Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winter's disastrously low snowfall could further complicate an already audacious plan to refill the dying Great Salt Lake in time ...

Why are bur oak trees, also known as Kings of the Great Plains, dying? Harvest Public Media's Jackie Ourada takes us to Nebraska. JACKIE OURADA, BYLINE: At the base of the observation tower in eastern ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth's largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet's worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

The Permian period, stretching from around 299 to 252 million years ago, was a time of extraordinary ecological richness, a time when early forests blanketed the Earth and many reptile-like and ...

This is the story of the Great Dying and how tribal leaders are learning from the past. It's been more than 400 years since the first Thanksgiving. And there is a lot we are learning about that time.

Two factors are driving the decline: water use and less precipitation due to climate change. Saving the lake may require 260 billion gallons of water.