Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about ...

mass migration, disinformation and general malaise. Austria could get its first far-right chancellor since World War II. France is on its fifth prime minister in three years, Germany is headed for ...

Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the cataclysmic mass extinction event caused by ... it’s estimated that the Nazis stole one-fifth of all artwork in Europe, the majority from Jewish ...

Of the five major extinctions in the planet’s history (leaving out the current mass extinction for now ... the jury’s still out on that fifth one. So when a new study suggests that climate ...

Detroit Lake would become the fifth reservoir in the Upper Willamette ... endangered salmon and steelhead teetering on the brink of extinction. But drawdowns have brought significant problems ...

Even Israel’s admirers and well-wishers, which includes Narendra Modi’s India, must wonder as the new year breaks what exactly Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hopes to achieve by ...

The extreme drawdown at Detroit Lake aims to help save salmon but could also impact fishing and drinking water in the Santiam ...

Elephants and giraffes, which are on the verge of extinction, can be found in Gambia ... They traded extensively with the major West African states. From the 5th to the 8th century, the Serahule ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?