Lower summer temperatures and more winter snowfall could be contributing to glacier growth, a surprising find that may shed light on the regionally varying effects of global warming.
The announcement of a successful five-mile-deep (eight-kilometer-deep) oil well in the Gulf of Mexico might herald a new age of deepwater drilling, experts say.
This week: many dinosaurs still to be found, kangaroo birth control, eagle ancestors may have eaten early humans, rare cloud in Antarctica, death of "Crocodile Hunter," more.
Bubbles of the greenhouse gas, born of global warming, are bursting into the atmosphere in Siberia and making that warming even warmer, scientists say.
Weather forecasters have again downgraded their forecast for this hurricane season, this time because of the possibility of a weather phenomenon called El Niño.
A five-year study of South Carolina pine forests offers proof of the widely practiced but controversial theory that corridors linking nature reserves help species diversity.
Despite ongoing turmoil between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, ecologists are finding time to give endangered sea turtles a boost in the Mediterranean Sea.
Powerful storm will most likely veer into the Pacific's open waters without striking land, though there is a small chance the hurricane will turn toward Mexico, according to weather experts.
Marooned amid rising waters, many residents refused to leave their livestock, one of the most valuable assets in a country heavily dependent on agriculture.
Go beneath the surface with a pair of Antarctic divers and witness some of the world's oddest creatures: fish with "antifreeze," thousand-year-old sponges—perhaps even a new species.
