“Literally tens of thousands of people were employed to just spoon poison into the burrows.”

The Amazon fires could fuel the decades-long fight that indigenous people have waged for their land.

Across the world, leaders withhold property rights to cement their control even as they impoverish their own people.

In pursuit of a mate, Sivuqaq produced such stupendously loud sounds that researchers had to understand how they worked.

Long ago, songbirds executed an evolutionary power move, rejiggering a sensor for savory tastes to react to sweetness.

Readers respond to stories in our May 2022 issue.