It’s pollen season, and for many of us that means coughing, sneezing, a runny nose and itching eyes. Those symptoms can be downright annoying, but is there more pollen in the air this spring compared ...

A 2021 study concluded pollen season in North America is 20 days longer over a 30-year period from 1990 to 2018.

The first animals on Earth took millions of years to evolve, a slowness that surprises paleontologists. How to explain it ...

Something Changed Last Winter and Now Ticks Are Thriving in Places They Weren't Before ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts. They have ...

Artist’s impression of an Ediacaran animal community. Credit: Hugo Salais A new study suggests evolution stayed stuck for millions of years until sexual reproduction helped unleash a burst of ...

The blast happened at a key site for natural gas production. The authorities blamed a technical malfunction while operations ...

An electrical fault or arc flash during electrical work inside Baltimore's Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant likely caused an explosion​ that injured three contractors on Tuesday, according to the ...

Bumblebees are only an inch long, but they help power the global food system. Roughly one-third of the food we grow depends ...

The way that Earth's first animals reproduced held back life's diversity for millions of years, until stress and competition led to the development of sexual reproduction, which in turn accelerated ...

Germany and Japan are expanding defense spending and military cooperation as doubts about U.S. commitments and threats from Russia and China grow.