These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

By Keith Bradsher Keith Bradsher, who has covered China’s rare earth industry since 2009, reported from Beijing, Ganzhou and Longnan, China. China shook the world in 2010 when it imposed an ...

As soon as the first ever flowers unfurled from their buds in the early Cretaceous period, they were visited by pollinators.

The men, including two Belgian teenagers, pleaded guilty to smuggling thousands of live queen ants, which the Kenyan ...

In fact, they are two "Rare Earth" elements from group of 17 in ... Chinese processing because Beijing owns 90 percent of the world's refining capacity.

as well as heavy rare earth magnets — of which about 90% of the world’s supply are also synthesized on Beijing’s territory. The export halt applies to all countries, but access to elements ...

Tashi is just one of countless amateur biologists around the world, but he possesses a rare combination of passion and talent. “He is a good scientist who at the same time is doing conservation ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of ...

A young woman was left wheelchair dependent after stress and a sickness bug led to a rare neurological disorder. Heather Chandler, 26, suddenly started experiencing symptoms of chronic back pain and ...

Trump’s “nothing I can do here” stance is unusual for a president who prides himself on strong-arming other world leaders to do his bidding. And it escalates a clash with the courts in ...

The suspects had concealed the creatures in "specially modified test tubes and syringes" which would have enabled the insects to survive ... The KWS said the demand for rare insect species is ...