Deciphering mysterious honey bee decline

While the massive and sudden colony collapses that occurred a decade ago have abated, honey bees are still dying at troubling rates.

Solar storms key to life on Earth?

Energy from our young sun – 4 billion years ago - helped create molecules in Earth's atmosphere that allowed it to warm up enough to incubate life, says study.

Man-eating crocodiles captured in Florida

Monster Nile crocodiles might be Florida’s newest invasive species.

New clues about ancient asteroid strike

New evidence from Australia of an enormous asteroid that struck Earth 3.4 billion years ago, triggering earthquakes and tsunamis and causing cliffs to crumble.

Seagulls on an iceberg

A group of ivory gulls - a threatened species of seagull - has made a colony in an unusual place: On an iceberg.

Your top 4 questions about tornadoes

May is the peak month for twisters here in the U.S.

How Earth’s magnetic field is changing

Data from a trio of satellites show rapid local changes in Earth's magnetic field. The cause is likely accelerations in the flow of liquid iron near Earth's core.

Volcanic eruption in far south Atlantic

If it weren't for satellites, the eruption on Bristol island might have gone unnoticed. Instead, here are pics.

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires in clouds

Wildfires are currently burning across a large expanse of Canada. This image from the Aqua satellite shows wildfire smoke trapped in the clouds.

Baby dino was self-reliant mini-me

But, in the case of the fossil bones examined in this new study, the baby dinosaur lived only weeks, apparently dying of starvation.

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