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World’s biggest iceberg could be on collision course with Antarctic penguin island: “Game of Thrones-esque”

The world’s biggest iceberg — three time the size of New York City — could drift towards a remote island where

A light but rare 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of southern Maine on Monday morning, according to the United

The leaders of more than half of Africa’s nations gathered this week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s sprawling seaside metropolis,

In recent months, bird flu has started raising red flags among scientists and public health officials. Apoorva Mandavilli, a New

When bird flu first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it might affect a few isolated

President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked Brandon Williams, a former Navy officer and one-term congressman, to become the keeper of

At the height of the Los Angeles County wildfires, atmospheric concentrations of lead, a neurotoxin, reached 100 times average levels

Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans live only in the jungles of Indonesia. But humans live pretty

Ena Onishi, a doctoral student at Kyoto University, has spent over 600 hours watching chimpanzees urinating. She has a good

In 1889, the naturalist Allan Octavian Hume wrote that he was puzzled by macabre decorations he observed in many birds’