They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever ...

South Carolina is home to a lot of alligators. Around 100,000 of them, to be exact. Although it is fewer than in some states, ...

The air in Basra carries a strange weight: part saline mist from the nearby Persian Gulf and part acrid smoke from the ...

A warm blob of water in the North Atlantic is an ominous sign that a system of currents that regulate the planet's climate could be weakening.

I also loved occasionally spotting a Virginia rail, a secretive bird that favors freshwater marshes ... mainly lived to our north on narrow salt marshes while seaside sparrows lived mainly ...

Wetlands — 95 percent of which are freshwater — covered less than 6 percent of the lower 48 states as of 2019. The country ...

Some Floridians never see a firefly in their home state, but Florida actually has more than 50 species of firefly. Here's how ...

On SERC's 2,800 acres, besides its fine range of forests young and old, are salt marshes, a freshwater marsh, cornfields, winter cover crops and newly abandoned fields. "The problem with studying ...

For a Mother’s Day visit in May, you’re likely to encounter pleasant temperatures in the 70s to low 80s, though sudden ...