Australia has always had heat waves. But this week's heat wave in southeastern Australia is something else. Temperatures in ...

Far from simply a source of unstructured online content, disaster management in the digital age can be supported by careful analysis of online social-media data, suggests a paper published in Natural ...

With insect farming projected to produce millions of tons of insects in the coming years, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers offer evidence that the insect farming byproduct called ...

Argentina's government on Thursday declared an emergency in Patagonia, where wildfires have ripped through vast tracts of ...

Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded ...

Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ever walked on land—were a key food sustaining predators in the Late ...

The Sierra Nevada snowpack, the source of nearly one-third of California's water supply, is looking a little like a New Year's resolution: full of hope and promise at the beginning of January, but now ...

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

Should growing glacial lakes be used for energy production and water supply—or remain protected as ecologically valuable ...

Wetlands make up only about 6% of the land area but contain about 30% of the terrestrial organic carbon pool. Therefore, CO2 emissions from wetlands are central to the global climate balance. In ...

Researchers have just published a study demonstrating that the flying gurnard (Dactylopterus volitans) emits sounds while ...

Researchers from Drexel University who discovered a versatile type of two-dimensional conductive nanomaterial called MXene ...