From a distance the mounds read as color first. Faded reds and blues and the pale grey of sun-bleached cotton, spread in low ridges across the driest desert on earth, near Alto Hospicio in northern ...

For generations, farmers have spent backbreaking hours tearing down and rebuilding fences just to move livestock to fresh grazing fields. Now, thanks to a groundbreaking project at the University of ...

Drive south of Miami until the suburbs thin and the mangroves take the last of the light, and the road ends at a nuclear plant on Biscayne Bay. Homestead knows the place as Turkey Point. Two ...

The colonel who took power in Madagascar four months ago arrived in Moscow Wednesday for talks with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said, weeks after Russia sent the island military equipment.

In the Moroccan village of Ouled Salama, 63-year-old farmer Mohamed Reouani waded through his crops, now submerged by floodwaters after days of heavy downpours. Farmers in the North African kingdom ...

Researchers from Hebei University of Technology and Tsinghua University have developed a zwitterionic hydrogel evaporator that maintains high solar desalination performance while resisting salt ...

Ionizing radiation from nuclear disasters are known to be harmful to the natural environment. The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown that occurred in 2011 is a prominent example of such a ...

In September 2007, a Russian Foton-M3 capsule fell back through Earth’s atmosphere carrying a payload that would rewrite what biologists thought animals could endure. Bolted to the outside of the ...

The final stretch of Wisconsin State Highway 42, where the pavement bends into a wooded ridge above Green Bay before dead-ending at Northport, carries drivers through 15 curves packed into a 2.2-mile ...

The world-first insemination of an Amur leopard in France has lifted hopes of animal lovers for the survival of the Earth's rarest big cat. The spotted felines, native to the banks of the Siberian ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware have transformed discarded corn cobs and other agricultural byproducts into high performance biochar filters that capture both ammonia and tiny plastic ...

In a canyon on the Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah, a single quaking aspen has spread itself across 106 acres of hillside as roughly 47,000 genetically identical stems sharing one root ...