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Western Megadrought Worsens To Driest In At Least 1,200 Years

Our worst-case climate change scenario is playing out live, a new study finds.

Pottery shards reveal ‘naughty pupils’ in ancient Egypt may have been forced to write lines as punishment

The fragments have notes inscribed with the same one or two characters each time

Zoo fights to save species from extinction by cryogenically freezing genetic samples

Technique stores material from animals that are disappearing from Earth

Meet Jonathan the tortoise, the world’s oldest land animal

At 190 years old, the tortoise who lives on St Helena is the oldest known living land animal, and he might even be older, according to his carer, writes Cathy Free

‘Real Wow Moment’ As NASA’s New Space Telescope Captures 1st Starlight, Takes Selfie

The James Webb Space Telescope's first target was a bright star 258 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

One in three Americans have high levels of toxic weed-killing chemical in their bodies, new study finds

Human exposures to chemical is likely to increase even more in near future, scientists say

‘Black Death’ may not have killed half of Europe as previously believed, study finds

Parts of Poland, the Baltic countries, and central Spain may have experienced ‘much lighter touch’ of pandemic

Chalk drum from 5,000 years ago is ‘most important art find’ in a century

Sculpture suggests artistic styles and ideas spanned huge distances even 5,000 years ago

Gray Wolves Regain Endangered Species Act Protections

A federal court ruling Thursday redesignated gray wolves as a threatened species across much of the United States.

Plants are flowering earlier: what does this mean for pollinating insects?

The climate crisis is throwing our plants and pollinators out of sync, explain Chris Wyver and Laura Reeves

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