With D.C. seeing more heat waves every year, climate change experts predict that by the 2050s the District is in store for 30 to 40 extreme heat days each year with temperatures cresting 95 degrees.

Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even ...

Residents, forestry staff have close eye on Davis Ridge It’s been more than a year since Denise Moore received notice that ...

Mama Rosa, the 25-foot, 4,000-pound troll built by Danish artist Thomas Dambo, now stands tall in the new Firefly Grove Park ...

Pine Hollow Arboretum is one of many botanical gardens rethinking their planting strategies as the climate warms. These ...

Their idea was simple: an eclipse is a profound event that inspires awe and collective behavior in both humans and other ...

Some states are allowing private companies to decide which people in prison are allowed to contact their family members.

In this photo provided by researchers, a wild male chimpanzee drums on a buttress tree while producing a ... the drumming is a form of long-distance communication, perhaps to alert other chimps ...

Is there life after extinction? Some scientists and conservationists are trying to find out A wave of new owners brings fresh energy to independent bookselling Rapidly expanding school voucher ...

(AP) — Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago.

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows ... that the drumming is a form of long-distance communication, perhaps to alert other chimps where one ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago. Scientists suspect this ...