The Trump administration cut a NOAA program that had tracked weather events that caused at least $1 billion in damage. A ...

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

Text by Andrew Burmon Photograph by wereldmuis, via Flickr The Declaration of Independence endowed us with the right to ...

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President Obama creates a national monument in Delaware, finally bringing the National Park Service to all 50 states.

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Could a geological disaster be brewing beneath the surface of Yellowstone National Park? Many scientists and curious ...

A series of earthquakes have been recorded in the Canary Islands in recent days including a tremor measuring 3.4 on the ...

Animal bones are full of collagen, calcium, and minerals—and are even more nutritious than meat. We asked food scientists how to make them part of your diet. There’s more value in bones than collagen ...

The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder and leader of the Church of ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Putting people into sleep mode is a sci-fi concept that's a lot closer to becoming real than you might think. Erin Belback is part of an ongoing human trial backed by NASA that aims to replicate the ...