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WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 2017 TO FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2017 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Background The 2017 Africa Regional Forum on sustainable...

Villagers express delight after entire beach that vanished in Achill Island storms in 1984 turns back sands of time. An Irish beach that...

In 2016, a week after scientists in the US clinked champagne glasses to celebrate the monumental discovery of gravitational waves in...

The Trump administration took its first truly protectionist step yesterday, but its target wasn’t China or Mexico. Instead, the US...

Meet "Steve," a strange, new aurora feature discovered by citizen scientists and verified by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Swarm...

Watching icebergs floating by the eastern coast of Newfoundland is a time-honored tradition on one Canadian island in the North Atlantic....

An immense river that flowed from one of Canada’s largest glaciers vanished over the course of four days last year, scientists have...

More than 50 new species of spider, including a peacock spider with a “wonderful courtship behaviour, like dancing”, have been discovered...

Generating electricity from the sun and wind is great for the planet, but the infrastructure necessary to deal with these intermittent...

On March 13, 2017, at the Commonwealth Luncheon held at Government House, Dr. John Innes presented a wonderful talk about the Queen's...

Prince Harry has found a new way to honour his late mother, Princess Diana. To mark International Mine Awareness Day on Tuesday, the...

More than 400 icebergs have drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes over the past week in an unusually large swarm for this early...

Just as birders can identify birds by their melodious calls, David George Haskell can distinguish trees by their sounds. The task is...

MARCH 31, 2017 —The Tasmanian tiger is a creature of legend. The only confirmed sightings since the last one held in captivity died in...

In the space of a week, the world has gained three notable new legal persons: the Whanganui River in New Zealand, and the Ganga and...

About 25,000 people living in north Queensland have been told to evacuate, with fears Cyclone Debbie will bring a devastating tidal surge...

The Centre for European Studies' Jean Monnet EU Centre of Excellence is pleased to invite you to attend a conference on "The EU and...

Prince Harry will pay a visit to Epping Forest this Wednesday, to view the Wood Pasture Restoration Project which is part of The Queen’s...

SYDNEY, Australia — The Great Barrier Reef in Australia has long been one of the world’s most magnificent natural wonders, so enormous it...

MARCH 11, 2017 —For a space program that’s made impressive strides in recent years, the early death of Chandrayaan-1 likely came as a...