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Most of the world's greenhouse gas comes from cities - and that's where we have to act.
Visitors to the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, home to the largest reptile display in Central Australia, were stunned by the sight of a snake who spun in circles countless times in a ring made from its own skin.
Tesla Motors wants to buy SolarCity for $2.8 billion in stock-to-stock.
It's amazing to see how the bears can sense human patterns and use us. It's actually refreshing for a change.
The secret lies in an ultra-sticky saliva that's 400 times more adhesive than human spit, a new study reveals.
There may be a fine line between how baby birds learn to sing and humans learn to speak.
Sueur and Pelé have seen Japanese macaques washing potatoes, riding deer for transportation, taking hot-spring baths, handling stones, fighting with snowballs and many other things you'd class as "human". They've written a book about these amazing monkeys which will be out soon.
After studying prairie dogs for 25 years, one researcher believes he figured out what prairie dogs are communicating about. He believes that the animals are not only very efficient communicators, but they also have an eye for details. Gunnison’s prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) is one of five species of the prairie dog. Their name is […]
There's only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found -- and you're looking at it.
Higher qualifications, fewer jobs. What's happening?
The golden age of black oil is ending says a new report
2016 will go in history as the first year carbon emission stay above 400ppm all year round. I don't think anyone's proud about this.
It was a cute rodent, off the northern coast of Australia, on an island by the Great Barrier Reef. Now it's gone, because of us.
It's good news for us, but perhaps not good news for the rodents.
Mars will be very safe and very comfortable one day. But first it's going to be harsh and unwelcoming.
Norway is killing more whales than Japan and Iceland combined.
You can only postpone the inevitable.
It's a reveal which unfortunately surprises no one.
Many animals and plants are trapped in the face of mounting climate change. Their only hope are corridors that free access to cooler areas of the country.
The company has chosen to award the shoes via a raffle system on Instagram
A little ship braving the ocean on its own.
Things are looking bad for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
It's something that should have happened a long time ago.
This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!
Stormy weather has an unusual upside if you happen to live on Australia's eastern coasts: giant waves of sea foam.
No later than October, Climeworks expects to open the first ever commercial carbon dioxide capture plant in the world, near Zurich.
Authorities evacuated people and closed off the area to traffic, while they find a way to stabilize the collapsed area.
There are scores of marine species that have evolved light emitting abilities -- as many as four in five ocean fish are bioluminescent
Dubai loves to take things to the superlative, and the city isn't toying around this time either.
Chinese company EHang's model 184 will be the first human transport drone to ever be tested in the U.S. Keep your fingers crossed, this may solve your commute problems forever.
With a potential ZIka pandemic luring over the Americas, one Long Island town is stepping up to bat.
One of the most famous biology myths was just confirmed. It was rather shocking.
A conversation is a two-way street where cooperation is paramount, and humans aren't the only great apes that put it to good use.
Norway wants to make all cars electric in the next decade.
The transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly is so intense and radical that it's really hard to believe we're talking about the same individual.
The low prices are making a lot of rooftop residents jubilant, but the same can't be said about the largest solar contractors in the states whose stocks have plummeted by more than 50 percent.
A startling report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says food crops like wheat and maize are generating toxins to protect themselves from extreme weather. Ingesting food made from toxic crops can lead to neurological diseases, but the greatest concern is cancer says Alex Ezeh, executive director of the African Population Health and Research Center.
A Canadian think tank found that Canada's status as a 'world superpower' is threatened because the world is shifting away from fossil fuels faster than expected, opting more and more for renewable energy.
Researchers at University of Bern, Switzerland, found Orcinus orca (killer whales) populations have evolved distinct genetic lineages due to unique hunting strategies.
Australia's government wants to stick its head in the sand and simply ignore reality instead of making actual efforts to protect the reef.
Research showed flowers, and plants in general, generate an electric field and bumblebees can sense it with their tiny hairs.
Daniel G. Nocera, the Harvard professor who made headlines five years ago when he unveiled an artificial leaf, recently unveiled his latest work: an engineered bacteria that converts hydrogen and carbon dioxide into alcohols and biomass.
A study of 84 reefs along the Great Barrier Reef revealed one-third of the coral reefs of the central and northern regions have died due to a huge bleaching event. Corals to the north of Cairns, which account for two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef, are also massively affected with 35 percent dead or dying.
A strain of E. coli resistant to last-resort antibiotics has been identified on United States soil for the first time. Health officials say this could be the end of the road for antibiotics, leaving us virtually helpless in fighting future infections.
A hot topic for a reason, global warming and climate change will play a major role in the entrepreneurial future of aspiring business Millennials.
The team has pushed sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 34.5% – establishing a new world record for unfocused sunlight.
Human activity has been wreaking havoc on ocean life. One group however seems to thrive where others struggle to survive: new evidence shows that cephalopods' numbers have significantly increased over the last six decades.
According to a 179-page report released by the U.N., biodegradable plastics degrade far too slow in the oceans, voiding any apparent practical benefit. In the ocean at least, they're just as bad, if not worse in some instances, than traditional plastics.
The Netherlands' accent on rehabilitation and social re-integration of criminals seems to have finally paid off. The country no longer considers its prisons as economically viable and plans to close down another five such institutions.
Using energy from the sun, researchers converted seawater into hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) -- a fuel that can be used in fuel cells, instead of elemental hydrogen.
