WATER

Greg Forbes, a severe weather expert with The Weather Channel, said that an estimated 1,350-mile-long swath averaging 5 inches of rain stretched from Louisiana to Upstate New York.

The Broome County Health Department has issued a boil water advisory for all Binghamton water customers as record flooding has left what the mayor calls a dire situation in the area. The department stated that water samples taken on Sept. 8 showed turbidity levels of 14.1 turbidity units.

Authorities are still trying to make sense of what happened to an Arkansas man who was found dead in a bathtub beside sleeping weatherman Brett Cummins.

A new study by the researchers of Aarhus University says that dolphins produce sounds in the same way as humans, they do not whistle, but talk to each other using a similar process of communication as humans.

Scientists announced on Friday that a satellite orbiting Mars has discovered that a huge crater on the red planet was once a water-filled lake.

Several beaches in France were closed due to large quantities of toxic seaweed.

Opportunity, the resilient Mars rover that has been exploring the planet for seven years now, recently arrived at the massive Endeavour crater and discovered rocks that hint at an ancient water source and a once warmer plant.

Scientists say producing hydrogen in the backyard could be possible in future by tweaking an inexpensive semiconductor material, which could be available in commercial store, for generating hydrogen from water by using sunlight.

In a search for inexpensive clean energy, scientists have demonstrated how an inexpensive semiconductor material when tweaked generates hydrogen from water using sunlight. The likely key component in the transition to cleaner energy sources has long been touted to be hydrogen.

Research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy has demonstrated how to tweak an inexpensive semiconductor material to generate hydrogen from water by using sunlight, a finding that could revolutionize the energy sector.

National Guard soldiers on Tuesday began airlifting food and water to about a dozen Vermont towns that have been cut off by the raging waters that remained after Hurricane Irene. At least three deaths have been reported in that state, which was somewhat reshaped by the flood waters from Irene.

Scientists in Brazil believe they have discovered a gigantic underground river flowing thousands of feet below the mighty Amazon River.

Father, stepmother charged in the death of 10-year-old.

An underground river, discovered by Brazilian researchers as flowing 13,000 feet below the Amazon, is not a river as the conventional meaning suggests.

Scientists have found a gigantic underground river flowing thousands of feet below the world's second longest Amazon River.

A 10-year-old Texas boy died of dehydration after his father and stepmother denied him water over a period of five days as a punishment for wetting bed, Texas police said on Friday.

A 10-year-old Texas boy died of dehydration last month after his father and step mother kept water away from him for five days as a punishment for wetting his beds, Texas police said on Friday.

Researchers at the Oregon State University have discovered a freshwater organism that might be the key to fight a fungus that is the principal cause for the worldwide amphibian decline.

British energy giant BP is in the news in the United States for the wrong reasons, again. A female polar bear was accidentally shot by a security guard working for BP’s security contractor Purcell in the oil-rich North Slope of Alaska on Aug.3. The animal, which belongs to a threatened species, died about a fortnight later, inviting the wrath of wildlife activists.

Scientists have discovered a new river, which they claim is as long as the Amazon River and up to hundred times wider.

It's hard to conceptualize but imagine a river flowing 13,000 feet below the Amazon. That is what scientists have discovered: a gigantic underground water body thousands of feet below the world's second longest Amazon River.