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March 13, 2019 at 3:00 am

UN: Environment is deadly, worsening mess, but not hopeless VIEW

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says. Climate change, a...

March 7, 2019 at 1:20 pm

Chimps varied ‘culture’ matters for conservation, study says

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some chimpanzee groups are stone-throwers. Some use rocks to crack open tree nuts to eat. Others use sticks to fish for algae....

February 24, 2019 at 9:37 pm

American families of missing Uighurs speak out at DC event VIEW

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after the Chinese government began to detain members of Muslim minority groups in western China, a growing number of...

January 24, 2019 at 1:50 pm

Rare pangolins languish in China wildlife rescue system

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Chinese police found them in the trunk of a smuggler's car, 33 of the trafficked pangolins — endangered scaly mammals from...

January 16, 2019 at 11:55 am

Robot recreates the walk of a 290-million-year-old creature

WASHINGTON (AP) — How did the earliest land animals move? Scientists have used a nearly 300-million-year old fossil skeleton and preserved ancient footprints to create...

January 9, 2019 at 11:38 am

Medieval woman’s hidden art career revealed by blue teeth

WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1,000 years ago, a woman in Germany died and was buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery. No record...

December 13, 2018 at 8:06 am

Scientists scour WWI shipwreck to solve military mystery

WASHINGTON (AP) — A hundred years ago, a mysterious explosion hit the only major U.S. warship to sink during World War I. Now the Navy...

Nation & World

In this undated photo provided by researchers in December 2018, a male tungara frog in Panama uses his vocal sac to call out in Gamboa, Panama. A study released on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, examines why these amphibians adapt their mating calls in urban areas _ an unexpected example of how animals change communication strategies when cities encroach on forests. (Adam Dunn via AP) NY932 NY932

December 10, 2018 at 8:01 am

Panama's city frogs sing more alluring love songs than their country cousins

Panama's tungara frogs take advantage of the relative absence of eavesdropping predators in cities to belt out longer love songs, researchers found. And those fancy...

December 2, 2018 at 6:33 am

Could anyone have stopped gene-edited babies experiment? WATCH

HONG KONG (AP) — Early last year, a little-known Chinese researcher turned up at an elite meeting in Berkeley, California, where scientists and ethicists were...

Nation & World

November 27, 2018 at 1:55 pm

Gene-editing scientist under scrutiny by Chinese officials

WASHINGTON (AP) — The rebuke from China was fast and furious. A Chinese scientist who claimed he helped make the world's first gene-edited babies is...