Barbara Strauch, 63, Science and Health Editor at The New York Times, Dies

Photo Barbara Strauch in 2009. She directed health and science coverage for The New York Times for a decade. Credit Earl Wilson/The New York Times Barbara Strauch, a reporter and editor who wrote two books about the brain and directed health...

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As Ebola Retreats, Obama Urges Vigilance and Preparation in West Africa

Continue reading the main story Video Play Video|1:06 Obama Hosts West African Leaders Obama Hosts West African Leaders The president met with the leaders of the Ebola-affected nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea on Wednesday to discuss...

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California Parents Opposing State-Mandated Vaccinations of Children Delay Vote

Photo State Senators Richard Pan, left, Loni Hancock, center, and Ben Allen talked about a bill requiring California's schoolchildren to be vaccinated. Credit Rich Pedroncelli/Associated Press SACRAMENTO — Several hundred Californians swarmed...

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Dot Earth Blog: How a Hudson Highlands Mountain Shaped Tussles Over Energy and the Environment

Photo A hiker pauses to check the view on the shoulder of Storm King Mountain in the Hudson Highlands.Credit Andrew C. Revkin On Sunday, I spent the afternoon accompanying my wife as she led a hike up Storm King Mountain, the imposing northern...

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SpaceX Comes Close to Recovering Rocket

Photo Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Tuesday. Credit NASA A cargo ship carrying food, experiments and supplies, including an Italian espresso maker, to the International Space Station, lifted off Tuesday afternoon...

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Chimps That Hunt Offer a New View on Evolution

Studies of hunters and gatherers — and of chimpanzees, which are often used as stand-ins for human ancestors — have cast bigger, faster and more powerful males in the hunter role. Now, a 10-year study of chimpanzees in Senegal shows females playing...

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General Electric Planning Television Series Covering Science and Tech

Photo Brian Grazer, left, and Ron Howard are producers of the "Breakthrough" series from G.E. In an age when viewers increasingly fast-forward past television commercials on their DVRs or bypass most advertisements altogether by streaming the...

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World Briefing: Nigeria: Militants Have Displaced 800,000 Children, Unicef Reports

A new Unicef report says that about 800,000 children have been forced from their homes in northeast Nigeria by the Boko Haram uprising, with many separated from their families and some subjected to abuse and forced marriage. The number of refugee children...

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World Briefing: Sierra Leone: Ebola Trial Begins

Graphic: Ending the Ebola Outbreak Researchers began vaccinating volunteers in Sierra Leone with an experimental Ebola vaccine in a study officially begun on Monday. The trial, the third to begin in the West African countries hardest hit by...

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Dot Earth Blog: Never Mind the Anthropocene – Beware the ‘Manthropocene’

Kate Raworth, who works at the intersection of economics and environmental sustainability, isn't happy with the composition of the Anthropocene Working Group, which is weighing whether this age of rising human influence on Earth's operating systems is...

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