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It’s the latest clash over a river basin in New South Wales, Australia, in an arid land where social, economic and environmental interests collide over water issues.

Wild birds passed the virus to seals in New England at least twice last summer, a new study suggests.

An unlikely confluence of factors, including climate change and online shopping, appears to be at least partially to blame for the uptick.

What’s causing global warming? How can we fix it? This interactive F.A.Q. will tackle your climate questions big and small.

In the Austrian state of Carinthia, where the law favors light-colored local bees, those honey producers judged “too dark” risk eradication.

For decades, paleontologists have tried to explain what they assumed was a 230-million-year-old scene of mass death.

As the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum undergoes a major redesign, its leaders hope it can do more to engage the public and educate visitors about the realities of climate change.

Zoos, bird rescue groups and other animal facilities are grappling with a “radically different” outbreak of avian influenza.

Canadian researchers are alarmed by the sudden death of an endangered sturgeon. In the early days of September, Nikolaus Gantner and two colleagues hurried out in a jet boat against strong currents to investigate the first spindly, armor-clad cadaver discovered in the swift-moving Nechako River.

After 230 pilot whales were stranded on the western coast of Tasmania, a scramble started almost immediately to save as many as possible.