Orcas living off Europe's Iberian coast recently struck and sunk a yacht in the Strait of Gibraltar. Scientists suspect that this is the third …
An extremely rare and potentially deadly albino cobra had to be removed from a house in India after the white snake slithered in during a severe rain…
This weekend, the full 'Flower Moon' will move through part of Earth's shadow and be eclipsed for a few hours. The event that will be vis…
A team of Chinese scientists has discovered a giant new sinkhole with a forest at its bottom. The sinkhole is 630 feet (192 meters) deep, accordin…
Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably point to South America. But North America has rainforests too – and lik…
For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the Industrial Revolution, as artificial light increa…
Bill Gates is widely known for his business acumen and humanitarian efforts. But the co-founder of Microsoft and multibillionaire philanthropist has …
For at least five years, a pair of serial killer whales in South Africa has been slaughtering great white sharks and eating their livers. (No fava …
At least two individuals of the Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) live in Sagarmatha National Park, Mount Everest region, eastern Nepal, according to …
The Doomsday Clock, created 76 years ago by atomic scientists to warn against a human-made apocalypse, has moved to 90 seconds to midnight. Russia&…
Scientists have revealed the preferential areas in rooms where people can avoid the risk of exposure to supersonic shock waves from a nuclear explosi…
A never-before-seen emperor penguin colony — one of only 66 known to exist — has been spotted by accident in satellite photographs of West Antarcti…
Fast-melting glaciers are releasing staggering amounts of bacteria into rivers and streams, which could transform icy ecosystems, scientists warn. …
On 29 August 2020, near the town of Whitehorse in Yukon, Canada, Thomas Jung – a wildlife biologist with the Government of Yukon's Department o…
The world's wildlife populations have plunged by more than two thirds in just 50 years, according to a leading scientific assessment. Humanity…
Mass migration towards the Earth’s poles will help humanity survive the climate crisis, as the planet could warm by more than 4 degrees Celsius by th…
Beavers are now a protected species in England, 400 years after they were hunted to extinction. As of 1 October, it is illegal to deliberately capt…
More than eight months after the underwater volcano near Tonga erupted on Jan. 14, scientists are still analyzing the impacts of the violent blast, a…