An entirely new plant species, known as a "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park in Texas. This is the first new plant genus and species to have been discovered in a U.S.

New research makes it possible to reconstruct ancient ecosystems by analyzing the teeth of over 50,000 carnivorous animal ...

And, perhaps most specifically, could the president force the states in this region to increase their use of the very fossil ...

Pets are like family, be sure they are not eating anyting that could be toxic to them.

You may not even realize it but there are common North Texas plants that are toxic to your pets. And as most know, animals will eat just about anything. Toxicity means that a plant can make your ...

He said that despite the complexity of the fossil, the plant was difficult to classify. “The original identification did not hold. … So it became trying to find, what could this very detailed fossil, ...

A rollover crash in Terry County left a Lubbock woman dead early Thursday morning, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. DPS's preliminary investigation shows that a 2010 Honda Fit ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

A Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. unit is dropping its lawsuit against Sigma AgriScience LLC over legal defense costs for pollution claims tied to Sigma’s Texas fertilizer production plant. Nationwide ...

Lignin is the second most abundant renewable carbon source, making up about 30% of the non-fossil fuel-based carbon on Earth. It is also notoriously difficult to extract from plants. The material ...

An environmentally-friendly preparation of plant material from pine could serve as a substitute for petroleum-based chemicals in polyurethane foams. The innovation could lead to more ...

Simply sign up to the Energy sector myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Engine No. 1, the hedge fund that bested ExxonMobil in a fight over its approach to climate change, is teaming ...