SEVILLE, Fla. — After days of freezing temperatures, David Register and his team at FernTrust Incorporated are finally able to see the full impact. During the freeze, workers sprayed water onto the ...

Microplastics have become a hot topic in environmental science — and a reliable source of alarming headlines. A new study reports a nifty approach to removing them using genetically engineered ...

Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a three-part “What’s on my tree?” series about organisms that are commonly found growing on trees in Louisiana. Not many plants can lose up to 97% of ...

“When Stark says something bold, Fern joins in too…it’s a bit like watching a child, and you can’t help but want to root for her (laughs),” Ichinose began. “Of course, when I’m acting, I put myself in ...

Scrambling to meet higher than average demand, PJM, the nonprofit company that operates the grid serving much of the mid-Atlantic U.S., asked for federal permission to generate more power, even if it ...

Winter Storm Fern exposed deep structural fragility in the U.S. power grid, with outages affecting up to a million customers despite years of warnings from reliability watchdogs. Industry ...

A University of Missouri researcher is pioneering an innovative solution to remove tiny bits of plastic pollution from our water. Mizzou's Susie Dai recently applied a revolutionary strain of algae ...

New studies show how algae grows on ice and snow, creating “dark zones” that exacerbate melting in the consequential region. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey On snow it’s green or red. On ice it’s a brownish ...

Algae blooms are expanding across the world's oceans. The first global study of floating algae was recently released by researchers at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science and the ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Any freelance journalist who ...

Winter Storm Fern turned Lubbock and the South Plains - as well as much of the country - into a winter wonderland, but also brought its share of hazards. The National Weather Service in Lubbock ...