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Tue, Feb 19, 2013 11:56 AM by Jerry James Stone
With extremely close-up images of the outdoor world, photographer Sharon Johnstone discovers beautiful colors and abstract compositions.
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Fri, Feb 15, 2013 1:36 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet
The geography of Central Valley — where much of the country's vegetables, fruits, nuts and meat is produced — resembles a bath tub, meaning aerosols and other pollutants get trapped there.
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Fri, Feb 15, 2013 11:05 AM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet
Researchers think the algae clumps grew better and faster in 2012 because the Arctic's thinning ice made more sunlight available underneath the ice floes.
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Thu, Feb 14, 2013 5:16 PM
Put down that hamburger, pick up a cricket burger, and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Wed, Feb 13, 2013 2:14 PM by Wynne Parry, LiveScience
SAR11 microbes are most abundant in the warm waters of rotating ocean currents, where they can account for as much as 40 percent of plankton cells.
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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 7:20 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience
The average student's idea of T. rex more closely matches Barney the purple dinosaur, standing upright instead of pitched all the way forward.
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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 4:20 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience
The vast depletion of groundwater could spell trouble in a region that already has many conflicts over water.
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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 2:48 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
Antarctica is particularly vulnerable to ozone-depleting substances, because high winds cause a vortex of cold air to circulate over the continent.
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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 12:06 PM by Environmental Health News
There is little international policing of land deals resulting in local farmers being forced off lands and deeper into poverty.
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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 10:56 AM by Wynne Parry, LiveScience
A historian finds inspiration for the modern environmental movement in the garden-style cemeteries of the 19th century.
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Tue, Feb 12, 2013 10:09 AM by Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet
A tourist was able to photograph the epic collapse of Patagonian ice bridge Perito Moreno into an icy lake below.
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Mon, Feb 11, 2013 4:16 PM by Douglas Main, OurAmazingPlanet
UV rays break carbon and stimulate bacteria that turns the carbon into carbon dioxide.
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Mon, Feb 11, 2013 1:25 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience
From huge snow dunes to the shape and uniqueness of snowflakes, here's some handy snow trivia.
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Fri, Feb 08, 2013 11:07 AM by Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience
The new findings may result in scientists being better able to predict when earthquakes may occur.
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Fri, Feb 08, 2013 9:49 AM
Video: For years, the tallest trees in the world have been cut down – its population decimated. Today, only a small fraction of the majestic trees remain, many of them protected in national parks. But a scientist is hoping to regrow the Redwoods, and reverse some of the damage.
