Our internal body clocks are shaped by the weather as well as by the seasons, scientists have discovered. It is hoped the research, led by a team from...
AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
MIAMI — Forecasters say Hurricane Rick is the strongest hurricane in the eastern north Pacific Ocean in more than a decade. The U.S. National H...
1010wins.com | Posted 10.15.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (1010 WINS/AccuWeather) -- Forecasters are calling for several days of wet and windy weather a Nor'easter bears down on the Tri-State area. ...
AP | DAN GELSTON | Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver
PHILADELPHIA — Dexter Fowler saw Jayson Werth's deep shot to center and considered the ball gone. Then the Colorado center fielder thought he co...
The New York Times | Paul Krugmab | Posted 11.28.2009 | Green
Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we're...
AP | JIM GOMEZ | Posted 11.26.2009 | World
MANILA, Philippines — Many Filipinos tried to rebuild their lives Monday after saving little more than the clothes they wore in a tropical storm...
AP | JAMES BELTRAN | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green
LOS ANGELES — The western flank of the deadly wildfire north of Los Angeles was under control Saturday, sparing foothill communities further thr...
AP | GREG RISLING and RAQUEL MARIA DILLON | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
LOS ANGELES — Investigators launched a homicide investigation Thursday into the wildfire north of Los Angeles after determining that the giganti...
AP | KEVIN MAURER | Posted 09.28.2009 | New York
CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — Coastal residents looked ahead Friday to a late-summer weekend with fewer beach-loving tourists as Tropical Storm Danny k...
Michael Bialas | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
Folk enthusiasts were like transfixed students eager to soak up some musical knowledge. They were schooled in a wide variety of styles during an afternoon and evening of intense instruction.
AP | JONATHAN M. KATZ | Posted 09.17.2009 | Green
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The first hurricane of this year's Atlantic season gathered force far out to sea late Monday, while weaker storm systems...
ABC News | PATRIK JONSSON | Posted 09.16.2009 | Green
The people of U.S. Gulf Coast have felt unusually battered by big storms during the past few years. Now, it turns out their instincts are right. A ne...
AP | BROOKE DONALD | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green
DAVENPORT, Calif. — California deployed more fire crews across the state Friday to gain control of a series of growing wildfires that have force...
BBC NEWS | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green
Scientists examined sediments left by hurricanes that crossed the coast in North America and the Caribbean. The record suggests modern hurricane ac...
AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Even if the world is successful in cutting carbon emissions in the future, California needs to start preparing for rising s...
AP | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) -- Last month was Illinois' coldest July since 1924. Preliminary data gathered by researchers at the University of Illinois in U...
CBS 2 | Posted 08.28.2009 | Chicago
The National Weather Service says 2009 has seen the coldest July since the official recording station was moved away from the lakefront in 1942. The a...
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 08.25.2009 | Chicago
We cannot overlook the one thing Obama has already accomplished for his home town in the seven short months since taking the oath of office. It is his crowning achievement.
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — El Nino is back. Government scientists said Thursday that the periodic warming of water in the tropical Pacific Ocean, which can a...
New York Daily News | Barry Paddock and Stephanie Gaskell | Posted 08.09.2009 | New York
A mom's decision to let her 7-year-old son sleep saved his life. Hours after Jennifer Crespo decided to leave her son Trent in the basement - rather ...
Suzy Bales | Posted 08.01.2009 | Home
This rampant summer growth is caused by a combination of almost constant sunlight, cool 50-degree nights and warm - not hot - 70-degree days.
Posted 07.31.2009 | New York
New Yorkers this weekend snapped photos and shot video of the sky last weekend after rare clouds, resulting from moist air and dry air mixing after a ...
AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Mud season has been extended. From North Dakota to Long Island, rain after rain after rain has dampened spirits and swamped roads. ...
Harry Fuller | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green
Less than six months after Dick Cheney lost his power position in Washington D.C., federal scientists have re-gained their freedom of speech. Today a...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 07.11.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the United States. And the cause, iro...
BBC NEWS | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living