Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.

The hunt for extraterrestrial life begins with planets like Earth. But our inhabited Earth once looked very different than Earth does today.

The award-winning nature writer, Robert Macfarlane, talks with Big Think about how to reacquaint ourselves with the rivers in our lives.

“While society's been humming along and enjoying all these advances in agriculture and medicine, in the last 50 or 60 years, ecologists have learned a lot about how nature works. I've codified these into a set of rules called the 'Serengeti Rules.'”

A member of a species that kills trees, this mushroom is not the first to be called the Humongous Fungus — and perhaps not the last.

Great tidal ranges are relatively rare on a global scale — and can be very deadly to the unsuspecting foreshore walker.

Scientists might be looking for Martian life in the wrong place.

Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil.

In the 1970s, James Lovelock proposed that the biosphere was not just green scruff quivering on Earth's surface. Instead, it managed to take over the geospheres.

Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.

A new method of mapping migration factors in erratic movements and changing climate.

Scientists still aren't sure how they perform without those restorative Z's.

Known as the Great Oxygenation Event, Earth froze over as oxygen accumulated in our atmosphere, nearly driving all life extinct.

James Suzman lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.

13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth's last wild continent.

As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.

We've heard this argument before.

A combination of factors make the weather at New Hampshire's Mount Washington arguably the most brutal in the world.

Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered.

The world is facing many crises, and we should look to natural interdependence and ancient wisdom as we explore science for solutions.

Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.

"The more I unleash myself from the tethers of domestication, the happier I feel."

Researchers estimate there may be as many as ten million trillion trillion phages on Earth — that's 10 with 30 zeros after it.

Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.

The divers spend their waking hours either under hundreds of feet of water on the ocean floor or squeezed into an area the size of a restaurant booth.

The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth's crust.

An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.

The early bird gets a symphony.

The moths in your garden might hear your tomato plant's pain.

What beavers and earthworms can teach us about working with, not against, Mother Nature.