(AP) -- The Midwest and Northern United States are likely to get a warmer winter, while the Southeast can expect just the opposite: cooler and wetter conditions.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Oct 15, 2009 4 / 5 (5) 0

So how did the chicken cross the road? Or the raccoon, Virginia opossum, woodchuck, red fox, white-tailed deer or great blue heron?

Biology - Ecology

Jan 02, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 2

Research by U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists and partners suggests that the expansion of rosebay rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum) in Southern Appalachian mountain hollows may in ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 31, 2009 4.7 / 5 (3) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Flitting among the cool slopes of the Appalachian Mountains is a tiger swallowtail butterfly species that evolved when two other species of swallowtails hybridized long ago, a rarity in the ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Sep 08, 2011 3.7 / 5 (3) 3 |

(AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the first $182 million in federal stimulus money for 18 projects to expand high-speed Internet networks in rural areas and other underserved communities.

Technology - Telecom

Dec 17, 2009 3.5 / 5 (2) 0

Each year, tornadoes tear across the United States, causing numerous deaths and physical damage to the environment and infrastructure.

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Jun 30, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

Research by US Forest Service scientists forecasts profound changes over the next 50 years in the summer range of the endangered Indiana bat. In an article published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, Forest Service Southe ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 28, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

A low pressure area currently over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin has created conditions that call for a forecast of severe weather in the eastern third of the U.S. today and one area is even labeled ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 26, 2011 2 / 5 (1) 0