Stretching more than 200,000 square kilometers (77,000 square miles) across southern Australia, the vast, flat plains of the ...

Ice sheets are fundamental components of the Earth system. Antarctica and Greenland, the two ice sheets currently on Earth, ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released LandScan Mosaic, a next-generation global population distribution dataset ...

The fight against climate change has a new, spiral-tusked ally: the narwhal. In a study published in Science Advances, ...

A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight: at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, ...

Denny Glover was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing with buddies on the Sacramento River, but he wasn't expecting a fully grown humpback whale.

For decades, an idea has grown in paleontology that, long before scientists began digging up and reconstructing dinosaur ...

When you were in school, what stressed you out the most? For many students, classroom assessments—graded tests, quizzes, ...

For nearly two decades, biologist Lauren Deaner has worked with Florida scrub-jays, contributing to population recovery ...

Red blood cells are known to increase 2,3-BPG during exposure to high altitude, helping compensate for reduced oxygen ...

A study initiated by Dr. Dan Theodorescu, a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, revealed that the ...

Many of the moons orbiting Saturn, Uranus and Neptune likely conceal oceans of liquid water beneath miles of icy shell.