One of the world’s rarest seabirds is on the verge of extinction. The Chatham Island Taiko, native to Chatham Island off the coast of New Zealand, has suffered an 80% …
A new exhibit, Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure, opened Friday at New York Botanical Garden. The exhibit replicates many of Charles Darwin’s botanical experiments, along a 33-stop tour that includes …
Next week in Nature’s “Superfish,” Rick Rosenthal searches far and wide for the opportunity to swim with the greatest gamefish in the sea — billfish.
On the 18th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, NASA released breathtaking new telescope images of galaxies colliding. NewsHour has an online slideshow of the images.
New research indicates that ancient Americans valued dogs not just for their companionship and work ethic, but for spiritual reasons too. Hundreds of prehistoric canines — along with jewelry and …
“Prince of the Alps” premieres May 11 on NATURE, and in preparation we are searching for our viewers’ best photos of the Alps. Have you snapped a perfect alpine scene? If you have an Alps photo that’s interesting, creative, beautiful, hilarious, or simply amazing, NATURE wants to know about it.
In the winter of 2006, a strange phenomenon fell upon honeybee hives across the country. Without a trace, millions of bees vanished from their hives. A precious pollinator of fruits and vegetables, the disappearing bees left billions of dollars of crops at risk and threatened our food supply.
Last night’s (Earth Day 2008) Frontline examined the politics behind the government’s failure to act on the biggest environmental problem of our time. The full episode is available to view …
Archaeologists make a grisly find: Four hundred skeletons buried in a mass grave. The bodies have lain undisturbed for 500 years, since the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. But this is no ordinary gravesite.
If the present era of human civilization is seen in terms of its defining technologies and resources, humans are now living in the “oil age.” In numbers: the world currently uses roughly 75-80 million barrels of crude oil per day. How is such a massive need met, here and abroad, year after year? Explore EXTREME OIL’s guide to the science behind oil production. GO
