The lawsuit is the latest legal effort to hold former President Donald Trump and his allies accountable for the attack on the Capitol.

Betty White has died at age 99.

United States navy vessels seized 849 pounds of heroin in the Arabian Sea worth some $4 million, in a major bust by the international maritime operation.

On a barren lava plateau in Iceland, a new facility is sucking in air and stashing the carbon dioxide in rock. The next step: Build 10,000 more.

There's a big new telescope in space.

For the first time, grafting has been made to work in monocots, a type of plant including oats, wheats and bananas – and it might improve disease tolerance among these important crops

At work, Morgan Philpott (pictured below) cares for sick children. In his off-hours the Australian paediatric nurse turns his attention to an equally defenceless group: unwell koalas.

Photographer Mithun H camped out for six straight days to capture this stunning image

The fear that action to combat climate change has been too slow has led some scientists to test unconventional methods to stem the loss of Arctic sea ice.

Kast was searching for clear skies in Finnish Lapland to capture the beauty of a polar night when he encountered these polar stratospheric clouds.

Guide explaining how hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones form, their effects and how they are measured.

In Uttarakhand, in the western Himalayas, a local inventor discovered an unusual use for pine needles that is reviving the local economy, and the forest floor.

On a journey to Norway, "the lady in green" unexpectedly appeared for Roemmelt, making the whole sky burn with green, blue and pink colours.

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

A trove of essays in the archives of the Hoover Institution provide some insight as to what attracted everyday women to extremist ideology.

Dozens of blazes continue to rage in California with a record 2.2m acres burned. Bay Area residents awoke on Wednesday to orange skies

Families of black Americans who were injured or killed by police will speak at the historic march.

Scientists discover hundreds of different fungi in Amazonian soil, thought to play a vital role in nature.

A story for my granddaughter about oxygen, evolution, and our planet’s fate. By Walter Murch

The Himba people of Namibia can see fine details and ignore distraction much better than most other human beings – a finding that may reflect the ways that modern life is changing us.