When the Chicxulub impactor hit, the animals that had the best chance of surviving turned out to be those with wings. See how new finds are reshaping the story of how birds evolved.

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was a tropical greenhouse. Today, it's an ice-capped world. And an international team of ...

Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that ...

The first modern Olympic truce, during the 1994 Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway, did produce a one-day pause in the siege ...

Hottest year on record,” “Hottest decade ever,” “Earth enters uncharted climate territory.” The repetition has become so ...

Youth climate activists flocked to Tallahassee Thursday to back legislation that would protect Floridians from being taken ...

Wars, climate change, disruptive technologies and the rise of autocracy over the past year prompted scientists to set the clock at 85 seconds to midnight.

There are currently zero mentions of Net Zero in the different school curricula across the UK, and this situation is echoed internationally. A number of curriculum reviews are under way, ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists cited risks of nuclear war, climate change, potential misuse of biotechnology and the increasing use of artificial intelligence without adequate controls as it ...

The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

As Earth’s climate changes, one of the hardest things to figure out is exactly how the planet will change in response. And ...