Large-scale tree planting to fight climate change may backfire, two new studies have found.

China's notorious dog-meat festival has opened in defiance of a government campaign to improve animal welfare and reduce risks to health highlighted by the novel coronavirus outbreak, but activists are hopeful its days are numbered. The annual 10-day festival…

LONDON (Reuters) - At the edge of the desert in North Khorasan province in northeast Iran, near the country’s largest deposit of bauxite, sits an aluminium production complex that the government has publicly hailed as a key part of its efforts to boost output…

Researchers found that air pollution, smoking and a person’s built environment may play role in obesity in children

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In South Asia, days with both extreme heat and extreme pollution are expected to increase 175% by 2050. Separately, the health effects are bad; together they will likely be worse.

With direct brain stimulation, mice learned to recognize an imaginary scent—and helped researchers understand a key piece of the olfactory puzzle.

Record heat is hastening the dissolution of Siberian permafrost, perennially frozen ground that, when thawed, unleashes greenhouse gases and dramatically destabilizes the land.

Flying snakes are able to undulate their bodies as they glide through the air, and those unique movements allow them to make such flights, scientists have found.

A new study warns that the strain of H1N1, common on China’s pig farms since 2016, should be “urgently” controlled to avoid another pandemic.

Mining strips nitrogen from the soil and means the forest struggles to grow back even after mines are abandoned. 

Beijing says Britain will ‘bear all consequences’ of helping fleeing Hongkongers

By looking inward, Narendra Modi is missing a huge opportunity

Archaeologists have for the first time found Aboriginal artefacts on the seabed off Australia, opening a door to the discovery of ancient settlements flooded since the last ice age, they reported Thursday. Hundreds of ancient stone tools made by Australia's…

The stretch of six genes seems to increase the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus.

Dinosaurs are thought of as giant creatures, but new work adds to evidence they started out small.

There are now more than a million nonnative animals belonging to 125 species on ranches across the state. Despite controversy, the industry continues to grow.

Although it seems obvious there would be a southern equivalent to the northern lights, the Aurora Australis might be the southern hemisphere’s best-kept secret.

Scientists have discovered the first direct evidence of the so-called Gulf Stream “blender effect” where the waters mix on either side of the current.

Making precise changes to the genomes of mitochondria within our cells could lead to treatments for disorders that can result in muscle weakness or even death in early childhood

Mussels in the lakes, themselves invasive species, may not be able to outcompete Asian carp for food, as previously thought