US – World

March 24, 2011 — Russia's boreal forest -- the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country's cold northern regions -- is undergoing an accelerating large-scale shift in vegetation types as a result of globally and regional...

March 27, 2011 - As the lights come back on in the Cook Islands, the 134th country to celebrate Earth Hour 2011 – a record breaking year for the annual lights-out event – the global community has shown it is united in commitment to a sustainable fu...

BERN, SWITZERLAND, HOBART/ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, March 25, 2011 - One day ahead of Abdul Taib Mahmud's 30th anniversary in power as head of government of the resource-rich Malaysian state of Sarawak, environmental and human rights campaigners have staged...

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2011 — Global production of phosphorus fertilizer could peak and decline later this century, causing shortages and price spikes that jeopardize world food production, five major scientific societies warned today. The crisis will...

FUKUSHIMA, March 27, 2011 - Greenpeace radiation experts have confirmed radiation levels of up to ten micro Sieverts per hour (1) in Iitate village, 40km northwest of the crisis-stricken Fukushima/Daiichi nuclear plant, and 20km (2) beyond the official...

March 26, 2011 - Earth Hour has now swept into Europe, bringing with it a host of significant commitments of action on the environment from across Oceania and Asia. The symbolic action of turning lights out for an hour in an expression of concern fo...

A soccer coach has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old girl.

A 22-year-old snowboarder has been found dead after going missing Saturday afternoon. Crews found Phillip Walker's body in a tree well at Tahoe Resort. He was covered in several inches of snow, and investigators say it looked like Walker hit the tree, ...

Several hundred employees were evacuated from the Apple Distribution Center on Laguna Boulevard after a bomb threat was called in around 8 a.m. Monday morning.

A study by the Pearson Foundation shows that 47% of students in California's massive community college system can't get the classes that they need, at least not right away. By comparison, 28% of the students in other states have that problem.