Rising ocean temperatures and lingering industrial toxins are proving deadly for short-beaked common dolphins in UK waters.

There's a sensation that you experience—near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert—from a sound so total that you ...

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued.

The Endangered Species Act (ESA), now 50 years old, was once a rare beacon of bipartisan unity, signed into law by President ...

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

Plants, especially flowering ones, are often grown along roads to beautify cities. Now, a new Singapore study has found that such small artificial green spaces beside busy roads are also beneficial to ...

A spat between birds at a backyard birdfeeder highlights the sometimes fierce competition for resources that animals face in ...

Scientists have unveiled a new food source designed to sustain honey bee colonies indefinitely without natural pollen.

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Scott Winton has been wading through thick, smelly muck in the ...

As the global pursuit for sustainable energy solutions intensifies, water splitting remains a promising avenue for producing ...

Imagine a Slushee composed of ammonia and water encased in a hard shell of water ice. Now picture these ice-encrusted ...