Wynne Parry

A climate reconstruction shows one of the most rapidly warming places on Earth has heated up nearly as fast in the distant past.

The shift from coal to natural gas helped fuel a drop in carbon dioxide emissions this year.

Individuals and groups are crucial to getting the most threatened species protection, a study says.

This year so far ranks as the 10th warmest on record globally.

A newly devised ranking system evaluates the health of individual countries’ waters too.

Arctic sea ice extent may be headed for a record low next month.

Desert conditions inspired the Chinchorro people of South America to create mummies, researchers say.

Strange stone and clay cylinders may have been used to make fire 8,000 years ago.

It’s not because they burn more calories, researchers say.

A study that concluded that changes in local climate cause plants to shift uphill is under attack.

The oblong rocksnail isn’t extinct, but now lives in only a small section of its former range.

Unusual temperatures last month pushed it past the record holder: 1936.

James Hansen's latest study highlights how scientists don't agree on humans' role in weather.

The fossil dealer who attempted to sell a possibly smuggled tyrannosaur skeleton has made a claim to prevent it from going to the feds.

The feds say they discovered that an antiques dealer was double crossing them.

About half of the airborne particles and droplets found over North America are foreign.

An antiques dealer double crossed the feds to secretly purchase illegal horns, authorities say.

Flawed data have inflated the warming trend, climate-change skeptics report.

A flu virus appears to have jumped from birds into New England seals.

Ceramic vessels found in the tomb hint at his identity and when he died.

Experts project an unusually warm July.

Intense heat over the country's middle has not expanded, sparing many of us from an extreme summer.

Ancient terracotta statues, seized in a New York City airport, were returned to Nigerian custody.

Skin microbes appear to stimulate our immune cells, preparing them to fight.

A species of termite sends older workers on suicide missions, scientists say.