The numbers don't add up. $3.8 billion: The initial Help America Vote Act allocation that California Secretary of State Deborah Bowen said "pushed many counties into buying electronic systems that ... were not properly reviewed or tested."

When you approach the Erez frontier post to enter Gaza from the north, you notice a concentration camp straightaway even if you may never have seen one like the ones turned into museums or educational centres, or like the ones that appear in documentaries

Conventional medicine has stumbled onto a nutritional truth they'd rather try to ignore: Most expectant mothers are severely deficient in magnesium. Adding it to their blood greatly increases the health

It's looking like the ice at the North Pole won't melt to water next month, as had been feared. It would have been the first time in thousands of years that the most northerly place on the planet would have been ice-free

Struggling against the waves, this polar bear faces almost certain death after becoming lost at sea in the Arctic.

Blistering heat waves will become increasingly common sooner than feared, suggests new research. Some of the most serious consequences of climate change, including fatalities, result from extreme events, yet they have received relatively little attention

2006, the President signed into law a requirement to rebuild overfished populations like Atlantic bluefin tuna within a decade. There's just one catch: overexploited species only have a chance to survive if the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) c

Compact fluorescent light bulbs can release dangerous amounts of mercury into the air when they break and must be disposed of very carefully, according to a report by the state of Maine.

The Montreal Economic Institute, which is a think tank, is now urging Canada to export its fresh water for financial gain. This will mortgage Canada's future for possible short-term benefits.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's reputation as a crusading reformer after pushing through higher taxes on oil companies has been tarnished by revelations that members of her staff tried to have her former