Massive volcanic eruptions may have led to the extermination of half of Earth's species some 200 million years ago, a new study suggests. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
SAN FRANCISCO - Volcanic activity in modern-day India, not an asteroid, may have killed the dinosaurs, according to a new study. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
WALTHAM CROSS, England (Reuters) - British crew Tim Baillie and Etienne Stott powered to gold in the Olympic canoe double final at the Lee Valley White Water Centre on Thursday. In a thrilling duel in front of a roaring home crowd, they beat fellow B... [Full Article]
More than 500 million people live close to volcanoes that could erupt with little or no clear warning, causing widespread devastation and even global effects on climate, as in the case of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Although scientists keep ... [Full Article]
Sky News, the British broadcaster partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, admitted on Thursday that it had illegally hacked into the emails of a man who notoriously faked his own death in a life insurance scam. (Source: AFP)... [Full Article]
After 76 days, Gabor Rakonczay - isolated and incommunicado for nearly 50 of those after his canoe capsized - has become the first person to paddle across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to the Caribbean. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Men paddle canoes filled with sand through water hyacinth floating on the Lagos Lagoon October 26, 2011. Rapidly growing megacities in Africa and Asia face the highest risks from rising sea levels, floods and other climate change impacts,... [Full Article]
(Reuters) - Visitors sit in a canoe and play a game at the Nintendo exhibition stand during the Gamescom 2011 fair in Cologne August 17, 2011. The Gamescom convention, Europe's largest video games trade fair, runs from August 17 to August 21. R... [Full Article]
(AFP Graphic) - The 1,580-metre Mount Lokon is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia. A series of eruptions at an Indonesian volcano have thrown rocks, lava and ash hundreds of metres into the air and forced thousands of people to flee.(AFP G... [Full Article]