Genomic analysis seeks to learn whether bird populations are inbred, causing a decline in fertility and fitness.

As I write on the eve of December 2024, it’s a good time to put our recent wet spell in context. Our two most significant ...

Mayors along the Mississippi River have watched for years as intensifying rain storms and flooding wreak havoc on their ...

Although the concentration of rare earth elements in coal ash is lower than in geological deposits, its large-scale ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Human footprints stir the imagination. They invite you to follow, to guess what someone was doing and where they were going. Fossilized footprints preserved in rock do the same – ...

Residents acknowledge that groundwater levels are dropping, but they say a state regulatory plan is not the right solution.

The owner of an oil field in Los Angeles County is suing the state of California over a law that will require it to stop ...

Newly discovered 1.5-million-year-old footprints reveal how two extinct human species crossed paths within hours of each ...

Most of the guys I went to high school with in Louisiana in the mid-1970s didn't attend college. Most of those who did had ...

Sustainable rates of groundwater withdrawal in Oregon’s Harney Basin were surpassed 20 years prior to the time declining ...