Students are now graduating with a new degree in this type of sustainable lifestyle, focusing more on the MBA subject of environmentally-friendly businesses, rather on the Wall-Street oriented future.

Looking ahead to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn't happen again -- and in ironic fashion it could be precipitated if ongoing changes in climate force the Greenland ice sheet to suddenly melt, scientists say.

After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape crowning the planet.

Deforestation in tropical rain forests could have an even greater impact on climate change than has previously been thought. The combined biomass of a large number of small forest fragments left over after habitat fragmentation can be up to 40 per cent le

The sound level of songs blue whales sing across the vast expanses of the ocean to attract potential mates has been steadily creeping downward for the past few decades,

On Tuesday evening, December 8th, thousands of physicists around the world cheered as CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) smashed together subatomic particles at the highest energies ever reached by a human-made accelerator and the giant ATLAS detector obs

There is more to the snowflake than its ability to delight schoolchildren and snarl traffic.

A team of academics and students at the University of Southampton have begun work on a solar-electric powered boat which they claim will be one of the most sophisticated to enter the annual prestigious Solar Splash competition so far.

A giant iceberg double the size of Sydney Harbour is on a slow but steady collision course with Australia, scientists have said.

A count of Alaska's Steller sea lion pups indicates the state's two populations are headed in different directions for recovery.