Experts think they may have uncovered what the first ever animal on Earth looked like after ancient chemical signals were found. For as long as scientists have understood evolution, the debate over ...

For decades, forest, grasslands and other land ecosystems have collectively absorbed up to a third of the carbon dioxide we ...

The probable tracksite was brought to our attention from a site near Walker Bay on the Cape south coast by an ardent tracker, Mike Fabricius. It is around 76,000 years old. We found the probable ...

The Trump administration wasted no time in tapping individuals with ties to fossil fuel industries and right-wing think tanks funded by oil tycoons for key environmental and energy policy positions, ...

A remarkably well-preserved dinosaur embryo, unearthed from a fossilized egg in southern China, is offering scientists an ...

Jeff Young is Newsweek's Environment and Sustainability Editor based in Louisville, Kentucky. His focus is climate change and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness ...

Professor Marcus Foston, of Washington University St. Louis, helped develop a new process using byproducts from soybean oil, ...

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, ...

Ever since scientists began to understand evolution, they've been arguing over the contentious question of what, exactly, the ...

Rock hyraxes, known in southern Africa more often as "dassies", are furry, thickset creatures with short legs and no ...

A recent study has made microscopic fossils messengers from a warmer world, showing that the tropical Pacific Ocean could be ...