Glass beads found in Australia point to huge asteroid hit
SYDNEY -- Australian scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid they say slammed into Earth some 3.46 billion years ago -- making it...
Most Texas quakes likely caused by oil, gas activities: study
OIL AND gas activities may have caused nearly nine in 10 of the earthquakes Texas has experienced in the past 40 years, and the...
Botanists warn on threats to world’s plant kingdom
LONDON — Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world’s plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind...
Van Gogh recycled: Four million bottles used in Taiwan replica
A TAIWAN company has used four million colorful plastic bottles to produce a giant replica of Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night to...
Scientists find new earthlike planets, novelist imagines living there
IT’S a staple of science fiction: A city-size starship leaves our solar system, its passengers propagate on a trip that spans multiple generations and...
Tarsiers in Tagum
TAGUM CITY — Considered to be the world’s smallest primate, tarsiers are usually found in the province of Bohol in the Visayas region.
A tarsier...
Wave of dead sea creatures hits Chile’s beaches
SANTIAGO, CHILE — Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Niño weather phenomenon have clogged Chile’s Pacific beaches in recent...
Construction is bustling at Florida’s first ‘sustainable town’
PUNTA GORDA, UNITED STATES -- With deep pockets and an environmentalist’s zeal, retired American football player Syd Kitson dreamed up a plan to build...
Climate: half-a-degree makes a huge difference
PARIS -- A jump in global temperature of two degrees Celsius would double the severity of crop failures, water shortages and heatwaves in many...
‘Once-a-century’ climate hazards will hit Europe yearly: study
VIENNA -- By mid-century, pockets of southern Europe will face at least one severe climate hazard every year of the scale now occurring only...
‘Pioneer’ commuters go electric in polluted Mexico City
MEXICO CITY -- Martin Vazquez glides silently through the pandemonium of rush hour in Mexico City, drives his sky-blue scooter up to a charging...
Mosquitoes: can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em
Paris — Mozzies. Skeeters. Stingers. Whatever you call them, mosquitoes don’t get much love from our species.
And why should they? The buzzing bloodsuckers make...