The beach shrinks every year in Ayetoro, in southern Nigeria, and what is left is peppered with the remains of homes swallowed by the ocean—some years ago, some just months prior.

Clean-up efforts were underway Sunday as Hurricane Lala, which was downgraded to a tropical storm, rolled past Hawaii's Big ...

South America was a frightening place during the Miocene. More than 10 million years ago, a vast lake covered much of the ...

Islands are widely recognized as natural laboratories of evolution. The ocean restricts movement among islands, allowing ...

You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact ...

Hurricane Lala was pulling away from Hawaii's Big Island early Sunday as heavy rain and strong winds struck the U.S. Pacific ...

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars' moons to retrieve samples that may unlock the origins of the solar system ...

Researchers at Rice University have found that gently squeezing a crystal of iron sulfide can change two of its unusual ...

Humans love dogs, but petting them can leave some people sneezing and wheezing. About 15% of the world's population lives ...

A new study from Murdoch University has found that the introduced plant disease Phytophthora dieback is indirectly hindering quendas in Western Australia's jarrah forests by reducing their habitat ...

Firefighters battled for a second day Sunday to contain a forest fire on the Greek Aegean island of Skyros, as the local ...

A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic as part of a new weekly service on a route that cuts ...