The nuclear crisis in Japan has intensified a conflict over a project to turn weapons-grade plutonium into a commercial fuel called mixed oxide, or mox.

By Yoko Kubota and Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO -- Japanese nuclear power plant operator TEPCO expects to stop pumping radioactive water into the ocean on...

Hinduism contains numerous references to the worship of the divine in nature, and millions of Hindus recite Sanskrit mantras daily to revere rivers, mountains, trees, animals and the earth.

It is vital that the administration and Congress follow the Commission's recommendations to help ensure we never see an oil disaster play out in vulnerable Arctic waters.

The United Nations has warned that up to 3.5 million children were at risk from water-borne diseases in Pakistan's floods and said it was bracing for thousands of potential cholera cases.

BILLINGS, Mont. ? Yellowstone's grizzlies are going to be particularly hungry this fall, and that means more dangerous meetings with humans in a year that...

Smartphones will make up over half of Asian mobile phone sales by 2015, with 477 million units likely to be sold, an industry report said Monday.

If preliminary results hold true, they would add weight to warnings that the heavily dispersed oil in the gulf remains a persistent threat to sea life.

Russia's conflagration is a graphic demonstration of the consequences of the dependency on fossil fuels and poor forest management.

Scientists have used CT scans and computer modeling to reconstruct the feeding behavior of one of 18 known species of terror bird, Andalgalornis steulleti, which lived in northwest Argentina until about six million years ago.