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Blazes sparked in wild lands are devastating communities worldwide. The only way to protect them, researchers say, is to re-engineer them.

Normal cellular processes in living things — from germinating plants to our own cells — create biophotons, though escaping light isn’t visible to us.

Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.

Protein is having a moment. But even if most people are eating enough protein, studies suggest they may not be eating the right mix.

As evidence of alcohol's harms mounts, some people are testing out sobriety. Look to ancient civilizations' ways for a reset, scholars suggest.

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The global die-off of coral reefs signals a critical shift in Earth’s climate system with global environmental consequences along with economic ones.

In The Water Remembers, Amy Bowers Cordalis shares her family’s account of the Indigenous-led fight to restore the Klamath River in the Pacific Northwest.

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.