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VIENNA, March 24 (Reuters) - Japanese scientists have found measurable concentrations of radioactive iodine-131 and caesium-137 in seawater samples taken 30 km (18 miles) from land, the U.N. [More]

By Fredrik Dahl VIENNA (Reuters) - The closing of aging nuclear reactors is expected to peak in 2020-30, posing a major challenge in terms of safety and the environment, a draft U.N. atomic agency report says

Underlying the wave of unrest across North Africa and the Middle East is the fact that some of the cries for democracy are coming from mouths in need of food. Media outlets around the world were quick to make the link between food and the protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria, pointing to one specific grain: wheat. Egypt is the largest importer of wheat in the world, with Algeria not far behind.

An oil spill off the South Atlantic island of Nightingale has put nearly half of the world's population of endangered northern rockhopper penguins ( Eudyptes moseleyi ) at risk. The Maltese-registered ship MS Olivia ran aground on Nightingale Island on March 16. The New York Times reported Wednesday that more than 725 metric tons of fuel oil--half the cargo--had already leaked from the ship, surrounding the island in an 13-kilometer-wide oil slick.

A new statistical analysis indicates that the more Facebook fans an African politician has, the more likely they are to be forced from power.

“That was a really impressive exam. Why don’t you write your dissertation on that subject

Most people know two things about helium. One is that it makes your voice comically high-pitched when you inhale it; the other is that it is extremely light, which is why balloons filled with the stuff float upward through the heavier air. But in particle physics terms--and especially when it comes to the nuclear physics of antimatter--helium is no lightweight.

By Janelle Weaver Researchers in Japan have made fertile mammalian sperm in a culture dish, a feat long thought to be impossible. [More]

Illustration by I Love Dust Why Bloomberg broke into the business of measuring other companies' good deeds. Curtis Ravenel spearheads Bloomberg's program to include enviromental data on its terminals. | Photograph Courtesy of Bloomberg SOON AFTER Bloomberg's sustainability director, Curtis Ravenel, launched an initiative to green the company's operations in 2006, he began to wonder: How do other businesses measure their impact on the environment?

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HONOLULU (Reuters) - Specialized firefighting teams Wednesday battled a remote wildfire touched off by the eruption of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, which has burned some 2,000 acres of national park land. The fire threatens a fragile, protected rain forest, officials said. [More]

Pregnant women shouldn’t drink. It’s become gospel, because of the danger of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Photographs by Malcolm Brown Imagine what creativity might erupt, says Linda Tischler, if design were taught in middle school. YEARS AGO, we had a running joke at Fast Company: What if we tallied up all the game-changing ideas CEOs claimed had come from their 13-year-old kids

The same company behind the popular Roomba robocleaner is producing an underwater robot that can stay below the surface for months.

The first new nuclear reactor ordered in the U.S. in roughly three decades is beginning to take shape near Augusta, Ga.