The Millennium Seed Bank at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew holds more than 2.5 billion wild plant seeds from around 40,000 species. The seeds are stored in sealed glass jars and foil packets, and are ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

Diwali, India 's most significant annual festival, holds particular importance for Hindus but is celebrated across faiths by over a billion people in the nation and its diaspora. At such a critical ...

Wildfires across the globe are worsening due to the climate crisis, according to a newly released report compiled by ...

Proving to be no passing fad after all, plant-based food businesses in Southern California are surging – with investors, ...

The Kern County carbon capture project marks California’s first commercial CO2 storage site as legal challenges test its future.

The father of a 7-month-old boy missing in Southern California pleaded guilty to second-degree murder of his son after a ...

A movement to drop natural gas and buy all electric appliances in homes and businesses is underway but can that eventually ...

All eyes are on California this fall as voters decide whether to approve Proposition 50, which would temporarily set aside the state’s nonpartisan citizen redistricting commission and adopt new ...

At a recent gathering of community groups, a city council member, students, and climate activists, the talk was all about ...

October in California is typically known as a dangerous moment in peak fire season, the month when the state has seen some of ...

The forecast released Oct. 16 predicts where above- or below-normal temperatures and above- or below-normal precipitation are ...