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A deadly tornado and a rare feat for storm chasers...
As a deadly tornado cut a path across Iowa last month, storm chasers tracked it, gathering rare data that is now offerin...
Levels of contamination in the Seine remain unsafe...
Levels of contamination in Paris’ River Seine remain unsafe for Olympians to compete, with just over a month until the g...
California to become third state to mandate heat p...
California is poised to pass the state’s first regulations to protect indoor workers from extreme heat — a policy that c...
The Iberian lynx is back from the brink of extinct...
The Iberian lynx was on the brink of extinction just over two decades ago. But the animal, native to Spain and Portugal,...
Climate change made killer heat wave in Southwest ...
This month’s heat in the Southwestern U.S., Mexico and Central America was 35 times more likely and 2.5 degrees hotter b...
A giant dinosaur roamed Montana with blade-like ho...
Anyone wandering 78 million years ago through the swamplands of modern day Montana may have come across a dinosaur so un...
So long plastic air pillows: Amazon shifting to re...
Amazon is shifting from the plastic air pillows used for packaging in North America to recycled paper because it’s more ...
A record-breaking number of mosquitoes are carryin...
A record-breaking number of mosquitoes in and around Las Vegas are carrying West Nile virus, sparking warnings from loca...
Colombian family’s genes offer new clue to delayin...
Scientists studying a Colombian family plagued by early-in-life Alzheimer’s found some family members carry a mutation t...
Collecting sex-crazed zombie cicadas on speed: Sci...
A nasty fungus can take control over a cicada, producing amphetamine in the critter and making them hypersexual, thereby...
White House swears in first class of American Clim...
The Biden administration on Tuesday swore in the first class of the American Climate Corps, a federal program that is me...
Olympic hopefuls speak out about fears of severe s...
Ahead of the Paris Olympics, athletes are voicing fears of a summer heat wave, saying the effects of climate change coul...
Extremes collide in Florida: Summer weather and De...
As the Northern Hemisphere tiptoes into summer, Florida is already in the crosshairs of what is likely to be a season of...
FDA advises Covid vaccine makers to target new con...
The FDA advised drugmakers to update Covid vaccines to target the KP.2 strain, a descendant of the highly contagious JN....
NASA accidentally airs space station emergency dri...
NASA has been forced to reassure the public that there is no emergency aboard the International Space Station, after aud...
Georgia residents are fighting efforts to build a ...
A plan to build a massive monkey-breeding facility that could eventually house 30,000 long-tailed macaques in a small Ge...
Feel grief when a favorite TV show ends? You’re no...
A study found that fans of the Australian show “Neighbours” experienced genuine grief and loss after the show was cancel...
A giant, ‘sunbathing’ fish that washed ashore in O...
A giant species of fish that was first discovered seven years ago washed ashore in Oregon last week, according to marine...