Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s ...

Spekboom is everywhere, it’s all anyone talks about … what used to be an Angora goat farming town is now a spekboom town,” says field ecologist Rae Attridge. In the past two years, Nat Carbon, the ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

A deceptively simple question underlies many global environmental policies: where, exactly, are the world’s forests? A new study suggests the answer depends heavily on which map one consults—and that ...

Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...

PLANNING THE NEXT 24 HOURS: Near record warmth is likely across the Madison area Monday afternoon. Our current record set back in 1981 is 57 degrees, our forecast is 61. We will have plenty of ...