As the world’s elite athletes descend on Beijing for this winter’s Olympic and Paralympic Games, many of them are doing so literally. Mountain training centers from the Rockies to the Alps to the Pyrenees offer competitors ...

It’s not what you think.  In an age of climate change and widespread environmental angst, with new threats like murder hornets making headlines, the title of this essay might come across as some sort of death notice.  ...

Among biologists, it’s not uncommon to share photographs of interesting backyard finds – a salamander under the woodpile, for example, or an ant mound dug up by foxes.  When traveling, the featured sights and species ...