They clung to trees. They crawled out of windows and floated on mattresses. And they survived to tell the harrowing story of ...

That includes 40 adults and 28 children. Ten girls from Camp Mystic are still missing, along with one counselor.

Deadly flooding along the Guadalupe River over July 4 weekend left destruction across Texas Hill Country, forcing residents ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...

A recent global study, published in Nature, now confirms that the atmosphere’s growing thirst for water is sharply increasing drought severity—even in places where rainfall hasn’t changed much.

The question of how life persisted has challenged scientists for years. Some have suggested that organisms could have survived in places like hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean, under the ice, or ...

Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow regions of water vapor in the atmosphere, like a river in the sky. These systems gather ...

According to Weijia Kuang, a geophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, this correlation could help us to know the evolution of life and how it is relevant to the interior process of the ...

WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra. This adaptability is a skill that long predates the modern age ...

Early humans survived in a range of extreme environments before global migration, study says Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to ...