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By Steve Olafson OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Fourteen homes were damaged late on Saturday in the largest earthquake to hit Oklahoma on record, emergency management officials said on Sunday. [More]

The U.S. burns 900 million metric tons of coal per year. The combustion produces billions of tons of CO2, but also more than 100 million metric tons of coal ash , which includes nasty stuff like mercury and lead.

We are social animals.

We are social animals. So you might assume our brains are built to excel when we cooperate with each other, as opposed to when we function in isolation

It’s that time of year in the U.S.

It’s that time of year in the U.S. when clocks “fall back” from Daylight Saving Time to standard time. What does that mean?

HOHHOT, China -- It was late spring, and armed police were barring Inner Mongolia University students from leaving campus to protest the death of a herder run over by a coal truck. Students amassed in towns across the province to condemn coal companies they accused of riding roughshod over livestock grazing land

HOHHOT, China -- It was late spring, and armed police were barring Inner Mongolia University students from leaving campus to protest the death of a herder run over by a coal truck. Students amassed in towns across the province to condemn coal companies they accused of riding roughshod over livestock grazing land.

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By Henning Gloystein LONDON (Reuters) - The Fukushima disaster could lead to a 15 percent fall in world nuclear power generation by 2035, while power demand at the same time could rise by 3.1 percent a year, according to a draft copy of the International Energy Agency's 2011 World Energy Outlook. [More]

By Henning Gloystein LONDON (Reuters) - The Fukushima disaster could lead to a 15 percent fall in world nuclear power generation by 2035, while power demand at the same time could rise by 3.1 percent a year, according to a draft copy of the International Energy Agency's 2011 World Energy Outlook. [More]

Mars may be a small planet, but it has had an outsize appeal to storytellers and filmmakers over the years.

After being isolated from the rest of the world for nearly a year and a half, sealed away in a mock spacecraft, six volunteer astronauts "returned" to Earth today (Nov. 4) to end a simulated mission to Mars and back. [More]

WASHINGTON -- Our culture of sitting may be responsible for 173,000 cases of cancer each year, according to new estimates. Physical inactivity is linked to as many as 49,000 cases of breast cancer and 43,000 cases of colon cancer a year in the United States, said Christine Friedenreich, an epidemiologist at Alberta Health Services-Cancer Care in Canada. [More]