Our recent weather has certainly been up and down. One day we have snow and ice that changes to rain as temperatures warm up, and the next day temperatures fall back to freezing again. At this rate it ...

A SCOTTISH adventurer seeking to become the first person to cross Saudi Arabia from north to south on foot has completed the first stage of ...

Zara Hossain argues that a complete overhaul of society's mentality towards the environment and sustainability is needed, especially in light of recent natural disasters.

Scientists studied plant DNA to understand past extinctions. They found that warming climates increase competition, ...

Ecosystem engineers are plants or animals that create, modify or maintain habitats. As Joshua Larsen, an associate professor at the University of Birmingham, explains, beavers are a perfect example of ...

In 2018, researchers estimated there were fewer than 100 individuals of the critically endangered Sombrero ground lizard on ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Oxnard's 90-acre North Shore at Mandalay Bay project has been stalled by toxic waste cleanup and other issues for almost 30 years.

The microarchitecture of fossil pterosaur bones could hold the key to lighter, stronger materials for the next generation of ...

Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

A species of grasshopper native to Appalachia, believed to be extinct, was spotted last year in Augusta County. It’s among several rare and never before seen plants and animals that were discovered in ...

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...