New calculations put the date much closer than we should be comfortable with

Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.

Not everything that happened this year was terrible.

Global action is urgently needed to tackle microplastic – and the problem has never been more pressing.

Some of our favorite food crops around the world aren't reaching their full potential because of fewer visits from the insects that pollinate them, a new study has found.

Monument’s largest ‘bluestone’ moved more than 450 miles – a discovery researchers say rewrites relationships between Neolithic populations

The guitarist has spent a decade studying the science of bovine tuberculosis and identified a new method of spread.

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.

The big energy firms have largely stopped denying the scientific consensus about climate change. But behind their rhetoric about “net zero emissions,” there’s an unflinching determination to keep profiting from oil and gas, whatever the cost.

Females have twice as many copies of some genes as males do – and exactly how different species manage this imbalance has puzzled scientists for decades.

Birds in Europe are prying up the metal barbs, meant to repel them from roosting on buildings, and using the devices as nesting material

An inescapable form of human pollution is seeping into our bodies in ways we never fully realized.

Once upon a time, Earth was barren.

Books take a lot of resources to make. Digital readers do, too. What's the more sustainable option? The answer isn't straightforward.

Gray whales in a small group that sticks close to the shores of the Pacific Northwest appear to be shrinking—and shockingly quickly

People suspected the Dendra armor was ceremonial, but new tests show its utility.