Instead of medications and a NICU stay, doctors are increasingly using a simple method to help opioid-affected newborns.

Federal regulations have been imposed on PFAS. How will a Trump or Harris presidency handle these "forever chemicals"?

Research suggests mental health disorders can spread socially. It's hard to prove, but “exposures” might drive awareness.

Radio became the one form of communication left in rural North Carolina after Helene took out power and cell service.

Other researchers are investigating conflict’s impacts on migration and health. But connecting the dots between armed conflict and health is not straightforward. Although researchers are finding ways ...

Every July, the western sandpiper, a dun-colored, long-beaked bird, leaves the shores of Alaska and migrates south. It may ...

Santiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver ...

Sheldon Auto Wrecking is a local institution in southwestern Wisconsin’s Vernon County. It’s tucked in a lush valley in Viroqua, Wisconsin, just downstream of a 50-foot earthen dam, locally known as ...

In “The Burning Earth,” historian Sunil Amrith chronicles civilization’s fraught relationship with the natural world.

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens ...