What would the world look like if legal systems rendered decisions based on what was best for the integrity of ecosystems? A ...

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Extreme Weather Survivors led a discussion during Climate Week NYC between scientists and Americans who have had their lives disrupted by storms and heat ...

Scientists say new studies of fossilized jaw bones show that mammals began to evolve millions of years earlier than was ...

Marine predators and the prey they prefer are both declining. Had you stopped monitoring the marine life of the Adriatic Sea ...

Researchers have discovered fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited North America during the Last Glacial Maximum, in what is now New Mexico. Credit: National ...

Using shells from the recent fossil record, researchers have determine that interactions between predator and prey in the northern Adriatic Sea have significantly declined due to human activity.

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Hidden beneath concrete at San Pedro High School, construction workers found a buried secret — thousands of marine fossils echoing Palos Verdes Peninsula’s ancient geological past. Researchers ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Hague will become the world’s first city to write into law a ban on advertising that promotes fossil ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Oil-rich nations are making a concerted effort to slow progress on a landmark UN climate agreement to end ...