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A 47-year-old from East Peoria was identified Wednesday as the woman whose body was found over the holiday weekend near a nature trail northeast of…

Joe and Lucianne Carmichael say nature's post-Katrina burst of renewal on their land in Orleans Parish offers important lessons to humans trying to recover from Hurricane Katrina.

People who live in areas affected by natural disasters say the federal government is too slow to respond. One reason for that delay is a directive from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem requiring her office to individually review any expense over $100,000.

November 20 Illinois State University Environmental Health and Safety opened the package and discovered documents, according to ISU spokesperson Eric…

Even as climate change increases the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, two-thirds of U.S. adults say if their home is hit they'd rather rebuild than relocate.

Sensors and artificial intelligence help a prosthetic hand act more like a natural one, new research shows.

Some doctors are finding that virtual travel — to Venice, a Hawaiian beach or Africa — can open new worlds to people confined by low mobility, dementia or depression.

We asked visual search scientists, a metal-detecting enthusiast and a detective to share the most effective strategies to find missing objects.

As money pours into companies promising to take greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere, there’s a small but fast-growing sector of startups that want to leverage one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks to clean up humanity's climate pollution: the ocean.

NPR's Dan Charles reports that researchers in Denmark have shown that genetically engineered plants can pass their genes to related weeds. In a report in the journal Nature, researchers showed that a rapeseed plant passed the genes it received through genetic engineering to make the plant herbicide-resistant to a weed. The finding raises questions about the effects that genetically engineered plants could have on the enviroment.