The recent Israeli–United States war with Iran sent oil prices soaring worldwide, and Canada was no exception. In some ...

Earlier this month, Wellington declared a local state of emergency, including evacuation orders, when forecast powerful ...

The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in Earth's protective layer of ...

Climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent and more intense across sub-Saharan Africa. Floods, droughts, heat waves ...

A new estimate of insect species globally finds that there may be 8 million to 14 million more species than people thought, ...

A new study has revealed an unexpected link between solar storms and the flux of high-energy cosmic rays arriving at Earth.

New research led by the University of New England's Dr. Timothy Chapman has uncovered the trigger behind slow earthquakes, ...

Australia's Great Southern Reef is built not by coral but by seaweed. The seaweed forests on these rocky reefs stretch more ...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have uncovered a critical, underrecognized trade-off in global environmental ...

The first findings from a major survey of more than 800 young people ages 11–17 about social media were revealed to local ...

In the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes in northern Venezuela, which by Friday had killed more than 500 people and left ...

When does a child begin to reason? When do they develop self-control? Are some mental abilities present from birth, while ...