When nature&#39;s wrath is history&#39;s reminder
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NEW YORK Humans might know that the universe is thought to be 15 billion years old, or that the Milky Way was formed 13 billion years ago, but the way we feel about ourselves in relation to a 4.5 billion-year-old earth is not much different from the way
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By Lindee, Susan  REBECCA M. HERZIG, Suffering for Science: Reason and Sacrifice in Modern America. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Pp. ?+194. ISBN: 0-8135-3662-6.
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THE number of wild animals across the world has plummeted by 40 per cent in the past 30 years because of changes in the way humans are living.
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It is time for the industrialised world to change its behaviour before the Arctic, its people and its wildlife are lost forever.
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Is our mishandling of the environment to blame for  the well-documented increase in the frequency and  severity of hurricanes? The answer is unclear.
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The Sun is in the thick of one of the longest and stormiest periods in 8000 years, say researchers who have tracked down an 11,400-year record of stormy sunspot activity in tree rings.
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate catastrophes.
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Fifteen years ago, our nation was shocked by Marc Lepine&#39;s rage against women. Today, the anniversary of the day he shot and killed 14 female engineering students in Montreal, Canadians pause to reflect on the tragedy of violence against women.
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A new look at climate conditions 55 million years ago shows that the Earth is more sensitive to small changes than previously believed.
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Signs of ancient eruptions indicate a planet geologically active and may suggest presence of simple life forms. By Peter N. Spotts | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Two decades after an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant sent clouds of radioactive particles drifting over the fields near her home, Maria Urupa says the wilderness is encroaching. Packs of wolves have eaten two of her dogs, the 73-year-old says, and wild boar trample through her cornfield. And she says fox, rabbits and snakes infest the meadows near her tumbledown cottage.
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Locked away in fossils is evidence of a sudden solar cooling. Kate Ravilious meets the experts who say it could explain a 3,000-year-old mass migration - and today&#39;s global warming.
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By Michael Hill  ALBANY, N.Y. - The tree stood tall and spindly in the hot sun 380 million years ago until something toppled it, maybe a storm or an earthquake.   It fell into water and dammed up in a muddy delta.
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Not all of the Arctic thaw is caused by man. Nature plays a role, too, but that doesn't let us off the hook for the damage we've done.
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Remember the population bomb, the fertility explosion set to devour the world&#39;s food and suck up or pollute all its air and water?
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INDIANAPOLIS -- History doesn&#39;t always comply with a television schedule. It cannot be choreographed, even when you think you can see it coming a mile away.
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By JOHANN HARI  In the black gloop of down-beat news on global warming and Iraq, we sometimes forget that, in at least one respect, we are living through a shimmering moment of progress that should fill us with awe.