The name change to Gulf of America is the first since the 1540s where various maps referred to it as the Mexican Gulf, Golpho ...

The world's peatlands are "dangerously under-protected", warns a new study, despite their critical role in storing vast ...

The planet is tidally locked to its star, which means one side is always facing it and, for that reason, has a scorching ...

Madagascar just pulled off the unthinkable, going toe-to-toe with Russia, Iran, and China in the elite world of caviar. The island nation best known for its tropical beaches and lemurs is now Africa’s ...

Flood threats remained in effect across Kentucky on Monday following heavy rainfall and snowmelt over the weekend that ...

Last year, astronomers discovered an unusual Earth-size exoplanet they believe has a hemisphere of molten lava, with its ...

More than 150 false killer whales have been stranded on an isolated beach in the Australian state of Tasmania, with rescue crews trying to save the majority of the large dolphins that survived the ...

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Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Arizona lawmakers are considering a bill that would require state agencies and local governments to cooperate with federal ...

A weak tropical low may form in the trough in the northwestern Coral Sea later this week, before drifting slowly eastward and away from the Queensland east coast over the weekend. Mostly cloudy. High ...