AP’s climate team examined how man-made decisions are hurting the environment—and, in turn, hurting people—through three distinct stories from around the ...

The Mojave Desert may lose and gain suitable habitat for Gila monsters. But the unathletic reptiles might be mostly stuck in the waning oases.

Respect, dignity, and trust, as well as hate, indifference, and disdain all play out in small moments of communication, which ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Back in January, a massive chunk of ice the size of Chicago broke off from an ice sheet on Antarctica’s coast. Exploring the waters this oversized block of ice once covered, scientists found — to ...

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.