Experts have tentatively attributed the deaths to cetacean morbillivirus, which is related to the virus that causes measles in humans.
“Our planet as a whole is becoming a warmer place,” said Kathryn Sullivan, acting administrator of NOAA.
Since it went on display as a sprig, the corpse flower had attracted over 120 000 visitors. [VIDEO]
The space agency also announced plans for a mission to capture a small asteroid, redirect it into a stable orbit and send humans to study it.
A 70-million-year-old dinosaur skeleton from the Gobi Desert that was smuggled to the US and auctioned has been returned to Mongolia.
This is the first direct evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in the Americas, according to a study.
Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment.
To crack the code of the human brain, neurobiologist Cori Bargmann figures it's best to keep an open mind.
A new study attempts to project how many of the most damaging hurricanes could result from warming air temperatures as well.
A warming climate is expected to open new sea routes through what is now impenetrable ice, a study reported.
Earth's increasingly hot, wet climate has cut the amount of work people can do in the worst heat by about 10 percent, US scientists reported.
The energy big cities burn produces heat that can influence temperatures thousands of kilometres away, a new study has found.
Last year was among the top 10 warmest in the modern global record, two US climate-watching agencies reported.
Americans are less accepting of drinking recycled wastewater in a practice known as toilet-to-tap, a survey has found.
Computer models have accurately forecast conditions on Mars and are valid predictors of climate change on Earth, US and French astronomers said.
Last month tied for the warmest September in the global modern record, scientists reported.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans say global warming influences US weather, according to a survey.
Arctic sea ice, a key indicator of climate change, melted to its lowest level on record this year before beginning its autumnal freeze, say researchers.
Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is likely to shrink to a record small size sometime next week, and then keep on melting, according to an expert.
Great white sharks swimming off the California coast should be protected under the US Endangered Species Act, say environmentalists.
In a cosmic case of “now-you-see-it, now-you-don't,” a brilliant disk of dust around a Sun-like star has suddenly vanished.
The discovery of the “hot spot” could help coastal cities plan for rising seas and predict the submergence of saltwater marshes.
On the wall of a tiny structure buried under forest debris in Guatemala, archaeologists have discovered a scribe's notes about the Maya lunar calendar.
Researchers have been monitoring the big ice sheets of Greenland for decades as one indication of the impact of human-spurred climate change.
To figure out what is likely to happen to Earth's climate this century, scientists are looking back 3 million years.