Sep 30, 2019 09:30AM
The endangered Florida panther has been saved from extinction thanks to the introduction of female Texan pumas.
A chemical engineer who grew up in Tanzania has designed a water purification system based on nanomaterials that is being put into use throughout the country.
A new analysis links climate change to the recent global rise of a multidrug-resistant fungal superbug, Candida auris.
Scientists warn that the Arctic is heating up much faster than the world average because of rising greenhouse gas emissions.
A 3.3 billion-year-old layer of rock has been found in South Africa that contains two types of insoluble organic matter, suggesting extraterrestrial origins.
Agricultural fertilizer runoffs from the Midwest are resulting in an algae-choked “dead zone” the size of Massachusetts at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico.
Icelanders unveiled a plaque in an official ceremony in memory of Okjokull Glacier, or Ok Glacier, the first of its kind officially lost to climate change.
A group of 24 scientists is urging that environmental destruction in conflict zones be treated as war crimes by establishing a new protocol in the Geneva Conventions.
Sep 18, 2019 02:42PM
The Amazon rainforest is in a critical state of near-collapse with a record number of fires in Brazil this year—twice as many as in 2018—as the Brazilian government allows it to happen.
Aug 30, 2019 09:30AM
More than 160 dead gray whales have washed up on the Pacific Coast this year, and scientists estimate that they represent just 10 percent of the total number of the dead.
