Since the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the world's biggest communal garbage dump, was discovered swirling about 1,000 miles north of Hawaii in 1997, scientists and environmentalists have dared to dream if a cleanup might be possible....

"When Peter got out of the car and questioned the nature of the search, the gang of border guards subjected him to a beating, restrained him and pepper sprayed him. At the end of it, local police laid a felony charge of assault against a federal officer a

This project aims to map the location of a graveyards around the globe and then use marble gravestones in those graveyards to measure the weathering rate of marble at that location.

.....(on Coal River Mountain). They've actually started blasting close to the impoundment that holds 9 billion gallons of toxic sludge. They've started 200 feet from the edge of the impoundment to do this blasting for the road....

At the opening of the mammoth 12-day conference, Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen urged 15,000 negotiators from 192 nations to hammer out a "strong and ambitious" deal....

Obama gave his consent to a plan worked out at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore that delays any binding agreements on climate change until next year at the earliest

"..............the U.S. will recognize the outcome of the Honduran elections regardless of whether Manuel Zelaya is reinstated............"

The pigs were fascinated, pointing their snouts toward the mirror, hesitating, vocalizing, edging closer, walking up and nuzzling the surface, looking at their image from different angles, looking behind the mirror....

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.