The Canadian capital of Ottawa was bombarded with 167 millimetres of rain in five hours earlier this summer in what the city called a one-in-200-year event. Close to 5,800 basement-flooding reports...
The Usual Suspects of the anti-science movement, Center for Biological Diversity(1), Environmental Working Group(2) and more, are back in court to try and force California to accept that money is...
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all? For many years, scientists...
In older countries it has become common for young people to live with their parents until, and sometimes well after, they get married. A new study finds that some parts of the animal kingdom don't...
A 1979 seismic event was a different kind of earthquake, and it is has intrigued scientists ever since.A new look at old data has provided some additional answers.On Feb. 24th, 1979, seismographs...
Not many humans have died from the venom of the species of blue-ringed octopuses in the genus Hapalochlaena despite them living in tide pools from Japan to Australia, but all of the deaths had to be...
