So many misconceptions abound that the suicidal truly needing an intervention in order to survive may very well not receive the help they need to recover. Individuals making the effort to personally empathize with this sad plight

"There has hardly been any rain or snow in winter since 2006, and there was very little rain this year even during monsoon.

Ahead of the Copenhagen summit next month, a UN report has called for the inclusion of human and gender dimensions into the debate on climate change.

Ceremonies are taking place around the world to mark the 20th anniversary of a landmark agreement protecting children.

For those of you who think that renewable energy is nothing more than wind power and solar energy here is an interesting piece of information. A group of people have come together to produce green energy from animal fats.

Melting of the Arctic sea ice due to global warming is diluting surface waters and this is endangering some species of shellfish which need minerals in the water to form their shells and skeletons, scientists have found.

With the upcoming disaster film "2012" and the current hype about Mayan calendars and doomsday predictions, it seems like a good time to put such notions in context.

Chrome will run on specially designed computers and will be entirely web based. There are no desktop applications and the OS will run inside a web browser that resembles Google's current web browser, also called Chrome.

Most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily ... Along with this loss and degradation, we are losing some 135 plant, animal and insect species every day--or some 50,000 species a year--as the forests fall.

Some truly strange creatures can be found on the ocean seafloor, and boneworms are among the most bizarre -- they have no eyes or mouth and feast on the bones of dead whale carcasses.