Both the UK and US Governments have pledged to end research using animals, but is such a goal realistic? And how might it change medical research? Talha Burki reports.

The pair of animals chosen as mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are stoats — weasel-like creatures that are ...

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and ...

Overturning the 2009 decision means billions of extra tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions over the next three decades.

President Trump announced this afternoon that he was officially erasing the scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten ...

Around 307 million years ago lived a football-sized and -shaped creature that loved to munch on veggies. Scientists have just ...

Southern right whales are having fewer calves as sea ice shrinks. Scientists say this species may now be a warning sign of climate change.

Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...

In his new book, "MEAT," Bruce Friedrich of the Good Food Institute addresses the consequences of humanity’s love of meat and advocates for meat alternatives—alt meat—to feed a growing population and ...

The 2009 endangerment finding affirms that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health and ...

Trade groups, lawmakers, and economists agree that the increased imports from Argentina are unlikely to lower the record-high ...