As governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has championed aerial gunning of wolves and bears.

A Great Dane who was saved from a burning house collapsed the following day, presumably due to the shock and excitement of finding his artist owner still alive.

AN 11-stone dog escaped unscathed after accidentally swallowing a 62cm stick. Hector, a one-year-old Great Dane, swallowed the stick while playing in the garden at his home in Wheathampstead.

"I think it's one of the things that you grapple with here all the time," she said. "Whether you're imposing your own system on an alien culture ... and you always end up questioning yourself."

Burd tried mixing his most effective strain with the others. He found Pseudomonas and Sphingomonas bacteria together produced a 32 per cent weight loss in his plastic strips. His theory is strain one helps strain two reproduce.

A newly created microbe produces cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels, report scientists from The University of Texas at Austin who say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation's transportation fuel if producti

The steady deterioration of the very climate of our very planet is becoming a war of the first order, and by any measure, the U.S. is losing. Indeed, if we're fighting at all--and by most accounts, we're not--we're fighting on the wrong side.

MAKE room in your wardrobe for bamboo. Fibres formed from pulped bamboo can be woven into strong, silky fabrics that wick away sweat. Now they have been made to absorb harmful UV rays and kill bacteria as well.

A cougar ran loose in Chicago on Monday for the first time since the city's founding in the 19th Century. But by day's end, the animal lay dead in a back alley on the North Side, shot by police who said they feared it was turning to attack.

The latest push towards this goal in the U.K has seen ITM Power Plc and Roush Technologies Ltd sign a co-operative agreement that not only aims to put hydrogen-fueled commercial vehicles on the market within months...