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The world is facing the 'moment of crisis' on climate change and cannot delay action any longer, British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough warned in an interview broadcast Thursday.

Harsh winter weather on British Columbia's south coast has frozen out the area's resident hummingbirds.

Microsoft is pledging to become 100% 'carbon-negative' by 2030 by removing more carbon from the environment than it emits.

Members of the European Parliament held a hearing this week aimed at getting tech giants to use a single universal charger for all their various cellphones, tablets and e-readers.

A U.S. startup focused on 'invisible computing' Thursday unveiled a smart contact lens which delivers an augmented reality display in a user's field of vision.

The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists said they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records.

A dozen individuals have been ordered to pay thousands of dollars in damages for defamatory statements they made in an internet chat forum, even though the plaintiffs don't know who they are and collecting will likely prove difficult.

A Turkish court on Wednesday lifted a ban on Wikipedia after almost three years.

Specialist firefighters have saved the world's last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, Australian officials have said. 7

Spacewalking astronauts had to make do with fewer lights and camera views from one helmet Wednesday while performing critical battery work outside the International Space Station. 1

A team of scientists have found a way to build brand-new, programmable life-forms from scratch using frog stem cells, creating what researchers are calling 'xenobots.' 2

The world's oceans were the hottest in recorded history in 2019, scientists said on Tuesday, as manmade emissions warmed seas at an ever-increasing rate with potentially disastrous impacts on Earth's climate.

Fifty years ago, a meteorite fell to Earth and landed in Australia, carrying with it a rare sample from interstellar space. A new analysis of the meteorite revealed stardust that formed between five to seven billion years ago. That makes the meteorite and its stardust the oldest solid material ever discovered on Earth.