A plague wracked Athens from 426 to 430 B.C. and eventually led to the city's fall. The ancient medical mystery behind it has eventually been ...

How is Earth's freshwater - the most precious natural resource - distributed? To get a clear picture of this, NASA scientists are making observations from ...

Winter is a season for fashion. Be it leather or fur, it's definitely time to flaunt in your designer jacket. But, to maintain the fabric ...

The most detailed, high-resolution map of Antarctica has been produced for the first time. More than a thousand images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite ...

Doesn't it sound innovative and inexpensive? Tote bag from plastic grocery bags. Erin has posted a wonderful report on the recycled bag in treehugger, making ...

The excess speed of a ship sliced many times another rare north Atlantic right whale. Scientist found the body of this two-year-old male whale on ...

Is it something closer to a dream to change a desert nation's climate? Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov ordered a forest planted to fulfill a similar ...

A Century has passed since the nerve-wrecking catastrophe has occurred. After the 1906 earthquake, Stanford geophysicists have revisited San Francisco's "Big One", where evidences made ...

Yet another new species discovered. Paleontologists uncovered 11 complete fossils of a slug-like creature. It has prickly armor and a muscular foot predicted to have ...

With an effort to fix the ozone hole over Antarctica, more than two dozen countries replaced chloroflourocarbons in refrigerators, air conditioners and hair spray in ...

Every body believes recent years of unusual warmth are linked to human activities and global warming. And now it is showing its cruel face in ...

It is happening indiscriminately across the planet. Abundance and variety is falling continuously. A major new report says that virtually all indicators of the likely ...