The Environment

Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature

The distinctive sound horses produce when they whinny is created by combining low- and high-pitched sounds together, like grunting and whistling at the same time

School is out as heavy, wet snow blankets parts of the Northeast. Though it will be a pain to shovel, it makes for perfect snowballs and the most structurally sound snowmen

Blizzards can bring a ton of snow, but here’s what else they feature

Mercury pollution from coal plants has been tied to serious neurological problems, especially in children and babies

Researchers have rediscovered a 77-year-old recording of a haunting song that now has been determined to have come from a humpback whale

This gravity-defying machine appears to work much like a ground-based wind turbine—but in the air

Record warmth followed by a huge snowfall led to the recent avalanche that killed at least eight skiers

Scientists have captured footage of a sleeper shark farther south than ever before, suggesting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean is not shark-free

New research on African striped mice found that the caregiving instinct may be rooted in a specific gene

Medical and environmental groups are challenging the EPA’s decision to break with the long-standing scientific evidence that climate change endangers human health

Below the surface, Greenland’s ice appears to be churning up, a process one scientist described as akin to a “boiling pot of pasta”