If you hate the rain, you have something in common with wolf spiders.

Scientists have known about a particular organelle in plant cells for over a century. 

Nearly 75 percent of the U.S. could experience damaging earthquake shaking, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey-led team of 50+ scientists and engineers.

The laws of thermodynamics dictate that a warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, but new research has found that atmospheric moisture has not increased as expected over arid and semi-arid regions of the world as the climate has warmed.

To help the monarch butterfly, Texas writer Charlie Scudder decided to home-rear its caterpillars.

A University of Rhode Island professor of Ocean Engineering and Oceanography, along with a multidisciplinary research team from multiple institutions, successfully demonstrated new technologies that can obtain preserved tissue and high-resolution 3D images within minutes of encountering some of the most fragile animals in the deep ocean.

Southern Africa contains the vast majority of the world’s remaining populations of both black and white rhinoceroses (80% and 92%, respectively).

Bumblebees buzz from flower to flower, stopping for a moment under a clear blue Minnesota sky.

In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers found that more extreme and frequent droughts would dramatically increase the amount of forest burned by wildfire in the southern Appalachian region of the Southeast through the end of the century.

Climate change is reshaping forests differently across the United States, according to a new analysis of U.S. Forest Service data.