There are over 150,000 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List. Of those species, over 42,000 ...

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Travel like a local: Residents share their favorite places in our top city guides: New Orleans, Rome, Tokyo and Mexico City.

In a study published last month in the journal Ethology, researchers found that electric rays can scare away both tiger and white sharks by zapping them with powerful electric discharges. While ...

The United States has over 18,000 islands and you’re able to get to many of them without ever getting on a plane.

Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On July 4, the broken remnants of a ...

The temperature in Phoenix soared to 118 degrees — breaking the daily record for July 9 by 2 degrees and exceeding the normal by 11 degrees. The National Weather Service has issued extreme ...

The death toll from historic flooding in Texas' Hill Country rose to 104 Monday as Camp Mystic girls summer camp confirmed 27 ...

The storm flooded roads, downed trees and stranded residents across the central part of the state. It is headed northeast ...

The Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum could lose the iconic Discovery space shuttle to Houston if a pair of Texas senators ...

Georgia authorities said their goal was to serve warrants for crimes against children. They swept people up and got ...

It is now labeling it the Gulf of America. According to Google, people using Maps in the U.S. will see "Gulf of America," and people in Mexico will see "Gulf of Mexico." ...