Bald eagles are protected under federal law, and harming or killing one can carry severe penalties. Here's what the law says, including potential fines and prison time.

Colossal Biosciences announced a new partnership with the University of Tasmania to combat devil facial tumour disease, a contagious cancer that has devastated the Tasmanian devil since it was first ...

A judge has blocked a proposed ban on using SNAP benefits to purchase soda. Here's what the ruling means for recipients and ...

Summer days at the beach may leave some with flashbacks of the movie Jaws, when a great white shark with a thirst for blood hunted in the waters of the island town of Amity. However, a real-life ...

Climate change is altering our planet, causing extreme weather events like tropical storms, wildfires, severe droughts and heat waves, negatively affecting crop production, causing disruption to ...

The idea of recycling or donating clothing is an easy concept to grasp. Once donated, good quality secondhand clothing is repurposed, resold, or redistributed to those in need. But what happens to the ...

The terrifying abundance of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — better known as PFAS — means they are largely unavoidable in our everyday lives. PFAS have been nicknamed "forever chemicals" due to ...

Most of us have heard the term “fracking” and know that it has serious implications for our environment and, potentially, public health. However, ask anyone on the street to list those implications ...

There’s a reason that so many toys are made from plastic these days. Plastic is durable, washable, sturdy, and as evidenced by the islands of it currently floating in the Pacific Ocean, plentiful. As ...

When you purchase a product labeled BPA-free, the implication is that this product is somehow safer than those that are not labeled as such. Yet, very few people understand what BPA-free means. Make ...

As the climate crisis continues to worsen, so do various “natural” disasters, from hurricanes and floods to wildfires and droughts. And in the U.S., a megadrought in the West and Southwest has been ...

(L) A person putting out a cigarette. (Representative Cover Image Source: Getty Images | Nopphon Pattanasari) | (R) A clever crow exchanging litter for food. If there existed a song by the name of ...