Following the invention of agriculture, one thing led to another, and ta da: the world's most popular pet.
What makes Idaho's agricultural industry deserve special protection from journalists and activists?
In his inaugural column, an artisan butcher from Brooklyn reveals the secrets to examining a side of beef.
Zika and Ebola get all the headlines, but pathogens that threaten livestock and crops could be even more dangerous for humans.
A lawsuit in California and violent protests in Brooklyn have focused on the practice of ritual chicken slaughter. Is this anti-Semitism?
After 84 years, scientists have finally unravelled the mystery of an early dino-cousin.
In the Mariana Trench, the lowest point in any ocean, every tiny animal tested had plastic pollution hiding in its gut.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, who died last week at 91, found an enduring language to express his anguish at what human exploitation has done to the world.
Scientists have managed to sequence the genome of a measles virus that infected a 2-year-old girl who died in 1912.