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Director Constance Zimmer's 'Boy in the Walls' premieres Aug. 5
Lifetime announced the premiere date for "Boy in the Walls" as Aug. 5. Constance Zimmer directed the film.
Watch: Anthony Mackie fights killer clown Sweet Tooth in 'Twisted Metal' clip, photos
Peacock released a clip and photos from the upcoming "Twisted Metal" series, premiering July 27.
Watch: 'Troll Apartment' in the middle of Los Angeles bridge listed for $250,000
A listing for a one-bedroom, one-bathroom house in Los Angeles is going viral both for its $250,000 prize tag and its unusual location -- the middle of a bridge.
Study shows South Africa, India and Australia shared similar volcanic activity 3.5 billion years ago
Cratons are pieces of ancient continents that formed several billions of years ago. Their study provides a window as to how processes within and on the surface of Earth operated...
Untapping barley's grain yield potential by mitigating floral degeneration
Barley possesses an indeterminate "spike"-type inflorescence that forms basic floral structures, called spikelets, in a distichous pattern along its central axis (termed rachis). Each rachis node in the barley spike...
Most nations get low marks on 'net-zero' climate plans
Nearly all of 35 countries accounting for more than four-fifths of global greenhouse gas emissions got low marks for their net zero plans in a peer-reviewed assessment published Thursday.
Seaweed farming may help tackle global food insecurity
To help solve hunger and malnutrition while also slowing climate change, some farmers could shift from land to sea, suggests a recent study from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science...
Climate Prediction Center says El Nino weather phenomenon has developed
The National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center says an El Nino weather pattern has officially developed.
Aviation turbulence strengthened as the world warmed -- study
The skies aircraft fly through are bumpier today than four decades ago, scientists have found, after producing a new analysis showing that turbulence has increased as the climate changed.
Why earthquakes happen more frequently in Britain than Ireland
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies have discovered that variations in the thickness of tectonic plates relate directly to the distribution of earthquakes...
Greenhouse gas emissions at 'an all-time high' - and it is causing an unprecedented rate of global warming, say scientists
Human-caused global warming has continued to increase at an "unprecedented rate" since the last major assessment of the climate system published two years ago, say 50 leading scientists.
Researcher working to add value to wool by localizing sheep farm-to-fiber production
At a time when wool production in the Mountain State is declining, West Virginia University Extension and Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design researchers are exploring new ways...
Volcanic tsunami hazards: What can the Santorini seafloor tell us?
The Minoan eruption of Santorini in the Aegean Sea was one of the largest explosive volcanic eruptions in the Holocene. In the Late Bronze Age, during a disastrous natural catastrophe...
Blue carbon: Could a solution to the climate challenge be buried in the depths of fjords?
Cyclone Gabrielle has highlighted forestry slash as a problematic aspect of relying on plantation forests to draw down carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere.
US cities shrouded in toxic haze as reinforcements reach Canada wildfires
Smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to shroud US cities in a noxious haze Thursday, forcing flight delays and cancelations to outdoor activities as environmental groups called for urgent action to...
Watch: Deer crashes through New Jersey home, swims in backyard pool
A deer crashed through a window into a New Jersey woman's home and took a dip in her backyard pool before being removed by animal control.
More than 60 billion leaf litter invertebrates died in the Black Summer fires. Here's what that did to ecosystems
The Black Summer megafires engulfing south-eastern Australia in 2019–2020 were so intense they burned habitats rarely exposed to fire, such as southern warm temperate rainforest.
Satellite images show that Spain is in danger of drying out one of the main wetlands in Europe
Wetlands are among the most biodiverse yet endangered ecosystems on Earth. In the last century alone, around 70% of them have disappeared, with overexploitation of aquifers being the main threat...
Without fully implementing net-zero pledges, the world will miss climate goals
In a new study, led by Imperial College London and published in Science, researchers ranked 90% of global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions pledges as providing low confidence in their full...
ESG investing has made little impact on the green energy transition so far. Why is that?
As the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ramps up its dire warnings about climate change and its subsequent impact on biodiversity, environment, food and health-care systems, the same...
Analysis: Current emissions targets could keep planet below 2°C temperature rise, but a turbocharged effort is needed
In the landmark Paris Agreement, adopted at the 2015 United Nations climate change conference (COP21), 196 countries decided that the world must limit global temperature increases to well below 2°C...
How universities could help whole communities tackle climate change
As centers of learning, universities have the potential to help whole communities learn about and address climate change. Education can lead us to change our attitudes and behavior. It can...
World Ocean Day: Blinken 'encouraged' by global progress on conservation
On the occasion of World Ocean Day, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said he's encouraged by global progress made in conservation.
Octopuses 'rewire' their brains to adapt to different ocean temperatures
Octopuses edit their RNA to adapt to fluctuating temperatures, from the warm waters of summer to chilly ocean temperatures in winter.
Scientists extract a kilometer of rock from Earth's mantle in record-breaking mission
A record-breaking drilling attempt, which dug more than a kilometer into an underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean, has given scientists a treasure trove of rocks to study for clues...
Trailblazing research explores life in deepest parts of Indian Ocean
Scientists have used a human-occupied submersible to explore one of the Indian Ocean's deepest and little-known spots, documenting its unique habitat and diverse marine life.
Q&A: Scientist explains effects of Canadian wildfires on local air quality
As wildfires rage in Canada, officials warned that the country was on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through...
Ponderosa forests struggle in the face of Southwest megadrought
Ponderosa pine trees are one of the most ubiquitous conifer species in western North America, extending from southern British Columbia all the way down to northern Mexico. In the American...