Is it a safe and healthy practice to build using lots of timber, or not? Some French and Norwegian policy-makers say yes, while some British policy-makers...

The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently claimed that agriculture is a major producer of greenhouse gases...

It’s springtime in New England—an important season for maple syrup production. The maple syrup season is short, only lasting between four...

The life of a Maine lobster is mostly a matter of crawling around on muddy continental shelf seafloors, not far from a coastline. Benthic scavenging is...

Recently, geologist Harry S. Pettingill has found that deepwater oil and gas fields may be more environmentally friendly than first thought.1 In this day...

As June transitions into July, it’s time for fruit harvesting—including apples, peaches, pears, and cherries. Notice how fruit phenology (seasonal...

RNA viruses all use organized sequences of RNA chemical ‘letters’ to encode their plans for construction and operation. Infamous RNA viruses...

Watching COVID-19 news reporting on South Koreans and Americans shows one stark difference: South Koreans are wearing some kind of face mask but Americans...

When in houses humans stay, wild critters come out to play! It seems that coronavirus has beckoned wild critters to come boldly into human habitations...

For many in America and around the world, these are very turbulent and troubled times. But for some, not so much. For example, consider the wild cervids...

Click here for the abstract and availability of a secular, peer-reviewed article that summarizes the state of affairs among scientists who grapple with...

As America reacts to the coronavirus pandemic, some societal enterprises have been categorized as “essential” while others have been categorized...