Tropical Cyclone Yasi forecast track map, 2:01 pm AEST, 2 February 2011

Reductions in terrestrial snow cover (blue) and sea ice (red) extent during June to August over the Northern Hemisphere since the late 1960s and 1970s, respectively. Data are from the Global Snow Lab, Rutgers University, New Jersey, and the U.S....

  By GARY CHITTIM / KING 5 News TULALIP, Wash. – On Friday, the federal government recognized what Puget Sound fisherman have known for years. The sockeye salmon are gone. The U.S. Secretary of Commerce declared a disaster for Frasier...

By HIROKO TABUCHI8 June 2011 IWAKI-YUMOTO, Japan — Just after 6 a.m. in this still sleepy hot spring town, bleary-eyed workers emerged from their inns, ready to board buses to return to their daily battle to contain the crisis at...