NASA called the cluster a "pocketful of...

The Pacific Rim National Park Reserve recently installed three new wildlife tunnels under a highway on the west coast of Vancouver Island to allow amphibians to avoid being hit by...

US officials girded Saturday for the possibility of mass fatalities from raging wildfires up and down the West Coast, as evacuees recounted the pain of leaving everything behind in the face of fast-moving flames.

Miniature satellites open up a world of technological possibility. But experts say they degrade the astronomical landscapeThe natural serenity of the night sky is a touchstone for all of us. Everyone alive today looks at the same stars no matter where they are located on the planet. But the connection is more profound because, next to our brief lives, the stars are immortal. Shakespeare saw the...

Complaints that only available tests are 600 miles away despite Matt Hancock’s pledgeCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageExasperated parents in England have complained of a test-and-trace system still in “shambles”, with some struggling to book appointments for their children who have developed symptoms since returning to school.One Brighton primary school teacher,...

Pharma giant AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Saturday said they had resumed a Covid-19 vaccine trial after getting the all-clear from British regulators, following a pause caused by a UK volunteer falling...

Drugmakers racing to develop a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine pledged in July to ensure their larger clinical trials would include diverse sets of volunteers. "Diversity in clinical trials is a priority for Pfizer and is critical given that COVID-19 disproportionately impacts communities of color in the U.S.," Pfizer's Chief Business Officer John Young said in a U.S. congressional hearing...

Trials of vaccine being developed with AstraZeneca had been paused after participant fell illCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe closely watched trial of an experimental Covid-19 vaccine, halted after a participant fell ill, is to resume in the UK.The University of Oxford, which has partnered with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca to pilot the study, said that the UK...

India racks up another 97,570 infections; police disperse demonstartors in Victoria; Brazil deaths climb past 130,000. Follow all the developmentsCovid-19 vaccine gamble: where bets have been placed and why‘World-leadingly bad’: the week Covid resurged in the UKPassengers furious at airlines over voucher policyBob Woodward rejects criticism he sat on Trump ‘deadly’ virus remarks 12.39pm...

The fires raging in three states show that the climate debate "is over", California's governor says.

Federation chairman says people may take advantage of situation ahead of restrictionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePeople have been urged not to have a “party weekend” before the government’s “rule of six” restrictions come into force on Monday.The call from the Police Federation came as a former chief scientific adviser urged the public to act in tune...

The idea is not that those with peanut allergies will be able to eat the nuts freely, but that the severity of their reactions could be...

The naturalist warns that a million species are at risk but says it is not too late to save...

The climate crisis is a factor, but so are efforts to fight fires - which have had the opposite effectWe call them wildfires, but that might not be the right word any more.In recent days, at least five whole towns have been destroyed by fire in Oregon. So has much of Malden, Washington, and swathes of Big Creek and Berry Creek, both in California. Continue...

The world's biggest carbon trading market faces a major overhaul under European Union climate change plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions faster this decade, a draft seen by Reuters shows. Under the EU emissions trading system (ETS) factories and power plants have to buy pollution permits to cover the greenhouse gases they emit, while airlines must do so for flights within Europe. The draft...

At this very moment a vast world exists that's free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away.

Sri Lankan military divers fixed a fuel leak from the engine of a fire-damaged oil tanker off the island's east coast, the navy said Saturday, in a salvage operation after the huge week-long blaze.

A trio of humpback whales—usually bound for Antarctica this time of year—took a wrong turn, heading up a crocodile-infested north Australian river with scientists hoping Saturday they will all return to the sea safely.

China's Mars probe Tianwen-1, which blasted into space in July, is now more than 15 million kilometers (9 million miles) from Earth en route to the red planet, the National Space Administration said Saturday.

The health of democracy in the United States has reached its lowest point since an academic watchdog group of political scientists began tracking its performance in 2017.

There was an encouraging sign this week for a critically endangered Canadian fish teetering on the brink of extinction in the wild. Six adult Atlantic whitefish were observed in an isolated Nova Scotia lake for the first time in six...

A new dock has been built in Hubbards, N.S., that uses boards made out of recycled plastic. The owner of the company that makes them says he hopes it will inspire Nova Scotians to use this kind of lumber in marine...

China's Mars probe Tianwen-1, which blasted into space in July, is now more than 15 million kilometers (9 million miles) from Earth en route to the red planet, the National Space Administration said Saturday. The administration, however, has yet to release information about a mysterious reusable experimental spacecraft that returned to Earth a week ago after a two-day flight. The spacecraft...

The deadly fires devastating California are unlike any seen before, experts say. Research shows that climate change has amplified the risk of many conditions that help them ignite and spread, suggesting there will be more extreme wildfires in the western U.S. and Western...