Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form ...

A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying ...

Some of the oldest civilizations in North America say is the use of wastewater in snowmaking is a violation of their spirituality and health.

The tropics, where biodiversity and interactions among species abound, provide an alternative view of relationships between ...

Thomas Alvarez of the Tohono O’odham Nation looks over mountains for a site marked in his handheld GPS outside of Globe, ...

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

For the first time, a new study finds climate change is now the primary driver of biodiversity loss in the United States. Researchers examined the five predominant threats facing 2,766 imperiled ...

Giant kangaroos stayed local, and rapid climate change gradually destroyed their lush rainforest home, leading to extinction.

As New England warms, snowshoe hares are increasingly finding themselves the wrong color for camouflaging with their ...

President Trump signed an order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the ocean floor. Scientists and ...

Seaweed helps combat climate change, reduce plastic pollution, improve ocean health, and protect beaches from erosion.

The buried roots and stumps of an ancient forest in southern China are the charred remains of an ancient war and the burning ...