High above Earth, Sunita Williams did something deeply human. She searched for home. The veteran Nasa astronaut said that when she first reached the International Space Station, she looked for India, ...

Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the World Economic Forum at Davos is primarily a platform for exchanging ideas, not for ...

The Andean condor has been threatened with extinction for decades. At one time, the condor was considered extinct in ...

A paper published last year in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface described a feather as a masterpiece of engineering ...

Our collective desire to escape may be approaching a fever pitch. Maybe that’s what’s driving the rising travel trend of ...

Every winter, the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count turns birding into a regional event, with the entirety of ...

Long before big cats, terror birds reigned as apex predators. Here’s how these flightless birds hunted, and why they went ...

Stacks of photos in a Greenville apartment offer a glimpse into life in Colombia. Some are similar to what a tourist might ...

Let’s be honest — most of us love chocolate. We enjoy it in ice cream, cakes, candy bars, and chocolate chip cookies, and ...

A new study underscores the importance of conservation for the region’s “Five Great Forests,” which support nearly half of ...

When people think about habitats on Earth, they likely picture forests, oceans or grasslands. Few think to look up. Yet the lower atmosphere, or troposphere, may be the largest habitat on the planet.