Halifax residents are marking the anniversary of the deadly explosion that levelled parts of the city 87 years ago. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Norwegian ship Imo collided with the French vessel Mont-Blanc, ...

Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century ...

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were ...

Learn how scientists track Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, and assess its low impact risk to protect Earth from future ...

Organizers want the July 4 fireworks in the nation’s capital to break the world record. But the fun will also come with air ...

The off-duty soldiers were in a coffee shop near to Peace Square in Kramatorsk when a Russian glide bomb struck nearby.

Conventional wisdom holds that innovation is the domain of bold entrepreneurs and private enterprise, with government at best ...

Nearly 80 years ago, Kiyoshi Tanimoto documented the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing during World War II. His manuscript ...

A Hiroshima survivor’s memoir, written nearly 80 years ago, will be published for the first time after being discovered in a ...

Elizabeth Tynan suspects Australia still doesn't know the full truth about Operation Mosaic. (PR IMAGE PHOTO) Such was the ...

The United States and Iran have signed an interim deal aimed at ending their war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz. It provides a way to potentially end a war that killed thousands, including the ...

The Torrance Refinery Action Alliance (TRAA) sued two Southern California refineries this month in the wake of the Garden Grove chemical leak that forced nearly 50,000 residents to evacuate. The ...