Hummingbird pollination helped pineapples and other bromeliads evolve into one of the world's most diverse plant families.

The words "poet" and "bestselling" do not often go together. But they apply in the case of Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize ...

Connecticut has a talent for hiding its best treasures in plain sight, like a magician who’s really good at misdirection.

“…sensitivity toward destructiveness-cruelty is rapidly diminishing, and necrophilia, the attraction to what is dead, ...

This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world ...

A squeaky frog that became an internet sensation is added to a global list of species at risk of extinction.

Over generations, a small North American frog has learned how to survive in a world that's getting increasingly saltier. But ...

The New England Forestry Foundation is paying Maine landowners to defer harvesting while working on permanent conservation of ...

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Steve Curwood with Bill Moomaw, a distinguished visiting scientist at the Woodwell ...

There definitely are bobcats in New England and no proof of mountain lions. But that hasn't stopped the debate.

A deadly fungus that has wiped out hundreds of amphibian species worldwide may have started its global journey in Brazil. Genetic evidence and trade data suggest the fungus hitchhiked across the world ...

SANDCASTLES on the beach, doughnuts on the pier, and bashing into bumper cars…there’s nothing quite like a seaside family ...