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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research looks at carbon dioxide removal—where carbon is absorbed from the atmosphere and stored—and finds that large-scale reliance on land-based methods, such as planting forests or bioenergy ...

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 ...

New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the ...