That probably shouldn't have happened. Plastistones, a new type of sedimentary rock that’s part-plastic and part-rock, has been found on at least five continents and 11 countries.  These rocks form…

The battle in Brazil over the territorial rights of Indigenous peoples has become one of the country’s most polarizing disputes Terrence McCoy January 2, 2024 at 4:00 a.m. EST JARAGUÁ…

Some of my ancestors had money, and some held awful beliefs. I set out to investigate what I once stood to inherit. In 1866, my mother’s great-grandparents Eugene and Mary…

On Jan. 1, 2020, public health officials in the United States woke up to the news of a strange new virus in China. They didn't know what to make of…

It had been clinging on to its self-proclaimed status in the face of Azerbaijan’s aggression. Then, over a week, the entire population fled On September 30th I watched the last…

Doreen Hall is among the thousands of native Hawaiians who decided to leave the state with her family because of rising prices in the area. Each year, 15,000 native Hawaiians…

The Securities and Exchange Commission will decide by next spring on a rule to make public companies disclose how much they generate in greenhouse gases and how climate change could…

In the hottest year on record, the fingerprints of a changing climate in a warming world were all over dozens of extreme weather events. There wouldn’t be weather without heat; heat is energy,…

A new system that will put independent lawyers in charge of the prosecution of sexual assault cases in the U.S. military took effect on Thursday, marking a significant change to…