Increased scams aimed at defrauding food assistance recipients prompted the Arkansas Department of Human Services to create a ...

What’s the deal with scat? When animals well, you know, poop, they release organic matter which can contain diseases, phosphorus, and even fragments of DNA. Scientifically, animal poop is referred to ...

The profound impact of The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson generated waves. Carson’s novel marked a turning point for public awareness of human-caused environmental harm in 1962. Moreover, decades ...

Scientists found invisible plastic pollution across the North Atlantic Ocean. These particles harm both wildlife and humans.

Wild orcas occasionally approach humans and offer us food, according to a new study — but scientists aren't sure why. Researchers have documented dozens of cases of orcas (Orcinus orca), also ...

The researchers analysed each of the 34 instances of food sharing and found that people were in the water when the orcas approached them on 11 occasions. In 21 instances the humans were on boats ...

A food web includes all the feeding relationships between animals in a region. It shows who eats whom and how energy flows through the environment. To conduct this study, the researchers turned to ...

Primates are a group of mammals that includes humans and our close relatives, such as apes, monkeys and lemurs. Monkeys, such as capuchins and macaques; prosimians, like lemurs and tarsiers ...

How multiple human-induced stressors interactively impair freshwater food webs by Liu Jia, Chinese Academy of Sciences Editors' notes ...

Rather than being served by it Hunger and obesity, bumper crops and environmental damage are simultaneous facts of our food system. This incredibly complex global network is hard to describe. How ...

A recent study reveals that 25% of known food-contact chemicals (FCCs) are present in humans, with significant gaps in hazard data for many chemicals, highlighting potential health risks.

Researchers found food packaging chemicals like BPA and PFAS in human blood samples. Here's what we know about the risk of these chemicals.