Beijing’s smog is back year after Olympics

Amid fears the city's chronic smog could damage athlete's health, Beijing took drastic steps to prevent that last August,

Read More...

Latest Earthquakes

Strong earthquake shakes southern Peru LIMA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake of magnitude 5 shook Monday the city

Read More...

King salmon vanishing in Alaska

ANCHORAGE — Yukon River smokehouses should be filled this summer with oil-rich strips of king salmon — long used

Read More...

Krakatoa getting ready to blow

One of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more. Last time, it

Read More...

Hundreds sickened by China chemical plant

More than 500 people have been sickened by pollution from a chemical plant in central China that has also

Read More...

At risk from rising seas, Tuvalu seeks clean power

Pacific island state of Tuvalu set a goal Sunday of a 100 percent shift to renewable energy by 2020,

Read More...

Massive explosion of fierce forest fires ravage western Canada

Firefighters in British Columbia struggled Sunday morning to contain some 500 forest fires that have forced the evacuation of

Read More...

Coal fires up India farmers against power plants

Rajni Ramakan Patil has a message for the energy companies that want to build coal-based power stations on the

Read More...

Wild Winds whip up fierce forest fires on Spain’s Canary Islands

LA PALMA, Canary Islands -- Strong winds fanned forest fires for a second day Sunday on the Spanish Canary

Read More...

Man dies from black plague in China, 11 others infected

BEIJING -- Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man

Read More...

Mobile Sliding Menu