A bill before the Hawaii Legislature would formally recognize the coconut tree as a food source, water source and cultural ...

By Clem Seecharan Clem Seecharan is Emeritus Professor of History, London Metropolitan University, and the author of books on ...

Vancouver Island is lending Whidbey Island its battle plan for vanquishing a common foe — Scotch broom. The bright yellow ...

On a hot February morning, Galápagos National Park rangers released 50 giant tortoises back to Floreana Island—marking the ...

From left, Temarama Anguna-Kamana, Head of Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with National Environment Service (NES) Elizabeth Munro, Manager of Environmental ...

Seabirds undertake some of the most impressive migrations on Earth, but their remote nature means these journeys can be challenging to research. BirdLife International's Dr Joanne Morten explores how ...

Turns out evidence of alien life might well have been discovered much closer to home.

For nearly five decades, Steven Spielberg has helped define what alien stories mean to movie audiences. Sometimes they arrive as cosmic miracles. Sometimes as existential threats. Sometimes as ...

Amelia Ruiz-Coogan explains why learning to tell the difference between weeds and wanted plants, and indigenous and alien species, matters, especially in threatened grassland areas.

Some exceptionally unsettling elements were thrown together to create the Xenomorph when it first appeared in Ridley Scott's 1979 horror sci-fi, "Alien." Spliced from ...

Part of what makes some classics worthy of such a title is the ingenuity and borderline movie magic they employ to tell their story. In the case of "Alien," for example, director Ridley Scott used ...