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A study by the Center for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has revealed that reducing fossil fuel emissions might have greater climate benefits than afforestation.

The North and South Nodes are one of the most significant transits to consider so here's your horoscope ahead of game-changing time

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Travel back with me a few hundred years to before the industrial revolution, and the wildlife of Britain and Ireland looks very different indeed. Take orcas: while there are now less than ten left in Britain’s only permanent (and non-breeding) resident population, around 250 years ago the English cleric and…

Because of climate change, summers are getting hotter and more humid – much more humid. SciLine interviewed Dr. W. Larry Kenney, professor of physiology and kinesiology at Penn State University, who discussed why humid heat can be dangerous to human health and, in some cases, life-threatening; how heat stresses the…

An exoplanet orbiting a young star is carving out spiral arms in the gas and dust that is birthing its planetary system.

'Wonderful Days,' or 'Sky Blue,' is an overlooked mid-aughts anime that feels all-too prescient.

Gullies on Mars may have formed when the Red Planet was highly tilted on its side, triggering dramatic shifts in climate that sent water cascading down slopes to carve out ravines.

LOS ANGELES — Writer-director Savanah Leaf never forgot how her life changed at 16, when she met her future sister's birth mother, a young woman not much older than herself.