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Gold prices are up this year thanks to geopolitics and a lagging U.S. economy, but they’re looking to fall again pretty soon.

In most countries, the creation of electricity leads to the biggest source of water consumption

New research foretells how the interaction between warming temperatures and air pollution will harm staple crops.

Slower warming in the Pacific Ocean this summer is delaying and weakening a 2014 El Niño event.

Hunting fruit bats and other animals serves as a livelihood for many, but the practice could also be deadly.

An amendment just passed by the House would make the cannabis industry a more attractive partner for financial institutions.

The crash affected shares of Malaysia Airlines as well as those of Cathay Pacific Airways and Air China.

Cold-brews, ice cubes and plastic cups are all making your favorite summer drink more pricey.

Thursday morning's attack, which also injured a security official, reportedly lasted nearly five hours.

The global coffee giant's first Colombia location will have all locally sourced beans.

A three-year drought is drying up the West's reservoirs.

Few knew Nadine Gordimer's work better than Robert Boyers, the editor of a small literary magazine to which she would submit work ahead of the New Yorker and Harpers.

The Paris-based energy watchdog forecast growth in global oil demand and rising supplies from non-OPEC nations in its monthly oil market report.

"The tourists are not being advised to save water," says a resident, as the drought threatens power supplies, too.

Nearly 6,000 farmers united to block a U.S. effort to sell them genetically modified seeds through a foreign aid package, according to Truthout.org.

A new discovery might provide scientists with tools to engineer crops that can deal more effectively with climate change.

"The rainfall pattern has gotten distorted this year, and it will have some impact on agricultural productivity."

“They can’t even take care of the monuments they’ve already developed."

U.S. equity-price volatility could rise, thanks to the June jobs report and other market-moving data in a holiday-shortened trading week.

Still rebounding from a cold winter, lumber prices are expected to turn around by the end of the year.

FIFPro's suggested alterations to FIFA's in-game concussion protocol are quite similar to that of a policy already in place in the NFL.

Thailand's coup has put the country's rice-export industry in jeopardy.

Oil giant BP announced Tuesday that it would sign a $20 billion liquefied natural gas with China this week in London.

Similar accidents at the plant in 2011 and 2012 claimed one life each while another lethal disaster killed five people at the plant in 2013.

Global oil prices are rising and could soar further as insurgents in Iraq threaten southern oil fields and export facilities, analysts say.

Alleged slavery in the supply chain of the world's largest shrimp farmer sheds new light on America's most popular seafood.

The former hedge-fund manager and prominent climate activist Tom Steyer will have finally divested of all his fossil fuel holdings by the end of this month, the Washington Post reported Monday.

Ivan Reitman’s 1984 summer comedy is enduringly popular, but its all-original storyline wouldn’t pass go with today’s franchise-obsessed Hollywood producers.