Only four giant Palouse earthworms have been found in the last 100 years — so scientists are dousing the worms with hot mustard and shocking them with electricity. Those are the two main tricks of ...

While a paved surface full of wriggling earthworms might come as an inconvenience to a school-aged boy dribbling a basketball or a high-heeled business professional walking on her daily commute, it ...

You might not have thought much about earthworms. If so, it may surprise you to learn that Charles Darwin studied earthworms for 40 years, earthworms are causing a climate change controversy, there is ...

Environmentalists in China are warning against a growing trend of using gadgets to electrocute earthworms, as it may also harm the soil’s health. The sale of the soft and slimy invertebrates is a ...

In the past five years, reports of staggering insect declines have stoked anxiety and debate concerning the fate of the “little things that run the world,” as the late biologist E. O. Wilson once ...

While paved surfaces full of wriggling earthworms might come as an inconvenience to a school-aged boy dribbling a basketball or a high-heeled business professional walking on her daily commute, it ...