NASA has announced that the world as we know it may be facing significant existential threats, lining up with physicist Stephen Hawking's prediction.

For U.S. seismologists, Japan’s “megaquake” warning last week renewed discussion about when and how to warn people on the West Coast if they find elevated risk of a major earthquake.

The quake was felt across Lubbock.

The species’ population collapsed at an alarming rate over the last 10 years, starved by a salty sea swallowing its homeland in the Florida Keys.

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The only known U.S. stand of Key Largo tree cactus was in the low-lying Florida Keys.

It's been an unusually active wildfire season in California as more than 150,000 acres have already burned this summer, compared to 8,000 acres at this same time last year. (Scripps News)

A blistering heat wave has blanketed the Western U.S., shattering temperature records and forcing an extensive heat warning.

Yet another stalking horse for the national animal-rights movement is galloping toward Colorado’s statewide ballot.