Vegan is the leading term consumers search for when seeking animal-free products. But is it the best word to describe a growing food category? During a passionate debate about the future of the ...

A study by the Center for Biological Diversity published today in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ found that 2,204 species around the United States should be considered for protection under the ...

The new U.S. Dietary Guidelines emphasize animal-based protein over plant-based. What are the pros and cons of each? Here’s what the science says.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered ...

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history Riley Black - Science Correspondent A Cape sundew wraps its sticky leaves around a helpless ...

You’ve heard the slogans: save the whales, protect our pollinators. You may have lamented the decline of polar bears or the last of the northern white rhinos. But scientists are only beginning to ...

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A study on medicinal plants published in Cell highlights the symbiotic relationship between humans and plant species, particularly in the context of medicine. This relationship, which spans millennia, ...

Plant-based and cultivated meat stumbled after early hype. GFI’s Bruce Friedrich explains in this episode of ...