San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the rugged, western Argentine province fear ...

Growing up in Tahiti, Anna-Bella Failloux saw firsthand the threat posed by mosquitoes: Nearly a third of adults on the ...

Dwarf mongooses anticipate encounters with rival groups and adjust how they move, communicate and defend resources beforehand, according to new research from the University of Bristol. The study, ...

The EU must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040 relative to 1990—of which 5 percentage points can be achieved ...

Venus' bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new ...

In the crystalline waters off Kenya's coast, coral reefs are thriving—evidence of a rare good-news story in the battle to protect oceans from the ravages of climate change.

When stars like our sun age, they puff up into red giants. Their bubbling outer mass gradually escapes into space, and their ...

Researchers around the world are racing to develop new quantum-based systems for sensing, communication, computing and ...

The warm Gulf Stream is maintained by coldness. The Barents Sea is a cooling machine. To predict how ocean currents in the ...

Traditional global climate models were like early digital cameras—they had only about 10,000 pixels to cover the entire planet. At that low resolution, big storm systems looked like blurry blobs. You ...

Traditional legal systems around the world are increasingly ill-equipped to cope with the fast-moving impact of climate ...

Coatings are everywhere. A thin protective layer, often barely visible. They keep out moisture, sunlight and rust, helping ...