During extreme cold snaps, people sometimes report hearing trees 'explode.' Trees don’t literally blow apart, but they can crack suddenly, producing a loud bang. The cause is simple physics. When ...

A hoopoe clings to a tree trunk at the nest cavity while carrying food in its bill. This behavior shows parental care, as ...

Candlewood Lake, stretching across multiple towns in western Connecticut, is one of those rare spots that makes you stop ...

The Russian offensive against public transportation in recent weeks escalates the war in the Ukrainian city. Its inhabitants ...

If you've been in the Capital Region awhile, you might recall Lark Street's music festival. It went away for awhile, but was revived last year as Lark Out Loud. After its success, it's returning this ...

From the column: "Something must be done. The peaceful lull right now won't last. Make no mistake, there's a calm before every storm." ...

Flash flooding in the Grand Canyon has killed at least one person, with more than a dozen unaccounted for after the rain. (AP ...

A huge section of Greenland’s Petermann Glacier has snapped off, forming an ice island about the size of Manhattan.

The Nancy Grace Roman telescope, named after NASA's first Chief of Astronomy, will study dark energy and exoplanets and ...

The deadly flash flood in Nepal on Wednesday was likely caused by a huge chunk of a glacier that broke off and temporarily dammed a river, according to preliminary investigations by scientists. That ...

MONSTA X releases their latest EP, The Phase, with the lead track, "MAGIC." The end result is very experimental yet still ...

A glacier collapse triggered this week’s catastrophic flash floods that killed at least 273 and left more than 1,300 missing ...