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.
Have you heard of a river flowing under a river? In an amazing discovery, scientists have found signs of an underground river flowing below Amazon River.
While Hurricane Irene continues to make its way through The Bahamas with heavy winds and rain, residents in the capital Nassau are stocking up on the goods they need to in order to ride out the Category 3 storm. Irene is still threatening the east coast of the United States.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MES) Opportunity, which recently reached the Red Planet's Endeavor crater, sent back interesting snapshots of the planet's crust.
A large algal bloom extending from Montauk, New York to Cape May in New Jersey, has been detected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite imagery as having the potential to threaten the existence of marine life in the region.
Scientists believe that human feces is the cause of the coral-killing disease white pox that has had a devastating effect on the Caribbean Elkhorn coral.
The company calls it an ?unprecedented? step in creating intelligent computers.
Three people have died so far this summer
The world's largest rodent, the South American capybara, has been spotted in a California wastewater treatment plant.
The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Cisco Systems, Primo Water, AMC Networks, News Corp., and Sequenom. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Elbit Imaging, Open Text, SodaStream International, American Superconductor, and Lululemon Athletica.
As NASA?s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landed on its new site, Endeavour crater, on the Martian surface on August 9, scientists assumed it started paving way towards possible future human missions to planet Mars.
The police of Northern Ireland reportedly have six water cannons available; such devices don?t exist in England, Wales or Scotland.
David Cameron is pushing England's police force to use new methods of fighting back against rioting and looting across the country.
To stop the four day-long riots in London, police and politicians are considering a number of crowd control methods never before used in the United Kingdom.
More than two billion people in the world live without access to clean drinking water, and recent droughts in Africa have left 12 million people without water. To aid them, French eco-entrepreneur Georges Mougin plans to harvest icebergs across the world to solve the water shortage.
Photographs by Austrian photographer Andreas Franke were put along the deck of a former U.S. Air Force missile tracking ship, sunk in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, and opened to divers cum visitors in early August.
For the first time in history, scientists and researchers were able to find a direct connection between tsunamis and the creation of icebergs.
Start the slideshow to view images from NASA?s past Mars expeditions suggesting evidence of water on the Martian surface.
Authorities recently requested residents of the city of Grimes, Iowa, to boil water that is intended for consumption after E. coli bacteria was detected in the main water supply.
