In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how butterfly habitats are being reshaped by climate change ...

A graduate of Soulsbyville Elementary and Sonora High School survived a traumatic commercial crab boat wreck in a winter ...

The Arctic tern is a slender, gull-like seabird that weighs about as much as a deck of cards, yet it undertakes the most extreme journey known in the animal kingdom. Every year it travels from ...

Scientists have discovered a new extinct amphibian species hiding in the fossil collections of Los Angeles’ La Brea Tar Pits.

China plans to send container ships along Russia’s northern coast, reviving environmental concerns about the fragile polar ...

Oil spill response: who does it, how do they prepare, what do they respond to, and what occupies their time between incidents ...

Icebreakers evolved from reinforced wooden vessels and railroad ferries into some of the most powerful specialized ships ever ...

The move by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the latest government rollback of climate science activity ...

Fresh snow and ice can reflect up to 90% of incoming sunlight. Oceans, by comparison, reflect less than 10%. This means that ...

The Arctic is undergoing rapid transformation driven by global warming, long-range transport of toxic industrial chemicals, emerging diseases, and biodiversity change, with cascading consequences for ...

A tiny fossil overlooked for decades at La Brea Tar Pits has turned out to belong to a species previously unknown to science.

Chinese research vessel Xuelong completed ice station survey operations at 12 sites during the country's 16th Arctic expedition, setting a record for the largest number of ice stations established by ...