ENVIRONMENT

Ryan Hickman's business, “Ryan’s Recycling," has recycled approximately 200,000 cans and bottles.

Discarded trees are the gifts that keep on giving.

Prolonged exposure to dirty air can lead to an increased risk of hypertension.

Scientists were able to reduce methane production by 99 percent in preliminary tests on artificial cow stomachs.

Red light helped honeybees bounce back after exposure to a neonicotinoid pesticide.

Countless scientists, naturalists, conservationists, and support staff have died in the pursuit of knowledge that could protect vulnerable places and species, and enable people to live safer, healthier lives.

Gases produced by huge quantities of seabird guano contribute modestly to cloud formation, thus helping lower temperatures.

It may dull autumn’s vibrant red and yellow hues.

The well will reach temperatures as hot as 1800°F.

Dwarf mongooses exposed to traffic noise in an experiment failed to pick up on, and react to, predator cues.

Bees are pollinators and crucial to our ecosystem; we depend on them for much of our produce. Bees are in trouble—but there are easy things you can do to help.

Numbers of Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs are on the rise again in Yosemite National Park.