A bed of 115-million-year-old bones lies in the path of pipes for a planned desalination plant meant to supply freshwater to drought-stricken Melbourne.
European bears didn't need to retreat south during the last Ice Age, DNA evidence has found—hunting, and not climate, may be to blame for their now-fragmented habitats.
Australia's move isolates the U.S. as the only industrialized country to shun the Kyoto framework, even as officials begin meeting to discuss the global-warming agreement's eventual successor.
The tropics are heading toward the Poles faster than predicted, scientists say. The expansion may mean drier weather for the U.S. Southwest and the Mediterranean.
For the second year in a row, forecasters predicted too many named Atlantic storms. Now some experts fear the inaccuracies will shake the public's faith in all hurricane warnings.
Satellites and ocean buoys help scientists understand changing weather, bringing some countries—like Brazil and China—together. Specialists were gearing up for major climate talks in Indonesia.
A technique normally used to examine the human retina may help researchers better understand how frogs in Costa Rica are fighting a deadly fungal infection.
Nearly 300 cases of the rare chikungunya fever in Italy could be due to warmer temperatures spurring mosquito populations -- and mosquito-borne disease.
Colors in sunset paintings from around the time of major volcanic eruptions may help scientists understand climate change -- assuming past centuries' artists weren't too interpretive.
