During the government shutdown, the U.S. Forest Service completed prescribed burns on more than 127,000 acres, Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz announced in an internal memo...
Infection rates are soaring in the United States due to a menacing bacteria that are resistant “to some of the strongest antibiotics available,” prompting infectious-disease experts...
During this week’s White House press conference in which President Trump named the over-the-counter drug Tylenol as a possible cause of rising autism rates, he did...
Ever since Elijah Maldonado was born at just 29 weeks, he has needed specialty treatments that his family could afford only with publicly funded healthcare. Diagnosed...
Health officials say a person in the state of Washington has a new form of bird flu virus. The virus, H5N5, never has been seen in...
For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially...
When Jesse Marquez walked into the Los Angeles harbor commission hearing room in 2013, he didn’t bring a consultant or a slideshow. He brought death certificates....
A rural legal aid group is suing the California Department of Food and Agriculture for refusing to disclose the locations of dairies infected with H5N1 bird...
A strange scene unfolded at the Adams/Vermont farmers market near USC last week. The pomegranates, squash and apples were in season, pink guavas were so ripe...
Soft batteries and water-walking robots are among the many creations made possible by studying animals and plants. By Carl Zimmer Illustrations by Álvaro Bernis Nov. 10,...
