Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Scientists can’t know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale warning signs ...

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon ...

Cassius the 17-foot saltwater crocodile was captured in 1984 after he started attacking cattle and boat propellers. He died ...

This year's U.N. climate summit - COP29 - is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures ...

Sequencing hundreds of samples of material collected from the vast network of quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides ), a team ...

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old ...

The fossil was on display in a museum, but unlabeled and hidden right under paleontologists’ noses for 20 years.

Scientists around the world expressed disappointment and alarm as Republican ... Others, however, are focused on what a ...

As humans heat up the world by burning fossil fuels, whales are increasingly vulnerable. Warmer ocean temperatures can affect ...

The world’s biggest polluters and strongest economies — China and the United States — aren’t sending their No. 1s. Neither ...