In a canyon on the Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah, a single quaking aspen has spread itself across 106 acres of hillside as roughly 47,000 genetically identical stems sharing one root ...

The colonel who took power in Madagascar four months ago arrived in Moscow Wednesday for talks with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said, weeks after Russia sent the island military equipment.

In September 2007, a Russian Foton-M3 capsule fell back through Earth’s atmosphere carrying a payload that would rewrite what biologists thought animals could endure. Bolted to the outside of the ...

Fifty-five Cuban and Venezuelan military personnel were killed during the US raid to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, according to tolls published Tuesday by the two Latin American allies.

Ask almost anyone which point on Earth is closest to space and you’ll hear “Everest” straight away. It’s the answer taught in schools, printed in atlases, repeated at trivia nights. And it quietly ...

In the Moroccan village of Ouled Salama, 63-year-old farmer Mohamed Reouani waded through his crops, now submerged by floodwaters after days of heavy downpours. Farmers in the North African kingdom ...

The world-first insemination of an Amur leopard in France has lifted hopes of animal lovers for the survival of the Earth's rarest big cat. The spotted felines, native to the banks of the Siberian ...

Ionizing radiation from nuclear disasters are known to be harmful to the natural environment. The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown that occurred in 2011 is a prominent example of such a ...

The most surprising thing about the eighth continent is not that it is underwater. It is that it used to be dry. For most of the 85 million years since Zealandia broke away from the supercontinent ...

A British court on Monday rejected Australian mining giant BHP's bid to appeal a ruling holding it liable for one of Brazil's worst environmental disasters, bringing victim compensation closer. A dam ...

The final stretch of Wisconsin State Highway 42, where the pavement bends into a wooded ridge above Green Bay before dead-ending at Northport, carries drivers through 15 curves packed into a 2.2-mile ...

Over the last 100,000 years, Australia's largest animals have undergone dramatic shifts due to waves of extinction and the arrival of invasive species, according to new research from Flinders ...