Torrential rains triggered a series of landslides on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing at least 14 residents and burying many more, a local official said...

For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans — once...

This is not to use a metaphor but just a play of words to say that time ran back in Pakistan – the announcement of putting the clocks back by an hour. The...

An early blast of winter walloped some western states with deep snow and slowly pushed into Nebraska and Kansas Thursday, bringing blizzard conditions to the eastern...

We purchased petroleum from middle east countries with higher prices. India is not the country blessed with petroleum by the nature. We pay huge foreign currency for...

Denmark’s prime minister says he does not think a legally binding deal on climate change will be agreed upon at a December summit in Copenhagen.

New research published in the online journal PLoS ONE demonstrates for the first time that a non-human adult animal species regularly engages in oral sex behavior....

Britons should turn vegetarian to help beat global warming, according to one of the world’s top experts on climate change. Lord Stern said methane emissions from...

Palms flourished in the Arctic about 50 million years ago as some profiting from carbon tax...

1.02 billion people have gone hungry this year, according to a report released this year. This comes at a time when several regions in East Africa are threatened by...

Scientists have unraveled the mechanism by which the fungal disease chytridiomycosis kills its victims.

No one who saw it will ever forget Severn Suzuki’s six-minute address to the United Nations Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992. The 12-year-old Canadian schoolgirl...

The heavily taxed French like to grouse about all the levies they pay, but there’s a new tax that’s turned that constant grumble into a roar. Called la taxe...

French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, comes with a new measure to tax citizen for every ton of carbon dioxide they produce. The measure is to penalize not just...

There’s nothing I love more than having a little downtime and hitting the ‘open highway’. You know what I mean, living life. It’s a chance to...

Austria was hit by a record October snowfall late on Tuesday when strong winds and heavy snow caused power blackouts, train delays and traffic accidents. Austria...

Environmentalists in Kenya and Africa, want to push for compensation from developed countries that are the major polluters. Through carbon trading, Kenya could claim a...

A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of...

I was going through my emails and came along a photo of a dying kid who has gone for days without food and is short of some energy to even cry, the only reachable...

Continued construction of plaza on cultivable land is becoming a growing concern among the business community in the country; the latter recently demanded that such...