NEW YORK: Is there anything firefighters could have done to control the blaze that tore through Paris’ historic Notre Dame Cathedral sooner? Experts say the...
WASHINGTON: Earth’s glaciers are melting much faster than scientists thought. A new study shows they are losing 369 billion tons of snow and ice each year,...
WASHINGTON: Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says. Climate change, a global...
WASHINGTON: Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his...
WASHINGTON: North isn’t quite where it used to be. Earth’s north magnetic pole has been drifting so fast in the last few decades that scientists say that past...
WASHINGTON: Language detectives say that the key clues to who wrote the anonymous New York Times opinion piece slamming U.S. President Donald Trump may not be...
WASHINGTON: A warmer world means more and hungrier insects chomping on crops and less food on dinner plates, a new study suggests. Insects now consume about...
WASHINGTON: When you weigh all life on Earth, billions of humans don’t amount to much compared to trees, earthworms or even viruses. But we really know how to...
WASHINGTON: It’s a double cosmic conundrum: Lots of stuff that was already invisible has gone missing. Astronomers have found a distant galaxy where there is...
WASHINGTON: Everyone knew of Stephen Hawking’s cosmic brilliance, but few could comprehend it. Not even top-notch astronomers.Hawking, who died at his home in...
WASHINGTON: After the Big Bang, it was dark and cold. And then there was light. Now, for the first time, astronomers have glimpsed that dawn of the universe...
WASHINGTON: When it comes to weather, it’s hard to sound scarier than “bomb cyclone.” It’s a version of a real weather term that applies to a massive winter...
WASHINGTON: Anchorage, Alaska, was warmer Tuesday than Jacksonville, Florida. The weather in the U.S. is that upside down. That’s because the...
WASHINGTON: It was a faint signal, but it told of one of the most violent acts in the universe, and it would soon reveal secrets of the cosmos, including how...
WASHINGTON: Nearly 300 species of fish, mussels and other sea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Japanese tsunami, washing...
WASHINGTON: While Monday’s total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be a once-in-a-lifetime sky show for millions, there’s a small group of people who have...
WASHINGTON: Killer heat is getting worse, a new study shows.Deadly heat waves like the one now broiling the American West are bigger killers than previously...
WASHINGTON: Make fun of the weatherman if you want but modern forecasts have quietly, by degrees, become much better. Meteorologists are now as good with...
WASHINGTON: Earth is likely to reach more dangerous levels of warming even sooner if the U.S. retreats from its pledge to cut carbon dioxide pollution,...
WASHINGTON: The call of the wild is getting harder to hear.Peaceful, natural sounds – bird songs, rushing rivers and rustling grass – are sometimes being...
WASHINGTON: Astronomers have found yet another planet that seems to have just the right Goldilocks combination for life: Not so hot and not so cold. It’s not...
WASHINGTON: The frigid top of the Earth just set yet another record for low levels of sea ice in what scientists say is a signal of an overheating world.The...
WASHINGTON: If you want to go to your happy place, you need more than cash. A winter coat helps – and a sense of community. A new report shows Norway is...
WASHINGTON: Eating like a caveman meant chowing down on woolly rhinos and sheep in Belgium, but munching on mushrooms, pine nuts and moss in Spain. It all...
WASHINGTON: It’s a scary world out there, risk experts agree, but they say Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton often focus on the wrong dangers – fixing on...