Entomologist Josef H. Reichholf has been watching butterfly populations decline over the past 50 years

Stuff it, Mr. Green Revolution. Organic farming can feed the world, if we just gave it a fighting chance

In the era of No Child Left Behind and Common Core, we've forgotten about the learning and development that matter

Your necrobiome recycles your body to nourish new life

Humans have overcome plenty of natural crises before, Ruth DeFries tells Salon. Will we be able to do so again?

How rowdy Dutch farmers became the new "trucker convoy" — heroes to Tucker Carlson and right-wing Twitter

Americans say they're sick of presidential election coverage, but the ratings tell a different story

In “The Other Dark Matter,” Lina Zeldovich surveys the history and science of how human sewage is handled

Most commercial fertilizers are made via fossil fuels. A genetically modified bacteria could change that

The only way we can keep living on Earth, the author writes in his new book, is if there are fewer of us

Maybe not. But the New York Times still should have talked to some organic farmers to get their opinion on how to prevent a Malthusian future of fertilizer scarcity.

Alabama offered death-row inmates an untested method of execution — and then went back to the even worse option

Humans accelerated the nitrogen disaster during the “green revolution” of the 1960s

You don't need religion for life after death -- just $35,000 and a taste for liquid nitrogen.

"The beautiful symmetry that we see everywhere is primed to appear," one scientist told Salon