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The agreement, which ended the COP28 climate conference, is not legally binding, but it's the first to explicitly call for moving away from fossil fuels
By Joel N. Shurkin, Inside Science -- Let's pretend it is 56 B.C. and you have been fortunate enough to be invited to a party at the home of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, a great social coup. Piso, after all, was Julius Caesar's father-in-law and a consul of Rome.What's for dinner?
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A new report finds the global average temperature so far this year is 1.46 degrees Celsius warmer than the pre-industrial average
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Today, only female mosquitoes feed on the blood of animals, while males are satisfied with plant juices
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The U.S. Coast Guard is still searching for the specific source of the leak, which occurred last week