Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It’s quite easily passed on from one person to another.

Evidence about the virus and the spread of disease indicates animals that may be a reservoir of the mpox virus. In the DRC, 43 species of animals, including primates, have shown positive evidence of ...

The species could cause damage costing the regional economy $1 billion, the Solano County supervisors estimated in an Oct. 25 ...

Using a variety of techniques, the researchers realized that two subspecies of squirrels from Southeast Asia were actually unique species in their own right ...

It’s not yet certain which animals are the natural carriers. But, based on the available evidence, it is thought to be ...

A team of American scientists sought to learn whether an American team of burrowing rodents could help restore Mount St Helens after her 1980 eruption.

By 1983, the areas around Mount St. Helens chosen for the gopher experiment were heaps of "collapsing slabs of porous pumice.

A bobcat, with its characteristic reddish fur and black markings, trots across a snow-covered field in central Oregon, in the ...

Blooms from this abundant plant occur about every 50 years. Here's why it causes a rat flood and, ultimately, famine in certain regions of the world.

Behind the football stadium on the Tortuga trail and surrounding dorms is a 95-acre preserve dedicated to the conservation of ...

Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...

Another mitigation tactic Bentley recommended is storing firewood at least 20 feet away, but as far as possible, from the ...