In recent weeks, hundreds of disoriented and emaciated brown pelicans have turned up in strange places along the Pacific coast from the Baja peninsula to Washington state

Despite intense opposition from farmer groups and scientists, the European Parliament voted last week to approve new regulations that could ultimately outlaw up to one-quarter of the pesticides on the European market

Science teachers in Louisiana have been given permission to use supplementary material in the classroom in a move that many scientists and educators regard as a backdoor attempt to allow creationism and its variants into the classroom