Although separated by hundreds of millions of years and entirely different triggers, the Great Dying and today’s Sixth Mass ...

I’ve learned the hard way that Mother Nature is anything but weak and feeble. I bought a house in the country a little over 30 years ago — a total fixer-upper. An old couple had lived there — ...

Climate change is exacerbating extreme heat waves across the country, burdening families, putting Americans’ health at risk, ...

Last week, torrential rain south of Wawa tore through Highway 17 between Batchawana Bay and Montreal River. For Manitoulin Island—with its fragile single access point on Highway 6—such an event ...

Severe threats to the health of humans and other species derive from degradation of Earth's life-support systems, particularly the impacts of climate change. Researchers and practitioners in clinical ...

When you hear the word “sponge,” you might picture the bright yellow thing in your kitchen sink or maybe even a certain ...

The earth has experienced five mass extinctions, and some experts believe we may be on the brink of the next one. With ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also ...

Scientists call them “living fossils,” creatures whose bodies resemble ancient ancestors recorded in stone. They’ve endured ...

The United Nations’s top court announced Wednesday that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...