Coal has been displaced by cheap and plentiful natural gas and the rapid growth of wind and solar energy — forces that ...

China's Qinling Station in Antarctica has launched a hybrid power system - combining wind, solar, hydrogen and diesel - marking the country's transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy in ...

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned 'Silent Spring,' alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds -- the bald eagle in ...

On January 13, when an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s immense George VI Ice Shelf, scientists in a nearby research vessel did something nobody had ever done.

Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

Clinging to the flanks of Mount Palcaraju, the glacier has, like most in the Peruvian Andes, been melting rapidly in recent ...

TAIYUAN — China's Qinling Station in Antarctica launched a pioneering hybrid power system in March, integrating wind, solar, ...

Researchers studying pharmaceutical pollution tracked salmon that had been exposed to anti-anxiety medication. The fish appeared to lose their inhibitions.

As President Donald Trump announced moves to ease restrictions on the U.S. coal industry Tuesday, he extolled what he views ...

President Donald Trump's quest to conduct a resurgence of coal production and utilization in the U.S. is farfetched and ...