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Ellen Bernstein, a river guide turned rabbi who blazed a spiritual trail in the environmental movement by tying nature worship…

The extreme heat is making some of the world’s poorest women suffer.That’s the stark conclusion of a report, released Tuesday,…

The most important pigment in ancient times was processed not from a knotty root or the frothy juice of a…

Determining whether someone has Alzheimer’s disease usually requires an extended diagnostic process. The doctor takes the patient’s medical history, discusses…

The 5-year-old looked nervously at his older siblings, scanning their faces for any sign of distress as needles quickly jabbed…

The artist Eduardo Kac was at his New York gallery the other day to show a reporter his work: a…

Earth is ending its hottest year in 174 years, and likely in 125,000.An unrelenting heat wave has roasted Phoenix and…

One day in September, a team of scientists climbed into a small boat and traveled to the Salish Sea, searching…

Anophthalmus hitleri was discovered in the former Yugoslavia on June 20, 1932, four months after the Austrian-born Hitler became a…

It’s a cold, gray afternoon in December, and at the American Museum of Natural History, half a million leafcutter ants…