Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

KING Tutankhamun’s tomb is on the brink of collapse and could crumble down in a devastating disaster, archaeologists have ...

Villages in Western Alaska were hit by the remnants of a violent typhoon last week. Many survivors are unlikely to return ...

American ski mountaineer Jim Morrison has made history by becoming the first person to ski down Mount Everest’s North Face ...

The National Assessment considered 10 priority hazards (including temperature increases, drought, bushfires, storms, flooding and ocean warming) over historical (1850-1900), current (2011-2030), ...

Local author Tim Weed's fascinating new book, "The Afterlife Project" is a work of speculative fiction that features a ...

The UN-GGIM-AP is one of five regional committees under the umbrella of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global ...

The photographer has borne witness to conflict and suffering for three decades. Now her own story is told in a documentary ...

Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon bucket with clams ...

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the Philippines called for investments in disaster risk reduction (DRR) to make the country’s most ...

At the frontier of land science, GeoAI integrates Earth observation, machine learning, and deep learning to produce ...

A triad of SSGs, SSKs, and SSNs would comprise a forbidding implement of access denial for the US Navy in the Indo-Pacific.