A new plant species named "Cardamine insueta" appeared in the region of Urnerboden in the Swiss alps, after the land has changed from forest to grassland over the last 150 years.

Unlike the vegetated tundra of its neighboring islands, Bunge Land is a barren sandy plain that also serves as a land bridge.

Another stretch of intense heat has reinvigorated the state’s brutal 2020 fire season.

A Texas A&M co-authored study found that development could threaten habitats of the lizard commonly found in West Texas and New Mexico.

With intense wildfires in the western United States and frequent, intense hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the nation is again affected by extreme weather-related events resulting from climate change.

Increasing fishing too quickly can cause coral reef ecosystems to collapse, new CU Boulder-led research finds.

During typical summers in the southeastern U.S., streams of visitors travel to Great Smoky Mountains National Park to witness one of nature’s most spectacular displays of light: thousands of male fireflies, all flashing together in near-perfect harmony. 

Archaeologists estimate that the I-Kiribati have been living on their islands in the central Pacific Ocean for 2,000 years.

Although less than one per cent of all water in the world is freshwater, it is what we drink and use for agriculture.

Most of the sediment that flows into the Atlantic Ocean from the mouth of the river comes from thousands of miles upstream.