Science

The exceptional warmth that first enveloped the planet last summer is continuing strong into 2024: Last month clocked in as...

Around 717 million years ago, Earth’s humid landscapes and roiling blue waters transformed into a frigid, barren world. Scientists nicknamed...

Male elephant seals are not known for their paternal instincts. While splayed out on the beach during the breeding season,...

One July morning in 2012, climate scientist Michael Mann woke up to a terse email from a fellow scientist.“Holy crap,”...

On Saturday, NASA’s Juno orbiter got a second close-up with Io, Jupiter’s third-largest moon and the most volcanic world of...

The United States government has placed detained immigrants in solitary confinement more than 14,000 times in the last five years,...

The creature was tiny, about the size and color of a grain of rice. Dan Distel, director of the Ocean...

Two far-flung corners of the world, known for their temperate climates, are being buffeted by deadly disasters. Wildfires have killed...

Since the dawn of the industrial age, our species has warmed the planet by considerably more than today’s most widely...

Even as the signals of approaching dementia became impossible to ignore, Joseph Drolet dreaded the prospect of moving his partner...