Wisconsin's coming resurfacing of the final 2.2 miles of Highway 42 in Door County is a mill-and-overlay on the existing ...

In a canyon on the Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah, a single quaking aspen has spread itself across 106 acres of hillside as roughly 47,000 genetically identical stems sharing one root ...

On September 8, 1854, a Soho physician named John Snow persuaded the Board of Guardians of St James’s parish to unscrew the handle from a water pump on Broad Street. The cholera outbreak that had ...

Seoul (AFP) Dec 26, 2007 - A Hong Kong-registered supertanker at the centre of South Korea's worst oil spill has been impounded until clean-up costs of more than 11 million dollars are paid, ...

Drive south of Miami until the suburbs thin and the mangroves take the last of the light, and the road ends at a nuclear plant on Biscayne Bay. Homestead knows the place as Turkey Point. Two ...

In the Moroccan village of Ouled Salama, 63-year-old farmer Mohamed Reouani waded through his crops, now submerged by floodwaters after days of heavy downpours. Farmers in the North African kingdom ...

The most surprising thing about the eighth continent is not that it is underwater. It is that it used to be dry. For most of the 85 million years since Zealandia broke away from the supercontinent ...

Ask almost anyone which point on Earth is closest to space and you’ll hear “Everest” straight away. It’s the answer taught in schools, printed in atlases, repeated at trivia nights. And it quietly ...

Finland has roughly as many saunas as households — and, by some estimates, more. A country of fewer than six million people has roughly 3.3 million saunas, and almost 90 percent of Finns use one once ...

Researchers from Hebei University of Technology and Tsinghua University have developed a zwitterionic hydrogel evaporator that maintains high solar desalination performance while resisting salt ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware have transformed discarded corn cobs and other agricultural byproducts into high performance biochar filters that capture both ammonia and tiny plastic ...

Representative image of dark stone material. Photo by Atlantic Ambience on Pexels. On the morning of 28 September 1969, a meteorite broke apart over the town of Murchison in Victoria, Australia. Local ...