Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

scientists estimate they now contribute to the extinction risk of at least 1,660 animal species worldwide. “We developed small guts and big heads by cooking food; we climbed the food chain by ...

Bird enthusiasts have received sobering news with this year’s U.S. State of the Birds report. According to a new assessment completed by American Bird Conservancy, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, National ...

Drought increased average heat wave length by 12 to 48 hours in some locations. The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us.

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The COVID-19 pandemic showed the value of changing direction in research. It should be incentivized, encouraged and celebrated. An analysis of landscape features and of river deposits preserved in ...