Science

HOUSTON — He’s known as the father of environmental justice, but more than half a century ago he was just...

The edge of the observable universe is about 270,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away.If you drive at a steady 65 miles per hour,...

Then, having insisted he doesn’t yet know what the last book will be since it’s not done, he hurries on:...

Although an Augustóbriga aqueduct, paved roads and thermal baths were sacrificed to the dam, a second-century A.D. temple, known as...

In December 1988, two Department of Transportation workers in north Georgia found a young woman’s body on Interstate 59 in...

GEORGETOWN, Calif. — Waves of fire swept through the Sierra Nevada forest, churning up smoke and leaving charred vegetation behind...

Fleets of tiny translucent umbrellas, each about the size of a lentil, waft through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea....

WELLS, Nev. — Horace Smith blew up a lot of beaver dams in his life.A rancher here in northeastern Nevada,...

In August, a couple of days before his 68th birthday, Leslie Scott, a cattle rancher in Vivian, S.D., went to...

YAKIMA, Wash. — The water managers of the Yakima River basin in arid Central Washington know what it’s like to...