More than two centuries ago famine struck in Africa hard following record low levels of water in the Nile River. Surprisingly, faraway volcanic eruptions have ...

Days after an adult male gorilla died at the National Zoo while veterinary specialists tried to implant a cardiac device, another western lowland gorilla died ...

Global warming may benefit salmon! After a series of finding about the destructive results the earth may witness, especially when it comes to the mass ...

The Panama Canal built in 1914, will find itself widened for the first time when it celebrates its centennial anniversary in 2014. The Panamanian congress ...

Climate change is strengthening the El Nino weather patterns. And this change could endanger food supplies for more than 20 million people in Africa, a ...

A chunk of Earth's crust, about 3.8 billion year-old, has been found in Greenland. It is the oldest known such chunk ever found in the ...

How does sea ice affects the water movement in the Arctic Ocean? To study this, more than $1 million federal grant money is given to ...

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 ...

The report was released just before Christmas. It mentioned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's investigative arm disclosed that it failed to monitor thousands of ...