In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

Greenhouse gas emissions have steadily declined since 2005, despite a growing population. But the state expects that to start climbing again.

To wood or not to wood, that's been the question! Ever since oil-based plastics burst onto the manufacturing scene, cost, ...

New research shows that early land plants started influencing Earth’s climate hundreds of millions of years earlier than ...

A wave of peer-reviewed research now shows that resins derived from plants and wood can match or exceed the mechanical ...

Workers at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant were evacuated Feb. 25 after a threat was reported.

Roughly 100 million people rely on these plants for their water. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Rhode Island faces an energy crisis due to natural gas shortages and rising utility bills, with wind power increasing fossil fuel use.

New minuscule fossils of Purgatorius, the earliest-known relative of all primates—including humans—have been unearthed in a ...

A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems. Its tiny jaw ...

Learn how Permian-era fossils from Brazil led researchers to a tetrapod with a twisted jaw from a lineage once thought ...

The nation’s largest public utility says it now would prefer to keep operating two coal-fired power plants it had planned to shutter.