Nevada has no waterfowl consumption advisories despite high mercury levels in Carson River, raising human health concerns, ...

Bangladesh’s soft-shell crab exports are booming, but the Sundarbans’ fragile ecosystem is paying the price as juvenile crabs are harvested and mangrove soil destabilised ...

Invasive apple snails continue to spread in San Antonio’s River Walk. Officials are testing new barrier systems to curb reproduction.

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The San Antonio River Authority will monitor the new experimental barriers to see if they help control the population of invasive ...

Noe Calderas and Eddie Oropeza stood waist-deep in the San Antonio River, carefully attaching pieces of plastic to the concrete channel wall near the Pearl. “If only they were all that easy,” Oropeza ...

The world’s loneliest snail is no more. George, a Hawaiian tree snail—and the last known member of the species Achatinella apexfulva—died on New Year’s Day. He was 14, which is quite old for a snail ...

Usually, when a musician pops up on Jeopardy! it’s in the form of a clue (or, if you’re lucky like the Talking Heads, a whole category). Indie favorite Snail Mail made it onto the famed quiz show in a ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.