It’s pollen season, and for many of us that means coughing, sneezing, a runny nose and itching eyes. Those symptoms can be downright annoying, but is there more pollen in the air this spring compared ...

A 2021 study concluded pollen season in North America is 20 days longer over a 30-year period from 1990 to 2018.

The first animals on Earth took millions of years to evolve, a slowness that surprises paleontologists. How to explain it ...

Back in 1986, when reactor no. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded on April 26, 1986, it sent radioactive fallout ...

Something Changed Last Winter and Now Ticks Are Thriving in Places They Weren't Before ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts. They have ...

The blast happened at a key site for natural gas production. The authorities blamed a technical malfunction while operations ...

An electrical fault or arc flash during electrical work inside Baltimore's Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant likely caused an explosion​ that injured three contractors on Tuesday, according to the ...

A decade after they vanished from the ocean, the discovery of this lost colony of sunflower sea stars offers new hope for ...

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which in turn accelerated ...

Arizona is starting to trade its dry, blazing days for a wetter summer as towering clouds build across the horizon and scattered rain showers begin to sprinkle the desert. With monsoon season settling ...