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As winter tightens its grip on North Dakota, the landscape transforms into a vast, frozen tundra.

The stark beauty of a North Dakota winter is matched only by the resourcefulness of the animals that call this state home.

Heading home to Hollywood two years ago, Iryna Kanishcheva and Charles Alan Rye’s truck churned through floodwaters so deep that abandoned cars around them seemed to be floating. New this year, IGNITE ...

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A dry January across Colorado and the rest of the Rocky Mountain West has created a dichotomy of water haves and have-nots.

A tailwater is a section of river located downstream of a dam. Because dams control the flow of water, they create consistent conditions for the trout that live below. This stability in temperature ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a tree makes in a few thick branches versus many thin ones. Trees have evolved ...

Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include rainfall, according to new research.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...