The impact of an asteroid or comet is acknowledged as the principal cause of the mass extinction that killed off most dinosaurs and about three-quarters of the planet’s plant and animal species 66 million years ago.

University of Toronto researchers argue the key challenge with moving away from fossil fuels is "carbon lock-in," or the economic, political and social inertia that inhibits alternative energy technologies from gaining traction.

Spare a thought this Christmas for researchers hunkered down on their Polarstern icebreaker, adrift in the frozen Arctic Ocean.

CYGNSS was launched on December 15, 2016 at 13:27:21 UTC and today marks the completion of its third year on orbit.

The first year of the famine was Europe’s fourth-wettest year on record between 1290 and 2000

The heady aroma of magnolia blossoms and lotus flowers might have wafted to your nostrils if you had gone for a walk 56 million years ago in the lush green forest which covered Canada’s northernmost islands.

New research has revealed that Australia's oldest flowering plants are 126 million years old and may have resembled modern magnolias, buttercups and laurels.

Ancient air samples from one of Antarctica’s snowiest ice core sites may add a new molecule to the record of changes to Earth’s atmosphere over the past century and a half, since the Industrial Revolution began burning fossil fuels on a massive scale.

Changing land cover and use affect hurricanes, according to new research by UAH

International sustainability experts, including MSU's Jianguo "Jack" Liu, outline what's needed how the human/nature balance must change.