Suburban homeowners can do themselves and the environment a big favor by replacing grass with native plants, though some may feel peer pressure from neighbors to maintain manicured lawns.

Each city is populated by a unique host of microbial organisms, and this microbial 'fingerprint' is so distinctive, the DNA on your shoe is likely enough to identify where you live, scientists say.

Along Canada’s northwest coast, ancient Indigenous forest gardens — untended for more than 150 years — continue to thrive. Ts’msyen and Coast Salish peoples once planted and cared for plots of native fruit and nut trees, shrubs, and medicinal plants and roots…

Martin Edwards et al. use data spanning from 1958–2017 from the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey of the North Atlantic Ocean to examine krill distribution and abundance in conjunction...

In a new study, University of Maine researchers found that culture helps humans adapt to their environment and overcome challenges better and faster than genetics.

In the 18th century, French revolutionaries violently overturned centuries of feudal privileges by declaring that all men should be equal and all careers should be open to talent. The denizens of today’s capitalist elite who frequent the likes of the World…

In industrial cities, the quantitative configuration, spatial distribution and functioning of organaras, citynucleus and cityplasm are mapping of organelles, nucleus and cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells...

Lynetteholm aims to house 35,000 people and protect the port, but environmentalists have concerns.

Saudi Arabia-based researchers employed an electrochemical cell containing a ceramic membrane to extract lithium from seawater.

With enough training, most humans can learn how to echolocate, using their tongue to make clicking sounds and interpreting the echoes that come back, reflected from the surrounding environment.

A Victoria-area photographer captured a crow in the process of anting, a behaviour that has confounded experts for decades.