Since the dawn of the 20th century, humanity has experienced a rise in life expectancy unparalleled over our species’ 300,000 ...

Flooding is getting worse, and not just from hurricanes or rising tides, but from increased heavy rainfall. In this episode, ...

An international team of researchers has successfully used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot ...

An estimated 168 billion gallons of wastewater — or produced water — is generated annually by the Permian Basin fracking ...

California's state fossil — are familiar to anyone who has ever visited Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits, a sticky trap from ...

A landmark study conducted by the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment; Bucknell ...

(via PBS Eons) It would take decades for paleontologists to realize that maybe there wasn’t just one so-called "cradle of ...

America has a track record with these kinds of occurrences. In 1859, a massive solar storm that came to be known as “The ...

Dan White murdered San Francisco city Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone. Of this, there was no doubt. White had ...

An international team of palaeontologists, behavioural scientists and neurologists have re-examined brain size and structure ...

In our modern society, we rarely consider books to be dangerous items. However, certain books contain elements so hazardous ...

Medium-sized dogs have a higher risk of developing cancer than the very largest or smallest breeds, according to a UC ...