Perched on a cliff above Greenland’s Helheim glacier, I tried calling my wife in New York on a satellite phone. Before I could leave a message, an explosion broke the arctic silence.
Avian flu and distemper may be to blame for a rash of seal deaths in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.
A powerful typhoon was expected to make landfall in west Japan on Thursday, raising the risk of more hardship for a region battered by deadly floods in July, and prompting authorities to issue evacuation advisories for more than 60,000 people.
Two of the three koalas at a top Belgian zoo have died in the space of a month, officials said Tuesday while rejecting fears of an "epidemic" among the Australian marsupials.
Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up...
Scientists in Florida are on the cusp of developing promising methods to control toxic algae blooms like the "red tide" that has been killing marine life...
For these ancient reptiles, a stretch of beach on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus has been their home for thousands of years.
One of the world's largest urban forests is under threat from a tiny beetle.
From before dawn, 54-year-old grandmother Annah Muvhali weaves between baobab trees that loom over her rural South African home, collecting fruit that...
Thousands of visitors, many of them dressed in traditional lederhosen or dirndl corseted dresses, descended on Munich Saturday for the start of the annual...
Gwyneth Paltrow, Chrissy Teigen, Adele: The charge to destigmatize postpartum depression has never before had so many high-profile sufferers willing to share...
Advances in eye-exam technology could one day help doctors diagnose people with Alzheimer’s disease long before physical symptoms appear, researchers said...
In the corner of the Seaside Arena exhibition hall that is housing the Beirut Design Fair this week, a skeletal scaffold rises from the floor.
For a number of architects working in Lebanon, the smaller scale of furniture design is offering them the opportunity to experiment with balancing local...
Three prominent U.S. scientists have been pushed to resign over the past 10 days after damning revelations about their methods, a sign of greater vigilance...
A new high-speed rail link between Hong Kong and mainland China launched Sunday, a multibillion-dollar project that critics say gives away part of the city’s...
Far from the packed beaches of Sicily’s busy coastlines, there’s a quieter and wilder world in its high mountains.
Standing outside their yellow hut on a ridge 3,200 meters above sea level, two French gendarmes peer through binoculars at a group of foreign climbers making...
American alligator Muja arrived at Belgrade Zoo on the eve of the Second World War and is believed to be the oldest of his kind in captivity, and still in...
Bin bags at the ready, “long-distance activist” Mohammad Oussama Houij moves methodically along a beach in Tunisia’s Mediterranean town of Nabeul, scooping up...
Researchers say an endangered killer whale that drew international attention as she carried her dead calf on her head for more than two weeks is finally back...