Kenneth A. Tabler, author of "The Day is Far Spent," rose from a poor, sleepy milltown in West Virginia and propelled himself to a PhD and a high profile career with that newly invented thing called "...

One third of the planet will be desert by the year 2100, say climate experts in the most dire warning yet of the effects of global warming Drought threatening the lives of millions will spread acros...

This week only at Target, all profits from Pink DS Lite’s sold will go to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation....

Environmental groups are concerned about a new plan to build a 700-mile long fence along the border with Mexico. "The only living things the walls won't stop are people," said Michael Finkelstein, ex...

Dog owners accustomed to giving their pets sugarless treats may find themselves with a dead dog. That's the warning issued Friday in a report in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical A...

For decades, UK farmers were banned from growing a plant wrongly associated with potheads. But this versatile member of the cannabis family is moving back into the agricultural mainstream....

The Russian air force held a massive exercise that involved strategic bombers flying across the North Pole and approaching Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and Japan, a top general said Friday....

"Further global warming of 1 °C defines a critical threshold. Beyond that we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know." So says Jim Hansen, director of NASA's...

A Brazilian state intends to make cattle ranchers reforest land which they have cleared for grazing. The government of Acre in the Amazon has established a nursery growing seedlings of species such...

Volkswagen of America Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL), located in Palo Alto, California, has taken a 1964 Deluxe Microbus and retrofitted it with a collection of new technologies, including an a...