ENVIRONMENT

Californians may not know it on sight, but there’s going to be something different about their mosquitoes this summer.

Lake Baikal in south-east Siberia is the world's deepest lake by average depth and maximum depth.

Americans generate 262 million tons of waste each year. Here are a few things you can actually recycle.

You won't need a green thumb to take care of these tough plants.

People usually want plenty of distance between themselves and their poop, but some engineers argue that all that waste is going to waste.

Rare succulents native to California and South Africa are being poached to meet soaring demand from houseplant collectors.

In 1997, 4.8 million LEGO pieces—many of which were nautical-themed—fell off a cargo ship. They're still turning up on beaches 25 years later.

The Svalbard Global Seed Bank in Norway contains 1.1 million seed samples from roughly 6000 plant species, and it just received a new batch of deposits.

The most metal of all weather events occurred in 2020, when a lightning bolt lit up the sky for nearly 500 miles.

Recycling razor blades isn't as easy as throwing them in the recycling bin, but that doesn't mean you should treat them like trash.

From Ansault pears to passenger pigeons, you'll likely never find these delicacies from days past on a menu ever again.

Thanks to Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental activism, there’s now a critically endangered species named in his honor.