If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you're stepping on dead leaves, twigs and soil. In reality, ...

Since 1970, 73% of global wildlife has been lost, while the world's population has doubled to 8 billion. Research shows this ...

Understanding randomness is crucial in many fields. From computer science and engineering to cryptography and weather ...

A rare blanket of heavy snow fell on parts of northeastern Turkey on Friday as other parts of the country battled a growing ...

For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Imagine the magnificent glaciers of Greenland, the eternal snow of the Tibetan high mountains, and the permanently ice-cold ...

University of Sydney researchers have harnessed human-made lightning to develop a more efficient method of generating ammonia ...

Dodging fire-ants, snakes and millions of nighttime creepy-crawlies, a group of trekkers advances through the humid Bornean ...

A polar air mass has brought record low temperatures to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, causing at least 15 deaths and forcing ...

Firefighters early Friday gained control over a major wildfire in the western Turkish province of Izmir but two others ...

The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland's glaciers has already melted away, a monitoring service said, with ...