An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow ...

Sweden and Finland, Europe's most forested countries, are not doing enough to protect their primary and old-growth forests, ...

Air pollution forced nearly 200 schools in Bangkok to close on Thursday, local authorities said, as officials urged people to ...

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold ...

It's now official. Last year was the warmest year on record globally and the first to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial ...

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Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute, have made a final Earth-side pit ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...

Maine's lobster fishery—one that supports thousands of jobs statewide—is extensively monitored. Management efforts are ...

A new study shows biochar to be far more effective at long-term carbon storage than previously thought. The study reveals ...