome news for conservationists, of course. But the return of a species can ...

Given how much work it takes to raise a child, it’s not surprising some animals have evolved ways of getting out of it. Around one percent of bird species, for instance, lay their eggs in the nests of ...

Nestled along Central Africa’s Atlantic coast, Gabon is home to some of the continent’s most biodiverse rainforests. Hippos are even known to surf ocean waves. But as Gabon prepares for a hydropower ...