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For decades, the question of how and whether gray wolves should be legally protected has been debated through federal ...

With more than half the world now living in cities and urban land cover expected to increase by about 1.2 million square ...

Inhabiting Mars has long been a futuristic fantasy fueled by science fiction. However, successful landings over the past half ...

A study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics by a researcher from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...

Today's avocado industry, a multi-billion-dollar global enterprise, relies primarily on a single variety: the Hass avocado.

New research has cast doubt over suggestions that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland more ...

From sugar plantations in Brazil to tea estates in India, crushed rock is being sprinkled across large stretches of farmland ...

An intense and nearly historic weather pattern is cooking much of America under a dangerous heat dome this week with ...

Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves, and the problem isn't going away anytime soon. An increasingly hot ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from ...