Botanists are scouring the US-Mexico border to document a forgotten ecosystem split by a...
JACUMÉ, México (AP) — Near the towering border wall flanked by a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle, botanist Sula Vanderplank heard a quail in the...
New endangered listing for rare lizard could slow oil and gas drilling in New...
Federal wildlife officials declared a rare lizard in southeastern New Mexico and West Texas an endangered species Friday, citing future energy development, sand mining...
DeSantis, amid criticism, signs Florida bill making climate change a lesser state priority
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Climate change will be a lesser priority in Florida and largely disappear from state statutes under legislation signed Wednesday by...
Verdict in for wildlife mystery in Nevada where DNA tests show suspected wolves were...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The verdict is in. The latest wildlife mystery in Nevada has been solved.Scientists who set out on a trail through...
Sun shoots out biggest solar flare in nearly a decade, but Earth should be...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The sun produced its biggest flare in nearly a decade Tuesday, just days after severe solar storms pummeled Earth...
Sweltering heat across Asia was 45 times more likely because of climate change, study...
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year's destructive swelter was made 45...
This giant gas planet is as fluffy and puffy as cotton candy
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have identified a planet that’s bigger than Jupiter yet surprisingly as fluffy and light as cotton candy.The exoplanet...
Astronomers find the biggest known batch of planet ingredients swirling around young star
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star.The...
Hot history: Tree rings show that last northern summer was the warmest since year...
The broiling summer of 2023 was the hottest in the Northern Hemisphere in more than 2,000 years, a new study found.When the temperatures spiked...
Canadian wildfire smoke chokes Upper Midwest for second straight year
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest and Montana for the second year in a...