New big cat comes out of the jungle

The big cats prowling the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra had long been assumed to be the same clouded leopards...

Blondes ‘to die out in 200 years’

Granted, we will all be dead in 200 years … BBC NEWS | Health | Blondes ‘to die out in...

Australia to ban incandescent bulbs

Australia has announced it will ban incandescent light bulbs in three years in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,...

An Island to Oneself: Six Years on a Desert Island

This is very cool. A story about a guy spending 6 years on a deserted island. Apparently there’s a tourism...

Daryl Hannah arrested in a tree

Daryl Hannah has been arrested in a tree as she tried to save a green space in Los Angeles from...

Fossil find fills evolution gap

An international team of scientists has discovered 4.1-million-year-old fossils in eastern Ethiopia that fill a missing gap in human evolution....

“Missing link” between fish/land animals

Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals,...

Turf Warrior

Nearly 50,000 square miles of the continental US is covered by lawn, according to estimates by ecologists at NASA’s Ames...

Winter warmest ever on record in Canada

The winter of 2005-2006 has been Canada’s warmest on record and the federal agency Environment Canada said Monday it was...

Rapid melt shrinks Greenland’s ice cap

The ice sheet sitting atop Greenland is the world’s largest storehouse of ice outside Antarctica, and the coldest region of...