Stories by Jesse Greenspan

Though sometimes overstated, the benefits of cold-water swimming are slowly becoming clearer

Marijuana’s health impacts—good and bad—are coming into focus

Delayed umbilical cord snipping is worth the wait for preemies

Racial and gender disparities persist in award-winning kids’ literature despite recent gains in representation

Dirty air has been linked to poor health outcomes, ranging from suicidality to low birth weight

An experiment at the University of Cambridge highlights the environmental cost of a well-manicured lawn

Lawyers and nonlawyers alike prefer contracts written in plain English

As more researchers document the potential harms of social media use, especially for youngsters, both Republicans and Democrats are pushing legislation to rein in platforms

Streaked shearwaters head deep into hurricanes to avoid crash landings

Henderson Island is covered in nearly 18 metric tons of trash

Biologists are trying to clean uninhabited U.S. Pacific Islands that are covered in nuclear waste, bird-eating mice and yellow crazy ants

Given a chance to regenerate, a razed forest in the Amazon can host almost as much life as a virgin one

New studies reveal the pesticides are especially harming already-endangered Pacific fishers

Scientists find there’s nearly a 100 percent chance that bugs are creeping, slithering and hopping throughout your home at this very moment

An extinction crisis is quietly unfolding in the southeastern U.S.

The new science of urban ecology reveals a surprising trend of wildlife adapting to the cityscape