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QUITO, ECUADOR--Long before the Spanish conquered the Incas in 1533, and centuries before the Incas inhabited this area, the present-day site of Quito International Airport was a marshy lake surrounded by Indian settlements--the Quitus on one shore and the Ipias on the other. Between A.D.

Inspired by the power of stories, two former journalists have enlisted high fashion for a higher cause. A new jewelry company called Altruette sells charm bracelets representing different nonprofits that receive 50% of profits from every purchase--typically between $155 to $175 per charm. Each gold or silver pendant (there are about 30) has a unique design and a unique story.

It seems like there is a new flood, tornado, or hurricane every day. Is this the kind of meteorological insanity we need to learn to expect? Snowpocalypse! Tornadoes! Floods! Climate change may seem like tired old news or ideological propaganda to some of us, but this year's weather has certainly been something to sit up and take notice of.

Mornings on Hangzhou’s West Lake begin with a subtle symphony. Docked wooden sampan boats creak and moan, rhythmically bobbing with the lake’s waterline.

A giant softshell turtle known as Cu Rua that has been living in Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, for more than a century is one of the last four members of its critically endangered species, Rafetus swinhoei . The freshwater animal weighs about 200 kilograms and is worshiped as a deity that protects the city, but neither its size nor its stature has prevented it from being injured recently by fishermen and an aggressive invasive species.

The surface of the Dead Sea, already 424 meters below sea level, is falling by a meter a year. Jordanians to the east, Israelis to the west, and Syrians and Lebanese to the north are pumping so much freshwater from the Jordan River that almost none reaches the sea any more.

The Dead Sea is a place of mystery: the lowest surface on Earth, the purported site of Sodom and Gomorrah, a supposed font of curative waters and, despite its name, a treasure trove of unusual microbial life.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data collected by the BaBar experiment during its final months of operation in 2008 point to a new member of the "bottomonium" family of subatomic particles.

There are some 700 million people in Africa without access to electricity. As the continent modernizes, those people will need power.

It has been 70 years since Rothschild giraffes ( Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi ), aka Baringo giraffes, disappeared from the Lake Baringo area of Kenya that gave them one of their names. But now eight of these critically endangered animals have returned to the lake, and with them comes an unexpected bonus: a promise of peace. [More]