Environmental News

Researchers have revealed how the mixture of chemical weapons deployed by plants keeps marauding insects off base better than a one-note defense. This insight goes beyond the ecological convention of studying a single chemical compound a plant is packing and offers new ways to approach agricultural pest management.

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The relationship between bees and cannabis is making headlines in both the scientific and entrepreneurial world. And it just may be a match made in heaven.

Researchers have reverse engineered the way a pine tree produces a resin, which could serve as an environmentally friendly alternative to a range of fossil-fuel based products worth billions of dollars.

From the air, the scale of the devastation in and around Paradise, Calif., is, simply put, alarming.

In 1983, California Living Museum opened its doors for the first time. Thirty-five years later, more than 325 animal call CALM home on its 14 acres.  Most of the animals are native to California, others very common to the area.

New research explores the possibilities of a single species’ extinction triggering an “extinction domino effect.”

Road de-icing, industrial activity and other culprits are pushing salt levels in rivers and streams to alarming levels

If you want to see a wild island fox, you have to visit the remote Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. This special species doesn’t live anywhere else.

There has been a dramatic decline in the number of many bird species in North America. According to the North American Bird Conservation Initiative 37 percent of North American birds, or 432 species, are at risk as a result.