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“Game over” for climate change . So opines NASA climatologist Jim Hansen when it comes to the development of the Canadian tar sands.

Ninety percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan's poppy fields -- much of it is turned into heroin

Ninety percent of the world's opium originates in Afghanistan's poppy fields -- much of it is turned into heroin

Scientists have recently found humanity's nitrogen footprint on watersheds once thought to be isolated and pristine, indicating our impact on the world is more widespread than previously imagined. [More]

By Janeman Latul and Fathiya Dahrul JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's government plans to create one of the world's largest palm oil and rubber firms in March by combining state planters with total assets of $5.6 billion, a government minister told Reuters on Thursday. [More]

In a flash, the world changed for Tim Noe – and for physicists who study what they call many-body problems.

For good or bad, from 1980-2010, North America lost some of its oil production edge. Thirty (two) years ago, this region of the world represented 20% of the world’s crude oil production

By Deborah Zabarenko and Nina Chestney (Reuters) - Representatives from around the world gather in Rio in June to try to hammer out goals for sustainable development at a U.N. conference designed to avoid being tripped up by the intractable issue of climate change.

Smartphones help us connect with the world, but are we bending too much to accommodate them? "CBS This Morning" contributor Lee Woodruff reports on the link between cell phones and posture problems.

Manufacture d’horlogerie Breguet celebrates the 200th anniversary of the creation of the world’s first wristwatch, which it produced for the queen of Naples, Napol

Taking inspiration from the first two people to reach the summit of K2, the second tallest mountain in the world, Italian and German design companies Mykita and Moncler have teamed up to create a functional and stylish collection of snow optics called an Homage to the Mountains. The lenses, which ...

Attend any auto show around the world and you will find concept vehicles that defy automotive conventions and stereotypes. However, many of these cars never make it into production because most manufacturers build them as case studies to gauge public perception

By Quirin Schiermeier of Nature magazine Natural disasters around the world last year caused a record $380 billion in economic losses. [More]

Israel may be the world's next energy superpower . But is this good for the Jews

When an international collaboration of physicists came up with a result that punched a hole in Einstein's theory of special relativity and couldn't find any mistakes in their work, they asked the world to take a second look at their experiment.