While some conservation initiatives have been applauded as triumphs for wildlife, others, no matter how positive the ...

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A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

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Two scientists want NASA to build a quarantine lab for alien germs on the Moon, rather than on Earth. The pair, ...

London - A team of international scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey set off on Wednesday to explore a mysterious marine ecosystem that has lain hidden under an ice shelf for up to 120,000 ...

Track earthquakes, look for aliens, and figure out which bird is chirping so early in the morning.

Note: Monitored ecosystems include coastal/marine, forests, freshwater, glaciers, grasslands, shrublands, tundra, and wetlands, depending on what is present in each park.