New research has discovered 16 new desert grasshopper species, revealing their Ice Age-driven isolation and diversification.

What's the only native insect of Antarctica have to do to survive? A research team has uncovered the special ability of the Antarctic midge to prosper in an extreme environment.

Alice Morrison, 61, averaged 23km per day for seven weeks as she travelled from the Jordanian border to the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah.

Biodiversity loss has accelerated at an alarming rate in recent decades, driven largely by human activities such as clearing ...

Some efforts to preserve or rewild natural habitats are shifting harmful land use to other parts of the world—and this could ...

New “slow flower” farms grow beautiful blooms—without health-harming chemicals used by overseas operations that dominate the ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

A major step in the process of building a new airport south of Las Vegas to supplement Harry Reid International Airport operations is expected to begin sometime this year.

Researchers say they now can tell the endangered species apart from other bats by analyzing saliva left behind when sipping nectar.

February has seen increase in use of poisonous bait as farmers return to agricultural activity and seek to protect crops and ...