Flooding can cause serious damage to homes and leave families with hefty repair bills. According to the Environment Agency, 6.3 million properties in England are in areas at risk of flooding. Of those ...

They possess a temperate nature and only attack if they feel threatened or cornered. The mosquito is the single deadliest, most dangerous animal in the world and also one of the smallest. Mosquitoes ...

A wildfire risk map issued by the Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State University breaks the state up into areas with low, moderate and high risk of wildfire. In northwest Oregon ...

For people with a mosquito bite allergy, also known as "skeeter syndrome," symptoms are more severe than the itchy red bump of a mosquito bite. They can include a rash, large areas of excessive ...

In a recent study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers assessed the competence of mosquitoes as vectors for the Oropouche virus (OROV) in the United States.

There’s nothing quite like making a little ‘X’ on a painfully sensitive mosquito bite to provide an inkling of relief. The very best way to relieve the pain of an insect bite, however ...

Except when those come in the form of insect bite marks or, even worse, a mosquito-borne disease. Having experienced the former on almost every holiday to date and the latter (alongside an ...

For “Flight Risk,” his first outing as a director in nearly a decade, the Oscar winner isn’t quite taking center stage. By Marc Tracy The movie trailer hit heavy rotation on N.F.L. playoff ...

Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K. His focus is reporting on nature and science. He covers climate change, biodiversity, extreme weather, zoonotic diseases and more. Tom ...

IRELAND will be smashed by fierce winds gusting over 150kph, battering rain and heavy snowfall as Storm Eowyn makes landfall later this week. Forecasters have warned that the wicked weather will ...

Why do people in some parts of the country seem to be more at risk of certain diseases than others? There are obvious factors, such as smoking rates, income or diet. But now research is pointing ...