Science & Environment
Dominica pleads for help as storm death toll tops 30
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is pleading with world leaders to come to the rescue of his Caribbean island nation after it ...Year-long Mars isolation experiment begins
Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA ...Tropical Storm Erika kills at least 27 in Dominica
Tropical Storm Erika left at least 27 people dead when it swept over the tiny island nation of Dominica, officials reported, as ...Landslides kill five in Nepal quake zone
Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall killed at least five people in central Nepal, four of them in a shelter for survivors of ...Asteroid will not destroy Earth next month: NASA
The world can breathe easy. A giant asteroid is not hurtling towards Earth about to wipe out much of the Americas, NASA ...Tropical Storm Erika nears Antigua and Barbuda en route to Puerto Rico
A fast-moving Tropical Storm Erika neared Antigua and Barbuda early Thursday, dumping rain on the eastern Caribbean on a path expected to ...Quake-hit Nepal opens Everest for climbing
Nepal Sunday opened Everest for the autumn season, granting its first climbing permit four months after a deadly earthquake triggered an avalanche ...Uruguay flooding forces 4,000 from their homes
Flooding from days of heavy rain in Uruguay has forced nearly 4,000 people from their homes, officials said Monday.China blast residents evacuated over chemical fears
Chinese authorities have ordered the evacuation of a 3-kilometer (1.8-mile) zone around the northern port city of Tianjin over chemical contamination fears ...Japan restarts first nuclear reactor since Fukushima disaster
A power plant operator in southern Japan restarted a nuclear reactor on Tuesday, the first to begin operating under new safety requirements ...