Global efforts to limit climate change require deep cuts to carbon emissions. However, global emissions are still growing.

Birch bark pitch. (Jorre/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) Relatives of modern humans may have created and used a sticky ...

A great-grandmother’s medicine tested positive for cocaine – spawning a 15-month legal nightmare, forcing her to refinance ...

For more than 40 years, the Golden State Killer haunted California. A serial rapist and murderer active in the 1970s and '80s, he eluded detectives for decades. By 2018, hope of identifying him was ...

Calls to national poisoning centers concerning the herb kratom have skyrocketed since 2015, new research has found.

As climate change outpaces the ability of ecosystems to adapt, scientists are turning to conservation genomics to guide ...

Colorectal cancer has long been associated with older adults, but a new study suggests that may be changing. While incidence rates have fallen steadily ...

On paper, rising temperatures should push forests steadily uphill. In practice, the world’s alpine treelines are doing something far less tidy. A global study published in April 2026 in the ...

Friends of Oregon has launched a new online hub this week that aims to give Oregon towns and rural communities something they ...

Deep in the rain‑drenched forests of southern India, scientists climbed into old tree holes expecting to find tiny freshwater ...

If we keep (AI) a dark secret, they will delve into it anyway. I try to keep them safe,” said Jodi Flom Nathanson, library ...

When I was a teenager in the early 1980s, I realized the potential of using video games in education. The same high school classmates who couldn’t pass a test at school could somehow remember what ...