Fireflies are nature’s flash mob—appearing briefly to dazzle and glow before dying. That makes the charismatic creatures, ...

The team ran experiments offering people who returned bottles the option of getting a typical ten-cent payout—or the small ...

The study was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

Officials, farmers, and others who depend on the Colorado River received a grim prediction last week that Lake Powell, the second largest reservoir in the basin, will receive less than half of the ...

The action taken by the Trump administration “...is not only harmful, it’s illegal.” That was the reaction of Erik Olson, of the Natural Resources Defense Council to the EPA’s plan to roll back ...

At the end of last week, firefighters were making progress to contain the largest wildfires burning in Southern California as winds were calmer, but the forecast this week is for more Santa Ana winds ...

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Every time there’s an online outage or streaming service starts to buffer, there’s an impulse to blame a hacker...or “the cloud.” After all, web traffic is handled by satellites, right? Wrong.

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The vessel, which had the tallest mast of any yacht in the world, sank rapidly. Fifteen people survived. Italian officials believe that the sudden storm caused a waterspout to form in the exact spot ...