For nearly 50 years, researchers from the U.S. National Park System hadn’t found any new plants—but that changed with the discovery of a fuzzy sunflower. After a chance sighting in 2024, the “wooly ...

An entirely new plant species, known as a "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park in Texas. This is the first new plant genus and species to have been discovered in a U.S.

A volunteer at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to ...

Scientists reveal a never-before-seen species of leopard-size apex predator that lived in lush forest 30 million years ago.

Water harvesting from foggy air provided up to 5 liters of water a day in a yearlong Chilean desert experiment.

The United States has a proud history of preserving its natural beauty through national parks. Each year, millions of ...

It is more important now to be in love than to be in power. It is more important to bring E. O. Wilson’s biophilia into our ...

Shutterstock Hike Through a Volcanic Landscape Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park opened on August 1, 1916, on the Big Island of ...

agave and other desert plants. Multiple closures have been announced for February 17. Officials from the U.S. Fish and ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — A new tool that predicts the behavior of desert locust populations will help national agencies to manage huge swarms before they devastate food crops in Africa and ...

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Rhinos and rhino iguanas live on different continents, which regrettably means that we’ll never witness a crash of rhinos resulting in a mess of iguanas – two of the funniest collective names for a ...