Green plants produce a specific gas when under attack to both directly ward off herbivores and pathogens and indirectly lure in herbivore predators.
January 29, 2024
Even by Alaska standards, there's a lot of snow this winter
January 30, 2024
The U.N.’s weather agency has confirmed a reading of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Sicily two years ago as the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe
January 30, 2024
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is pledging to fast-track more than half a dozen projects to remove or bypass dams that have blocked salmon
January 30, 2024
A new study shows how artificial light at night scrambles insects’ normal flight patterns, pulling them off course into orbit around the light.
January 30, 2024
Many scientists have long assumed that moths and other flying insects were simply drawn to bright lights
January 30, 2024
Farmers have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure and snarling Parisian traffic with barricades of tractors and hay bales
January 30, 2024
Researchers say the number of western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped by 30% last year, likely due to how wet it was
January 30, 2024
Residents of an east Arkansas town have been without running water for the past two weeks after the state was hit by below-freezing temperatures
January 30, 2024
The spotlight returns to Gobbler’s Knob in western Pennsylvania this week, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil will announce his verdict — six more weeks of winter or an early spring
January 31, 2024
‘Jaws,’ published in 1974, terrified the public of sharks, but it also brought shark research into the scientific mainstream.
January 31, 2024
A new study shows the return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland
January 31, 2024
A large study ties contaminated drinking water at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune to an expanded range of cancers
January 31, 2024
The House is aiming to pass a tax cut package expanding the child tax credit for millions of families and restoring three key tax breaks for businesses
January 31, 2024
Landlocked Laos doesn’t have the famous beaches of its Southeast Asian neighbors, so it instead attracts visitors with the pristine beauty of its mountains and rivers and historical sites
February 01, 2024
Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia has declared a drought emergency for the area of some 6 million people including the city of Barcelona
February 01, 2024
The Senate has approved President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution office just as the agency is set to finalize rules over climate-changing emissions from power plants and cars and trucks
February 01, 2024
The National Hurricane Center will add inland predictions to its forecast of the location and ferocity of tropical storms
February 01, 2024
Warm weather has forced the federal officials to suspend the annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades
February 01, 2024
The storm that pummeled California this week was fueled by an atmospheric river, a plume of moisture that extended over the Pacific to near Hawaii
February 01, 2024
Georgia Power Co. says vibrations found in a cooling system of its second new nuclear reactor will delay when the unit begins generating power
February 02, 2024
Rising seas and frequent storms are taking their toll on California's iconic public piers and raising questions about the future of the landmarks
February 02, 2024
Much of Alaska has plunged into a deep freeze, with temperatures colder than minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit in recent days in some places
February 02, 2024
The United Nations' climate chief says to keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for poor nations
February 02, 2024
Scrutiny over Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up online, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions that are let off with each flight
February 02, 2024
California firefighter accused of sparking blazes in the state's wine country
GM to lay off about 1,700 workers at Kansas plant
Ireland drops plans for hate speech law, minister says
US not responsible for violence in Mexico's Sinaloa state, ambassador says
Russian strike on apartment block in Kharkiv injures 12
Tens of thousands of bees found living in a Maine family’s farmhouse
Sullivan expresses worry over escalating Israel-Lebanon tension, calls Hezbollah strike as justice served
No. 3 Ohio State looks ahead to Big Ten schedule after rolling through nonconference games
Garrett Greene throws two late TD passes and West Virginia beats Kansas 32-28
Dubois beats up Joshua to retain IBF heavyweight title with 5th-round knockout