Universities like to present themselves as durable institutions. They outlast governments, ride out recessions, and take ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center turned 60 this year. We're celebrating with six of our favorite stories since ...

The Ennedi rock art of Chad should not be read as decoration alone, but as a visual narrative of environmental change.

Tucked away beside the main road that runs along Eleuthera, a narrow island in the Bahamas, the Leon Levy Native Plant ...

As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

Dr Nils Thonemann and Mona Delval consider the scientific and technical requirements for effective evaluation of emerging marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) approaches ...

This important study provides a detailed analysis of the transcriptional landscape of the mouse hippocampus in the context of various physiological states. The main conclusions have solid support: ...

More than 40 current and former Environmental Science and Engineering concentrators demanded that the dean of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences rehire Bryan Yoon, a lecturer and ...

"Baltimore is sinking, and the sea is rising," Benjamin Zaitchik pronounced on a drizzly, late-summer day in his office at Johns Hopkins University. A professor of Earth and planetary sciences, ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 30 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original ...