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“Like a drop of water in a bucket, on its own is small, but if there are many, many drops, soon it is overflowing.” Erietera Aram’s water...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

A spike in electricity demand in South Australia and NSW on Friday as temperatures soar over 40 degrees could lead to blackouts. The...

Elephants in India are sporting colourful woollen jumpers after villagers knitted the super-size garments to protect the animals from...

National Geographic photos tell a story of rapid change for the polar bear. Several of this year’s winning photos, such as glimpses of...

Internal displacement across Africa is almost always attributed to civil strife or full-blown wars. But a new report from the Internal...

STOCKHOLM — The world is nowhere near on track to achieve the ambitious temperature goals adopted in the landmark Paris Agreement on...

There are many ways to measure our progress to mitigate global warming. One of the surest is to ask whether economic growth, which has...

Cities that mimic forests, bricks made from converted carbon dioxide and highways lined with wind turbines powered by traffic. These are...

Very few places on Earth beat the Mediterranean as a holiday destination in the summer. That may all change within a few decades. By...