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Light pollution prompts plants to shed pollen longer and stronger, according to new research.

The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned.

A decade-old treatment plant in San Diego County, Calif., could leave more water in the Colorado River for states facing severe shortages.

Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a "necessity."

Greenpeace International is arguing under Dutch law that an American pipeline company, Energy Transfer, sought to silence it with a costly lawsuit in North Dakota.

The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.

The lawsuit argues that it is illegal to pay the French energy giant TotalEnergies $795 million to cancel a planned wind farm off New York.

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new "declaration" by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline.

The claim that their loved ones' deaths and disappearances are linked is almost certainly false -- but the loss remains real.

The Bundibugyo virus, a little known type, previously had caused just two small outbreaks. Now it's at the center of a rapidly widening epidemic in Africa.