Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta has agreed to settle tens of thousands of US lawsuits by farmers over the company's introduction of a genetically engineered corn seed variety before China approved i...

U.S. researchers want to study 1 million people to learn how genes, environments and lifestyles interact, so they can better tailor health care...

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill plans to appeal a judge's order permanently blocking a ban on abortions sought due to fetal genetic abnormalities and a requirement that aborted fetuses be buried ...

Researchers with the federal government and the New England Aquarium say they've developed a new model to provide better estimates about the North Atlantic right whale population, and the news isn't g...

It may not be surprising that an "aquatic desert" turtle faces long odds in life, but environmentalists and biologists still welcomed this week's endangered species designation for the Sonoyta mud tur...

Texas billionaire Edward P. Bass is giving $30 million to the University of Arizona to support the Biosphere 2 research facility...

The endangered California condor is making a slow but steady comeback in the wild three decades after the giant bird went nearly extinct...

Gene tests may help gauge who will benefit from cancer immune system treatments...

Correction: Tracking Sea Turtles story...