Europe's nuclear and renewable energy industries are looking to the New Year and beyond to widen their share of the continent's energy market, where oil ...

The Bush administration has proposed allowing ethanol plants to send more hazardous air pollutants into the air. Is this a practical attempt to increase domestic ...

With the polar ice melting dramatically on one hand, the Arctic researchers found an astounding number of baby walruses abandoned on the other. From these ...

In all his decades at sea, the man said, he'd never encountered anything like it. It's the highly acidic mats of the invasive sea squirt ...

Turning the global habitats into refugees! Natural calamities and political disruptions have been playing this cruel game for decades, giving birth to homelessness, robbing millions ...

The wooden supports that have propped up the city for more than a century are gradually getting exposed, as groundwater levels have been dropping for ...

Here is a new procedure for the efficient transfer of specific DNA sequences into the genome of strawberry. Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) ...

True, scientists are determined that a number of human activities are contributing to global warming by adding excessive amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. ...

Scientists in Britain has for the first time witnessed a rare Mediterranean wasp there. Named Episyron gallicum, this wasp seeks spiders that hunt their prey ...

International standards for the production of chemicals are set. Environmental officials from 150 countries approved a broad agreement on it this Tuesday. U.N. officials say ...

Central American nation, Costa Rica's Pacific coast is no more visited by tourists. But, why? It is the filth of a sewage-rich river that squeezes ...

Do you know that mountain glaciers are typically only tens of meters thick, which are shrinking with an average speed of 60-70cm every year? More ...

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 ...

Armed guards for Olive Ridley turtles! Yes, armed guards. And it is they who have helped them increase in their population safely. So far this ...

True, developments of former farmlands are needed to improve the overall growth of farming quality. But, things will not be as environment friendly as thought. ...