Questions remain about how much oil and gas poured into the sea and how far the oil slick spread toward the Australian and Indonesian coasts. Beyond that, why did the government repeatedly downplay the leak and even award the rig operator new ...

Environmental groups and activists for the developing world accused rich nations of tiptoeing away from vows to seal a binding, far-reaching treaty on climate change in Copenhagen.

Using newly gathered seismic data from 2005, researchers reconstructed the event to show the rift tore open along its entire 35-mile length in just days. Dabbahu, a volcano at the northern end of the rift, erupted first, then magma pushed up through...

A California couple and three accomplices were charged in the case. They are accused of beating and torturing the two loan-modification agents, whom they believe defrauded them ...

Well, it looks like we were right. The Chamber of Commerce hoax was perpetrated by the Yes Men, in tandem with a group of activists known as the Avaaz Action Factory. Yes Man Andy Bichlbaum showed up at the 11am press conference.....

WASHINGTON -- Generating electricity by burning coal is responsible for about half of an estimated $120 billion in yearly costs from early deaths and health damages to thousands of Americans.......

Obama responded defensively with political boilerplate. His administration was "working as hard as we can as quickly as we can," he said, citing unspecified "complications" in coordinating efforts with state and local governments.....

The foreclosure crisis may not diminish anytime soon. "The fastest growing area is in the 180 days late-plus category, the most seriously delinquent borrowers," Sharga said. "It's going to be a lingering problem."

Mercury is bad for you and the states will use it anyway in their vaccines! After 1976's mass vaccination against a different swine-flu strain, about 500 people developed a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), and some die.

"One way we look back at a culture is how they dispose of their dead," said Schmidt. "We see people here that society was not taking care of before they died -- and society is having difficulty taking care of them after they are dead."