Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

In 1832, Tatsu Takayama made a defiant climb up to the top of Mount Fuji dressed as a man. This is the story of her historic ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

“They were rendered invisible,” says Michael Méndez, a sociologist at the University of California, Irvine, who wrote a ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...

The Philippines is frequently called the most disaster-prone country in the world, and it continually struggles with natural disasters. These events are made worse by problems with how the country is ...

All of Jamaica’s financial defenses — insurance, bonds and credit lines — could be deployed to recover from Hurricane Melissa ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

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That’s precisely what professional ski mountaineer Jim Morrison did on October 15, 2025, when he became the first person in ...

As part of heightened measures to respond to the threat posed by Tropical Storm Melissa, the government has doubled its ...

Unusually warm ocean temperatures fueled one of the worst hurricanes on record. New research finds climate change increased ...