Climate change is obviously a factor in the long term, but in the short term there's a lot of natural variability in weather ...

A new study finds that the disturbance-demanding plant species oak, hazel and yew were abundant in Europe's forests before modern humans arrived, strengthening the argument that ancient vegetation was ...

Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...

A new study on titan arum -- commonly known as the corpse flower for its smell like rotting flesh -- uncovers fundamental genetic pathways and biological mechanisms that produce heat and odorous ...

In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...

"The incidence of diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders is less the greener the environment people live in." ...

Biologist Kathy Willis spoke to Live Science about how touching wood makes us calmer, why looking at a picture of a savanna is calming and how walking through a forest changes our gut microbes.

From deeply dark fairytales to shuddering murders, these books and short stories all play a key part in the definition of the ...

A beetle gilded by Selina Grazia in her Norfolk studio (Image: Selina Grazia) Ms Grazia now breeds some of the creatures she gilds at her studio in Dickleburgh, near Diss, including beetles, scorpions ...

The term gothic was first applied to fiction in the mid-18th century, and to this day conjures brooding atmospheres, ...

Boise State English Professor Tom Hillard is a lifelong lover of horror films and scary stories, but he credits his scholarship in Gothic literature with providing “the long, deep history of the ...