SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Daring tree climbers and researchers have challenged a major assumption in tree drought biology. In rainforests on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, water transport systems of a colossal, dominating family of trees are not more impaired than shorter trees in...

On Thursday, the WHO said more than 650 contacts had been identified and followed up by authorities in 33 countries and territories. It said it would continue to work with governments and partners to advance its understanding of...

Just four years after he signed the Declaration of Independence, but before the colonies would win the war that granted their freedom, Benjamin Franklin was already thinking about the future.Franklin wrote a letter in 1780 to...

Spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles to counteract global warming could expose passengers on certain commercial flights to hazardous...

Lumo 2.0 is...

It’s a hot month in London – in oh so many ways. Life, being alive and death are big...

NASA astronaut Chris Williams took this photo of an orbital sunrise from the International Space Station on June 26, 2026. In 24 hours, the space station makes 16 orbits of Earth, traveling through 16 sunrises and sunsets. Learn more about...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared light of numerous features that previously were impossible to see beyond the thick dust of the FS Tau star system. In addition to myriad background galaxies that burst into view...

A bear might seem like the scariest thing you could run into in a national park. But a new study suggests maybe you should be more worried about elk.  Out of nearly 3,000 wildlife incidents in Canadian national parks, more than half involved an elk,...

Chemical giant Monsanto has argued for years that if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approves a pesticide label without requiring a cancer warning, states cannot hold its manufacturer liable in court for failing to warn...