Thousands crowded into emergency shelters in France and Spain on Sunday after wildfires drove more than 300,000 people to ...

Scottish firefighters fought a wildfire Saturday that was burning through Cairngorms National Park in the north, with ...

In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry ...

Swidden agriculture—often called "slash-and-burn"—has been practiced on every inhabited continent throughout human history, ...

Dozens of archaeological sites were destroyed by looting during Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 and lasted until 2024.

SpaceX's mammoth Starship rocket blasted off Friday on another test flight stretching halfway around the world, this time ...

Historians and archaeologists know that maize was a central food source and cultural symbol across the ancient Maya world, ...

Modern research on secondary metabolites from microbes, plants and marine organisms has revealed a remarkable diversity of ...

Chinese astronomers report the detection of a peculiar optical transient event that occurred in the center of a dwarf galaxy.

All cells in the human body—and the motions they enable, from our beating hearts to our wiggling toes—use energy generated by ...

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)—the world's biggest fish—are one of the most charismatic marine species. They connect with the ...

A Taiwan–led study of Mandarin-speaking learners shows that the sounds we hear and produce are deeply shaped by our prior ...