Late in the Middle Ages, Italian stargazers gave a name to the annual contagion that rolled around each year like clockwork.

Scientists from the Yale School of the Environment discovered that forests in the Everglades bounce back quickly after fires, ...

Focussing on the area of the tropics around the equator, the scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M) in Germany used ...

Atmospheric rivers – those long, narrow bands of water vapor in the sky that bring heavy rain and storms to the U.S. West Coast and many other regions – are shifting toward higher latitudes, and ...

A new study warned that 15% to 30% of the Philippines’ land-dwelling vertebrates could disappear, putting amphibians and mammals in particular danger.

Scientists have been trying for decades to crack the code of how different animal patterns emerge from a mass of developing ...

Simple patterns can be found almost everywhere in the environment, from drain covers to leaves and road markings, say Julie Mountain and Felicity Robinson Patterns are essential to building ...