Bees in the US are dying of some unknown cause - millions of them are leaving their hives and do not come back. What is happening? The problem has got a name - colony collapse disorder - but no apparent cause.

While the annual Sound Shake exercise on Wednesday produced a simulated magnitude 6.7 earthquake on the Seattle fault, a real though unfelt seismic event is taking place beneath western Washington.

A potentially fierce and damaging storm is expected to hit the UK on Monday, forecasters today warned. Winds gusting up to 70mph are forecast from early on Monday as a band of squally rain crosses the UK

Something is happening deep beneath the Earth's crust. There are currently three very active earthquake swarms occurring along the Pacific Rim. SEE POST BELOW

March 5 (Bloomberg) -- Sydney residents and tourists are cursing La Nina as the harbor city says goodbye to the summer that wasn't.

It turns out Al Gore was wrong. The scientists aren't all in agreement on global warming; thus there is no "consensus."

A YouTube video featuring an extract from the interview is available here:

He dismisses eco ideas briskly, one by one. "Carbon offsetting? I wouldn't dream of it. It's just a joke. To pay money to plant trees, to think you're offsetting the carbon? You're probably making matters worse.

Global warming is a natural process, not likely the result of human activities, argued more than 100 internationally prominent environmental scientists in papers presented at the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change, which concluded in New York

Orange County is putting reverse-osmosis treated sewer water back into the county's aquifer, and residents are going "Ick!" Their response speaks to ignorance of the fact that nearly every drop of water they've ever drank was once something's toilet.