For as long as there have been people in what is now California, the granite peaks of the Sierra Nevada have held masses of ...

A new study has found that UK Members of Parliament (MPs) and the public overestimate the time left to meet a critical ...

Inner Mongolian herder Dorj looked bitterly at the vast grasslands where his flock once grazed freely, before the practice ...

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A study published today in Earth System Dynamics provides a critical and previously underestimated connection between ...

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Donald Trump's assault on science could threaten the United States' position as the world's leading research nation and have knock-on effects worldwide, Nobel Prize officials in Sweden told AFP.

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A brutal childhood, glorified toughness, destructive images of masculinity: the recent scandal surrounding Elon Musk's father ...

New research shows that populations of dozens of waterbird and seabird species have been declining for much longer than ...

Price-fixing, bribery, and fraud are leading forms of corporate crime. Since the early 2000s, deferred or non-prosecution ...

Over the past decade, a growing movement to restrict access to books in public schools and libraries has spread across the ...