Early on the morning of May 31, masked gunmen abducted 26-year-old Jairo Mora Sandoval from a vehicle he was using to patrol a desolate beach to protect nesting leatherback turtles from poachers.
The number of dust storms is rising. What does that mean?
First amphibian to officially be declared extinct has been rediscovered in Israel.
This weekend brought the sad news that Tim Samaras, a high-profile storm chaser, was killed with his son in Friday's twister in El Reno, Oklahoma. For years, Samaras has driven into the heart of tornadoes, equipment in hand, to learn more about them.
The challenge of keeping astronauts safe from hazardous radiation if and when they travel to and from Mars in the decades ahead will be daunting and unpredictable, according to the first-ever measurements of the high-energy particles that will saturate the spacecraft along the way.
While officials start to tally injuries, wrecked homes, and upturned lives, tornado researchers and chasers are swinging into high gear.
Anyone hoping to spice up their gluten-free diet need look only at the billions of beady-eyed, shrimp-size cicadas currently emerging from the ground in the eastern United States.
Atlantis was a myth, but real-life lost lands do exist.
13 days before Charles Lindbergh completed his flight across the atlantic, two former WWI flying aces took off from the same airfield and tried to beat him to the punch. They were never heard from again.
The arrest of an Auschwitz guard is part of Germany's last attempt to bring the aged men to justice.
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