A total of 3,916 people were said to be missing throughout Nepal, the government said.

The government of the Canadian province of British Columbia is in talks to extend its decade-long wolf cull program by another five years. Since 2015, the province has killed wolves in areas with declining populations of endangered woodland caribou as part…

Authorities are bringing in more resources as they try to track down one hiker who is still unaccounted for and may have been hiking in the Grand Canyon’s lower rim when dangerous flood floods swept through the popular area. It comes as officials confirm…

Thunderstorms triggered flash floods that killed at least two people at one of the United States’ most-visited national parks.

By Roberto Samora SAO PAULO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - An agreement aimed at phasing out the use of native forest wood for energy generation in Brazil's corn ethanol plants has been put on hold, a ​reforestation industry association told Reuters, creating unc...

Is anyone missing a three-metre carpet python? The Zurich cantonal police are looking for the owner of the snake, which was discovered and captured in a wood in Winterthur.

Following a gas leak, Enbridge is temporarily halting all work on its Line 5 construction project in Wisconsin. The number of people incarcerated in Wisconsin has reached an all-time high. And Eau Claire leaders seek answers on outside law enforcement agencies…

University of Idaho researchers have discovered a new species of spider in north-central Idaho and named it after the Vandals. The new species, called “Hexura vandal,” was discovered in the Nez Per…

A University of Idaho research team has discovered a previously unknown spider species in the mountains of north-central Idaho, a find they believe is unique to

Snake embryos begin life curled into a distinctive right-handed spiral, and scientists may finally know why. Their bodies grow faster than their guts, creating a tether that forces the lengthening embryo to buckle and twist inside the egg. Researchers reached…

“As the first locally led deep-sea expedition in Trinidad and Tobago’s history, these discoveries are proof that Caribbean scientists can uncover our own deep-sea backyard.”

Pristimantis milpe is a common and widespread species that was mistaken for another species for more than a century.

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Each month, the Microbiology Society publishes the <a href="https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem" target="_blank"><i>International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology</i></a>, which details newly discovered species of…

Scientists believed there were only two species of hornerid bryozoans in Aotearoa New Zealand, but new research shows several more have been secretly

A newly described species of ghost shark, Rhinochimaera costaricana, has been identified from deep waters off Costa Rica using both physical characteristics and genetic evidence.

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2001: A Space Odyssey is packed with references to the IBM corporation with specific reference to HAL 9000. Here we explore the extensive evidence for the theme. By Rob Ager.

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