How do animals react during a total solar eclipse? Scientists plan to find out...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When a total solar eclipse transforms day into night, will tortoises start acting romantic? Will giraffes gallop? Will apes sing odd...
A small earthquake and ‘Moodus Noises’ are nothing new for one Connecticut town
Donna Lindstrom was lying in bed and looking at her phone Wednesday morning when she heard a loud bang that rattled her 19th-century house...
Fewer fish and more algae? Scientists seek to understand impacts of historic lack of...
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Michigan Tech University biologists have been observing a remote Lake Superior island's fragile wolf population every winter since 1958, but...
Global hot streak continues. February, winter, world’s oceans all break high temperature marks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the...
Study raises questions about plastic pollution’s effect on heart health
We breathe, eat and drink tiny particles of plastic. But are these minuscule specks in the body harmless, dangerous or somewhere in between?A small...
Ancient stone tools found in Ukraine date to over 1 million years ago, and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe, according to...
Mexico City drought causes rainwater catchment basin to catch fire and burn for a...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City’s drought and water shortage is so bad that one of the capital’s rainwater catchment basins caught fire Tuesday,...
Mexican gray wolves boost their numbers, but a lack of genetic diversity remains a...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The wild population of Mexican gray wolves in the southwestern U.S. is still growing, but environmental groups are warning that...
What is a whale native to the North Pacific doing off New England? Climate...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scientists have confirmed the presence of a whale off New England that went extinct in the Atlantic Ocean two centuries...
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have less oxygen than expected, a finding that might put...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research suggests there's less oxygen on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa than thought — and that...