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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The UK climate activist group Just Stop Oil announced that it will end disruptive acts of protest, which have included throwing soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” smashing the glass protecting the Magna Carta and spraying orange powder paint on Stonehenge. “Three years after bursting on the scene in

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism to snare other creatures and force them to unwittingly shelter its young, according to new research. Paleontologists studied 16 specimens of the tiny wasp preserved in amber dating back to

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after being sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin accused the previous administration of stashing $20 billion worth of “gold bars” in a Citibank account and vowed to claw the money back to the Treasury. The new environment chief has frequently touted a theory,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant countermeasures, new research suggests. Substances such as silica, gypsum, perchlorates and nanophase iron oxides contained in Martian dust could have life-threatening effects on members of a potential Mars mission,

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Imagine the planet tens of millions of years from now. Homo sapiens as a species is likely long gone, wiped out by a mass extinction it helped unleash. What traces will humanity leave embedded in ancient strata of rock for future paleontologists to detect, study and puzzle over? It’s

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Sharks have a reputation for being silent killers — the top ocean predators are stealthy hunters, but they also lack sound-producing organs found in many other fish. Now, a groundbreaking new study has revealed one shark species may be more vocal than previously thought, making noises comparable to the

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA has outlined how it will respond to President Donald Trump’s order that federal agencies eliminate “waste, bloat, and insularity” — but it’s not yet clear just how sweeping the changes to the nation’s space agency may be. The agency is planning to implement a reorganization plan as it

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The number of people stung by red fire ants in Australia has increased significantly in past weeks, with 23 people requiring hospital treatment since the beginning of March, according to national broadcaster ABC. Originally from South America, the red imported fire ant, or Solenopsis invicta, is one of the

By Lauren Kent, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Deanne Criswell has spent years sounding the alarm about busier disaster seasons. Just days before the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stepped down at the end of the Biden administration, Criswell was directing the federal response to the deadly and destructive wildfires in Los

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a high school in Biloela, Australia, according to a new study. While researchers knew the 1.5-meter-long (about 5-foot-long) slab was around 200 million years old and home to

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research. During the final stages in the life of a gargantuan star, its death throes culminate in a powerful thermonuclear blast — a supernova

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The galaxy is 13.4 billion light-years away, meaning it formed in the early days of the universe. Astronomers believe the big bang created the universe 13.8 billion years ago. The

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for millions of dollars in damages to a giant pipeline company in relation to protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly a decade ago. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners sued Greenpeace for $300 million in 2019, accusing the environmental group of

CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as their planned short stay in space stretched into a more than nine-month, politically fraught mission — are finally home. Williams and Wilmore, alongside NASA’s Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov of Russia’s Roscosmos