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Two heads are better than one. Many scientific breakthroughs come when scientists from different fields or different sectors team up to tackle a single…

When the U.S. withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord in June, it marked a pause in federal action on clean energy. But individual states have already been…

"The Perseids are caused by the debris left behind by comet Swift-Tuttle, which is one of the bigger comets in the solar system. And every year in middle…

WCAI News Director Steve Junker hosts a roundup of some of the top local and regional news of the week, including: a statewide ban on vaping products hits…

This week on Arts and Ideas: a new Moth Radio Hour, the search for the mother of all flowers and what happens when novelists go to Hollywood.

This week on Arts and Ideas: High school students’ opinions about what’s happening in the public square, archival music and sounds from the Smithsonian, and the science behind the stone heads on Easter Island.

This week on Arts and Ideas: The many ways the lobster industry is reinventing itself, major themes in the Billie Holiday songbook, and people who choose to physically stand in the way of war as "human shields."

It's not that records are being broken monthly but they are being "shattered by very substantial margins over the past 13 months," a climate scientist said.

In the 2015 Paris Agreement, most countries agreed to try hard to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Delay and inaction mean that goal is becoming harder to achieve by the day.

The move is one of his more controversial campaign promises, and industry groups say they will sue. But it won't have much immediate impact on driving down climate-warming emissions.