Environment News

A rare and dangerous fungal infection named Cryptococcus gattii has been quietly spreading from British Columbia southward to the U.S. Pacific Northwest. And it's changing as it goes

Researchers at McGill University are unlocking the mysteries of the little-known habits of dinosaurs in discovering that the entire western interior of North America was likely once populated by a single community of dinosaurs

Bees see the world almost five times faster than humans, according to new research from scientists at Queen Mary, University of London

A 3,000-year record from 52 of the world's oldest trees shows that California's western Sierra Nevada was droughty and often fiery from 800 to 1300, according to new research

In an electrifying first, Stanford scientists have plugged in to algae cells and harnessed a tiny electric current

A link between low solar activity and jet streams over the Atlantic could explain why, despite global warming trends, people in regions North East of the Atlantic Ocean might need to brace themselves for more frequent cold winters in years to come

Professor has come up with solutions for two problems that, for the last twenty years, have been hampering the development of efficient and affordable solar cells

"Supervolcanoes" have been blamed for multiple mass extinctions in Earth's history, but the cause of their massive eruptions is unknown

The vivid colors and designs animals use to interact with their environments have awed and inspired since before people learned to draw on the cave wall

The rings of preserved kauri trees, hidden in New Zealand's peat bogs, hold the secret to climate fluctuations spanning back to the end of the last Ice Age