About 22,000 years ago, a giant brown bear lumbered across what is now Portugal. The creature weighed around 385 kg (about 850 pounds), making it one of the largest of its kind ever found, dwarfing ...

In most everyday materials, such as copper, silver and silicon, the behavior of electrons is relatively predictable. In ...

As dawn breaks over Ghana's Atlantic coast, artisanal fishing boats return to shore with last night's catch—baskets of ...

Human-caused climate change has intensified a drought across Europe, with extreme heat rather than low rainfall driving the ...

Keeping food waste out of landfills provides climate and other environmental benefits, and Vermont requires residents to divert these materials to better management pathways. With other states ...

Britain's record-breaking June heat wave resulted in some 24 million lost hours of work, costing the economy £1.15 billion ...

Orcas are known to be smart and ruthless hunters. They've been observed hunting a variety of prey, with some species, such as ...

A new study of incarcerated women in Chile reveals that women respond to imprisonment in very different ways: While most ...

Consumer behavior accounts for almost two-thirds of global greenhouse gas emissions. Research published in the International ...

In Tunisia, long power outages across the country have added to the strain of an intense heat wave, with temperatures as high as 49°C (120°F), leaving many fearing for their livelihoods.

Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a new way to add large pieces of ...

Anyone who has boiled a pot of water understands that it takes both time and energy to raise the temperature, so it may come ...