A proposal by state Sen. Scott Wiener creates a new wrinkle in four interrelated issues: climate change, the future of ...

Neanderthals lost genetic diversity around 110,000 years ago. Researchers confirmed this by studying fossilized inner ears.

At a shocking 20 centimeters (8 inches) long and 5 centimeters (2 inches) wide, this coprolite is the largest intact piece of ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Fossil fuel executives and lobbyists lead us to believe that climate change is distant and complicated. They profit from ...

Groups file OECD complaint against the world’s largest advertising and PR firm, say its work enables major polluters to harm ...

The skeletal remains were found by an employee of a roofing company off I-83 in Fairview Township in December.

Australopithecus came before us, but that doesn't tell us which specific individual species is our ancestor. The fossil ...

The 1.5 million acre Lake Mead National Recreation Area covers “mountains, canyons, valleys and two vast lakes,” the National ...