A landslide triggered by torrential rains in northern Pakistan has created a massive artificial lake in the Hunza valley, inundating several villages.Thousands of people are stranded in the highly mountainous region and forced to use boats to get around on icy waters.
After the recent earthquakes in Chile and Haiti, it is not surprising to see countries are updating their disaster contingency plans. As part of these plans, a range of different ideas and technologies are being considered to reduce the destruction caused by earthquakes.
Changes in the global climate are imposing additional stress on hundreds of species of migratory birds in the United States that are already threatened by other environmental factors, according to a new Interior Department report.
One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s early projects was Documerica, an effort "to photograph America’s environmental problems" from 1971 to 1977. Now they’re releasing the 15,000 photos from the vault at the National Archives and posting them on Flickr.
Europe is set to release its first non-native "biological control" species to curb the spread of Japanese knotweed.
MIT analysis suggests generating electricity from large-scale wind farms could influence climate — and not necessarily in the desired way.
For those who have misguidedly failed to develop an Armageddon plan, it's not too late. Here are the 6 phases you would probably go through if you were the only human left on Earth.
48% of Americans now believe that the seriousness of global warming is generally exaggerated, up from 41% in 2009 and 31% in 1997, when Gallup first asked the question.
Spread among the billions of trees around the globe are a few special ones, especially worthy of attention. Here are seven of the world's most amazing trees.
Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nationâs environment writ large.Now, those photos have made it out of the root cellar of the National Archive and onto Flickr Commons, where they are getting a wider viewing than they hâve ever received.
An extremely rare sight in Antarctica makes one bird appear underdressed.
A global seed vault dug out of an arctic mountainside has just reached its half-million mark of seed varieties.
Scientists are fighting back over climate change. Get the data behind the latest battle - and see how we visualized it.
Few people consider that these small gadgets in our pockets could be causing a lot of damage to the environment. The negative impact of cellphones on the environment can be reduced in some ways, but some of the serious environmental damage cellphones may be causing will be more difficult to fix.
They've been plugging away for awhile now on ways to get directions for cyclists that avoids hills, excessive traffic, and points you in the best directions for pedaling to your destination. Now it's live!
"South Korean researchers Tuesday launched an environmentally friendly public transport system using a 'recharging road' -- with a vehicle sucking power magnetically from buried electric strips."
Wind power has made incredible inroads into the U.S. energy system thanks to big, efficient machines standing hundreds of feet tall. But the future of wind power may be underground.