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 ...

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.

With their massive flapping ears and long trunks, it isn't hard to believe that elephants tend to rely on acoustic and olfactory cues for communication. They use gestures and visual displays to ...

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