Despite making a comeback after a century of whaling, grey whales are declining again on the BC coast because of climate and human pressures. The...

Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate...

Our society is in the middle of a painful, promising and complicated shift. We know we need to stop burning fossil fuels. We need to transition to...

Throughout the long and arduous course of human history, both progress and its horizontal transfer were an extremely slow, sporadic and tedious...

It’s been a painful four years watching the experts, backed by power, dismantle all the foundations of the good life, and yet not be held...

  Extreme bushfires have more than doubled in frequency and intensity over the past two decades, according to a global study from the University...

Conservative southern Oregon, often an afterthought for many other Oregonians, may be the most politically dynamic large area in Oregon. Few other...

Working class voters in Rust Belt cities like Pittsburgh used to favor Democrats overwhelmingly, but years of economic hardship and the rise of social...

DENGUE fever used to be a tropical disease. Not anymore. Alarm is spreading in Europe, where in France – on the eve of the Olympics – 2,800 cases...

During the day, clouds reflect sunlight back into space, cooling the Earth’s surface. At night, on the other hand, they act like a blanket,...