Northern hemisphere summers will deliver dangerously longer heat waves, droughts and bouts of rain even if humanity manages to cap global warming at two degrees Celsius, scientists say.
A second planet has been discovered circling Beta Pictoris, a fledgling star in our own galaxy offering astronomers a rare glimpse of a planetary system in the making.
Dust from a supernova, or an exploded star, has been found in snow in Antarctica and provides ‘invaluable’ insight into our universe, according to a new study published this month.
People in impoverished communities in Indonesia are eking out a living by sorting and selling discarded trash from around the world that has made its way to their island.
An unmanned spacecraft India launched last month began orbiting the moon Tuesday as it approaches the lunar south pole to study previously discovered water deposits.
A western painted turtle that's never been anywhere other than in an aquarium is being returned to a pond near Langley, B.C., as part of captive breeding at the Greater Vancouver Zoo to help save an endangered native population.
The founder of Chinese tech giant Huawei said Tuesday he expects no relief from U.S. export curbs due to the political climate in Washington but expressed confidence the company will thrive because it is developing its own technology.
From a tiny Pacific island to a leafy Indiana forest, a handful of sites where the United States manufactured and tested some of the most lethal weapons known to humankind are now peaceful havens for wildlife.
Twitter has removed more than 900 fake accounts it said were used to ‘sow political discord’ in Hong Kong as part of a larger network of approximately 200,000 spam accounts.
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The last four members of a wolf pack that preyed on cattle in a rural Washington state area bordering Canada have been killed by state hunters, prompting protests from environmental groups.
A national not-for-profit land trust says it has expanded a conservation area on a Lake Huron island that has large forests and a long stretch of undeveloped shoreline.
