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One hundred and eleven years ago today – on January 10, 1901 – an oil gusher rang in a new era in energy leadership. This was the day when a plume of oil surged almost 100 feet into the air at Lucas No. 1, at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas

Waste Ventures is transforming garbage-and-recycling collection in the developing world into sustainable communities, and a growing business.

In a single year, a couple got married, got pregnant, and founded a fast-growing company.

Poaching of elephants and the illegal trade in their tusks and related ivory products were out of control in 2011, with more than 2,500 animals confirmed killed and thousands of kilograms of tusks seized by customs officials around the world. This was the worst year on record since the international ivory trade ban was established in 1989, according to TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.

A magnetic sense is now well documented in dozens of animal species. It turns out that tracking the geomagnetic field that same invisible thing that points compasses is handy for life, in lots of situations

A magnetic sense is now well documented in dozens of animal species. It turns out that tracking the geomagnetic field that same invisible thing that points compasses is handy for life, in lots of situations. Using their internal compasses, naked mole rats in Africa navigate their pitch-black underground mazes.

Most travelers who view the animals in Africa and Antarctica capture the sights in photographs, but Hamish Mackie goes further.

Starting and running a company in an emerging market means you need to forget some of the basic things you've learned about entrepreneurship.

[the following is a modified repost from Myrmecos , 2010] Image by US Army Africa, used under a Creative Commons CC-BY 2.0 license [More]

SAN FRANCISCO - To get a glimpse of the future , look to East Africa today. [More]

By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Reuters) - Africa is leading the push for clean energy policy-making as climate change turns millions of its people into "food refugees," the head of the U.N. Environment Program (UNEP) Achim Steiner said. [More]

Want to keep your computers, e-mails, and business secrets safe? Learn the latest in data encryption. Encryption isn’t typically something we hear too much about, even though most people use it every day unknowingly

The giant marabou stork found at Liang Bua is an extinct relative of the modern marabou stork from Africa shown here. Credit: Lip Kee/Flickr via Creative Commons license LAS VEGAS–A study of bird remains from the same cave that yielded bones of a mini human species called Homo floresiensis and nicknamed the hobbit has cast new light on the lost world of this enigmatic human relative. The findings hint that the hobbits’ island home was quite ecologically diverse, and raise the possibility that the tiny humans had to defend their kills from giant carnivorous birds

After 20 months of remission, Ethan Zohn's cancer has returned. Chris Wragge and Rebecca Jarvis talk to the "Survivor: Africa" winner and his girlfriend, Jenna Morasca about Zohn's latest battle and the next round of treatments

In the classic book series, Little House on the Prairie , Pa's wanderlust repeatedly drives the Ingalls family westward past the edges of civilization.