In a culture obsessed with competition, it comes as no surprise that even our trees have been put to the test. In honor of Earth Month, celebrated every April, this series documents a handful of ...

They look like space aliens, they make a loud buzzing sound and the last time you might have seen one Barack Obama was President of the United States. Cicadas, one of the more unusual insect species ...

In the largest study of its kind, researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History have used data from a 120-year-old ...

Legend has it the Eastern hellbenders slithered here straight from hell and But in the age of humans, that evolutionary asset ...

UC Davis professor Hugh Safford found the highest living tree in California on a recent hike through the High Sierra.

Invasive fish species is known for breathing on land, 'walking' to new water. It harms nature in Mississippi; kill it on sight. Here's what to know ...

Old-growth forests are rare – less than 7% of the area of U.S. forests today – and are still often logged. To recover forest ecosystems across the U.S., it will not be enough to protect just ...

Brett Albanese trains his telescopic lens toward a distant tree as he searches for ... Preserve in Watkinsville shows that 87 species of birds have been documented there this year. Albanese is also ...