A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.

UC Davis Professor Hugh Safford was hiking for pleasure in California's High Sierra when he stumbled upon a new elevation ...

Fossils unearthed in Villa El Chocón, Argentina, have led paleontologists to identify a previously unknown sauropod species.

In the heart of Oregon’s high desert, just south of Bend, lies a vast volcanic landscape that whispers tales of fire and ...

China’s video gaming and social media giant Tencent Holdings has joined the latest round of investors in humanoid robotics start-up Agibot, in a fresh example of a China Big Tech firm betting on ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include ...

For a truly supersized wilderness experience, few places on Earth can compete with the United States of America. The US is a ...

Forestry bosses have issued a warning over people turning up to mountain biking trails in the south of Scotland with chainsaws to clear fallen trees. Forestry and Land Scotland say clearing ...

A landowner from South Wales has been fined almost £80,000 under a confiscation order by Swansea Crown Court for illegally felling more than 8ha of native woodland. The trees, which were within ...

One of the most significant challenges in coffee farming is the coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix), a fungal disease that has devastated plantations in Latin America over the past decade.