Macaroni penguin in huge colony with snowy mountain in the background, blue sky, South Sandwich Islands, Antarctica© MZPHOTO.CZ/Shutterstock.com In one of the most remote and harsh environments on ...

Scientists made the Doomsday Clock a long time ago to show how close humans are to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight. This is the closest it has ever been ...

The risk of nuclear war and the threat of climate change have caused the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to move the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe to two minutes to midnight. This ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists members, from left, Jon B. Wolfsthal, Asha M. George and Steve Fetter reveal the Doomsday ...

How can we measure time more than 500 million years into the past? A study recently published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Lausanne presents a new geological "rock ...

Ancient rocks in Sweden are acting like a “rock clock,” helping scientists finally pin down when major Cambrian climate changes happened.

Antarctic penguins are breeding earlier than ever recorded, with gentoo penguins showing the most dramatic shifts as warming accelerates along the Antarctic Peninsula. Earlier breeding can create ...

Earth is closer than it's ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy group ...

(AP) - Earth is closer than it’s ever been to destruction as Russia, China, the U.S. and other countries become “increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic,” a science-oriented advocacy ...