In the coastal waters of New Zealand, ambient reef noise has been shown to be louder in the summers.

California’s prolonged drought is leading to bitter competition for water supplies between fish and agriculture.

Reading oysters for seventeenth-century Jamestown history

Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others? How you smell to a mosquito affects how much you're bit.

Finding anti-cancer agents inside tobacco may seem like a pretty strange coincidence, but it’s not unheard of to find help in harmful places.

Digging in Queensland, Australia, scientists recently discovered the fossilized remains of a small crustacean known as a seed ...

Check out this Special Mushroom Issue of Economic Botany to look up some pictures of edible mushrooms in the wild before you go picking.