New research has shed light on when plants first evolved the ability to respond to changing humidity in the air around them, and was probably a feature of a common ancestor of both flowering plants and ferns.

Dams poorly mimic the temperature patterns California streams require to support the state’s native salmon and trout — more than three-quarters of which risk extinction. 

Intense rain fell on Northeast U.S. soils that were already saturated.

A Texas A&M team has developed a concept that could decrease the cost and time it takes to install offshore wind turbines.

Smoke from several large wildfires burning in Northern California can be seen traveling miles into the atmosphere.

In a first, researchers measured and tracked the chemical transformation of pollutants as the eruption was underway.

We are collectively failing to conserve the world’s biodiversity and to mobilize natural solutions to help curb global warming. 

Iceberg A-74, approximately 1.5 times the size of Greater Paris, calved from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf earlier this year.

The summer season is a prime time to observe colorful displays of phytoplankton in the Labrador and Barents seas.

Researchers conducted a nine-year experiment using herbicide-reduction practices in a dairy crop rotation.