Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

An avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada on Monday buried a snowmobiler in snow and killed him, authorities said. Rescuers ...

In the mid-1700s, Denmark tried to capture its natural world in ink and copper. Artists and scholars spent more than a century crafting Flora Danica, a massive catalog of plants meant to guide ...

Massimila is one of an estimated 80 to 90 people that are being asked to vacate their shelter units as a result of the city's 120-day engagement policy. Portland man hit by driver in December dies ...

Today's capybaras are a little tricky to spot; they're on the right-hand side of the mountain, about halfway up.

Fears of climate change are decreasing in the United States, China and many Western countries relative to other concerns, according to a new survey. War, economic hardship and disease were more ...

Wildfire risk, rising homeowner insurance costs, drought and shifting water supplies are no longer distant threats for Western Nevada County — they are daily realities shaping how people live, work ...

An unexpected region of the Amazon is at the forefront of rapid growth in climate extremes, a new report reveals. The central north Amazon, a region with extensive areas of high forest cover, natural ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

The chytrid fungus disease is responsible for global amphibian population declines, such as the endangered limosa harlequin frog shown above. Brian Gratwicke, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and ...