A Louisiana biologist is in heady company these days, honored by having a newly identified species of snake named after him

Voicing wake-up calls for new generations to save cinema, oceans and journalism, film director Martin Scorsese, marine biologist Sylvia A. Earle and reporter Alma Guillermoprieto were awarded Friday Spain's prestigious Princess of Asturias prizes

Experts are urging Mexico's government to use floating barriers to enclose a small area of the Gulf of California where a half dozen critically endangered vaquita porpoises were seen in September

Massachusetts man who police dubbed the "Brazen Botanist" after he was captured on surveillance camera stealing plants from a porch pleads guilty

A judge has issued a temporary protective order to keep a Lake Tahoe activist away from a state bear biologist who says the woman stalked her during a long-running dispute over the capture of nuisance bears

A lawsuit making its way through federal court Alaska will decide whether Pacific walruses should be listed as a threatened species, giving them additional protections

Biosphere 2 was declared a failure by detractors because oxygen had to be pumped into what was supposed to be a sealed, fully self-sustaining system

Scientists say they've located the first well-documented genetic glitch that increases a man's risk of impotence

Deer biologists across northern New England are dusting off their plans for dealing with an always fatal deer disease that was recently discovered in Quebec

The #MeToo movement has sent dozens of once-powerful Hollywood players into exile, but few of them have been placed in handcuffs or jail cells