More than half of the 7.5 million bales of cotton produced annually in the U.S. will be used in clothing manufacturing. The ...

Heat waves are becoming more common, severe and long-lasting. These prolonged periods of hot weather are especially dangerous ...

Strips of bare land scar the lush and green mountainsides towering above Mutsamudu, the capital of the Indian Ocean island of ...

Dr. Jake Johnson, cardiology resident at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, is the author of a ...

Topological quantum systems are physical systems exhibiting properties that depend on the overall connectivity of their ...

More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only ...

Researchers report three distinct tanystropheid taxa from the upper Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation in the Petrified ...

Offshore Hurricane Erin was downgraded to a Category 3 storm early Sunday, as rain lashed Caribbean islands and weather ...

In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New ...

Progress toward a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland ...

Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now, new ...