Nikon’s Small World in Motion competition offers a unique window into life under a microscope. A tardigrade, colloquially known as water bears, move around a volvox algae colony. Tardigrades are water ...

Urgent flood warnings swept across Washington, Mississippi, and Louisiana on January 11, 2026, as swollen rivers pushed past ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now differentiate between human-derived and hydrological ...

A federal investigation details how a barge sank on the Lower Mississippi River near New Roads in 2024, causing millions in ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

With interstate access, rail connectivity and the Port of Greater Baton Rouge, the Capital Region is becoming one of the ...

Bella Falk is a travel writer, photographer, and documentary and podcast producer from London. She writes the multi-award-winning travel blog Passport & Pixels and produces the Pangolin Wildlife ...

A dark, jagged vein of open water slices through the endless white of a frozen Mississippi River in this 1948 aerial shot. As sub-zero temperatures threatened to stop the flow of post-war commerce, ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Three South Mississippi locations were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2025, according to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). The ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

From giant stick bugs to rarely seen sea creatures, these animal videos fascinated us—and led to new scientific discoveries. An orca calf and adult swim in the Norwegian fjords. Orcas have been among ...

The Mississippi River is home to one of North America’s most formidable reptilian apex predators: the American alligator. With its vast waters and abundant marshes, the river provides ideal conditions ...