Climate & Environment

More than 230 deaths have been reported in British Columbia since Friday as a historic heat wave brought record-high temperatures, officials said Tuesday. The province's chief coroner called it an "unprecedented time."

Tests are underway to pull carbon from the air and turn it into minerals belowground

Flood risk is highest in the two years immediately following a wildfire.

An intense heat wave is set to torment the Pacific Northwest. Many who have always done without air-conditioners are scrambling to get them now.

A federal investigation is under way and a Republican lawmaker is urging the Fish and Wildlife Service to designate the sea mammal as endangered, rather than threatened.

A laborer discovered the fossil and hid it in a well for 85 years. Scientists say it could help sort out the human family tree and how our species emerged.

Six months of unusual warmth in Siberia, along with a 100-degree temperature record, would not have happened without global warming.

A new report details global warming’s impact on Yellowstone Park, changes that have begun to fundamentally alter its famed ecosystem and threaten everything from its forests to Old Faithful geyser. Such troubling shifts are occurring in national parks across the U.S. West.

It only took a couple centuries.

A new study offers quantitative evidence linking psychological stress to graying hair in people.

The hazardous poison hemlock is more visible in Ohio this year than ever before, experts say. The plant can be mistaken for Queen Anne's Lace.

Philipp Brandt, Stefan Timmermans Sociological Science June 17, 2021 10.15195/v8.a10 Abstract We propose an abductive logic of scientific inference for quantitative research.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — How do astronauts do laundry in space? They don’t. They wear their underwear, gym clothes and everything else until they can’t take the filth and stink anymore, then junk them.

An environmental catastrophe is threatening Turkey's Marmara Sea.

A challenge that the famous puzzler Martin Gardner put forward long ago remains open

The mice are invading homes. They’re destroying crops. They’re chewing through appliances, sofas, cars — and livelihoods.

It’s about climate change, not basketball.

Listen now (20 min) | Micro and macro evidence on the productivity of R&D over time

The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine might mean extinction.

The structure, called a cantil, holds up the flower-bearing arm of the thale cress, a long-studied species

The estimated scheduled maintenance cost for a light-duty battery-electric vehicle (BEV) totals 6.1 cents per mile, while a conventional internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) totals 10.1 cents per mile.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The operator of California's power grid is asking residents to voluntarily conserve power for a few hours Thursday evening as record-breaking heat blankets the West this week. The California Independent System Operator issued a Flex Alert for Thursday from 5 p.m.

This study reveals that when scientists omit from the papers’ title that research findings were obtained using mice, as opposed to humans, the media tend to replicate the trend by omitting the use of mice from the news stories headlines that report on these papers, thereby perpetuating the misleading omission.

A fire aboard a container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka has led to one of the largest ecological disasters in the country’s history.