The world’s peatlands are “dangerously underprotected” despite the colossal amount of climate-heating carbon dioxide already ...

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Large wildfires in the desert were once rare. Now experts worry that invasive plants and a changing fire cycle are putting our saguaros and our homes in danger.

Discover the impact of climate change on the chocolate industry and its implications for the price of chocolate.

The New Mexico Department of Agriculture is moving to end a 27-year-old federal quarantine in Doña Ana County for red imported fire ants. These are not the common variety that show up around yards and ...

When a scientist received a video of a spotted hyena in the southern part of his country, he thought someone was playing a ...

France is "back in the AI race", President Emmanuel Macron declared Monday evening at Paris's artificial intelligence summit. His comments came just days ...

Issues of concern which arose at the meeting included the protection of bathing and shellfish waters and public health along ...

In the United States and across the globe, experts are raising alarms about the possibility of water demand exceeding supply in the near future.

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI).

Banded vegetation, with its intriguing ‘tiger stripe’ patterns of bare and vegetated ground, is a striking feature of arid ...

These vapour pressure analyses and associated maps use data contained in the Bureau of Meteorology climate database ... while those with the lowest are sourced from the arid interior or the high ...