A series of tragic deaths in Canada, the U.S. and Europe is showing how tricky avalanches still are to predict. Will that ...

Predictions for a planet affected by climate change can sound like they're ripped from a doomsday novel: stronger hurricanes, intense heat waves, rising sea levels and the disappearance of ice in the ...

Vanilla plants could have a future that’s not so sweet. Wild relatives of the vanilla plant — which could be essential if the original cash crop disappears — may someday live in different places than ...