Image of the Day: Infrared Satellite Image of Cyclone Yasi Striking Queensland Coast

Nearly 30% of the Earth’s terrestrial ice-free surface is devoted to livestock production, while 8% is devoted to production of crops that are directly consumed by people. As livestock production shifts to more intensive systems, it will place more pressure...

By Nathaniel Rich31 March 2016 (The New York Times Magazine) – "It just seems like a beautiful day in Southern California," Bryan Caforio said. It was late January in Porter Ranch, an affluent neighborhood on the northern fringe of Los...

The scale of the BP oil spill can be hard to take in. Now, five months on, these shocking figures reveal the extent of the devastation. Compiled by Alice-Azania Jarvis14 September 2010 11 platform workers were killed when the Deepwater...