A judge has blocked a proposed ban on using SNAP benefits to purchase soda. Here's what the ruling means for recipients and ...

Colossal Biosciences announced a new partnership with the University of Tasmania to combat devil facial tumour disease, a contagious cancer that has devastated the Tasmanian devil since it was first ...

Bald eagles are protected under federal law, and harming or killing one can carry severe penalties. Here's what the law says, including potential fines and prison time.

Many advertisements for toothpaste products will tout the inclusion of fluoride. That's because many experts say that the compound plays an important role in dental health, with some municipalities ...

Summer days at the beach may leave some with flashbacks of the movie Jaws, when a great white shark with a thirst for blood hunted in the waters of the island town of Amity. However, a real-life ...

Most flea and tick prevention products for animals rely on synthetic hormones and insecticides — substances that many pet parents may prefer to avoid. Fortunately, there are a number of brands making ...

(L) A person putting out a cigarette. (Representative Cover Image Source: Getty Images | Nopphon Pattanasari) | (R) A clever crow exchanging litter for food. If there existed a song by the name of ...

Climate change is altering our planet, causing extreme weather events like tropical storms, wildfires, severe droughts and heat waves, negatively affecting crop production, causing disruption to ...

As the climate crisis continues to worsen, so do various “natural” disasters, from hurricanes and floods to wildfires and droughts. And in the U.S., a megadrought in the West and Southwest has been ...

But in order to understand aspects of our DNA are altered by the environment, we need to explore what environmental factors contribute to this change in the first place. To clarify, it is not our DNA ...

Although we aren't a huge fan of plastics, we know that some types are are worse than others. For example, certain types can be recycled, while others can't. Likewise, some are even more toxic than ...

The terrifying abundance of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — better known as PFAS — means they are largely unavoidable in our everyday lives. PFAS have been nicknamed "forever chemicals" due to ...