Researchers have named two newly discovered freshwater snail species from Brazil after characters from The Lord of the Rings.

If you cut down a tree, you can read an environmental record. Now climate change is complicating the narrative.

He is part of a wave of populist, ring-wing candidates who have pushed aside mainstream ... and the Middle East has only ...

The odds of finding it were probably less than finding a needle in a haystack and the fact that we were able to go over and ...

Gunmen opened fire in a bar in central Mexico killing 10 people and injuring 13, local authorities said Sunday. The attack took place Saturday in the historic city center ...

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Saturday, sending a giant ash tower nine kilometers (more than five miles) ...

The region, part of the Pacific 'Ring of Fire,' has a history of seismic activity, including a devastating 8.8 magnitude quake in 2010. (With inputs from agencies.) ...

Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say ...

We cannot afford to normalise these record-breaking temperatures annually, as this trajectory threatens our long-term ...

Computer science researchers have developed a new crowdsourcing system that dramatically slashes wildfire mapping time from hours to seconds using a network of low-cost mobile phones mounted on ...