The Making of a Beast’ on living in the Petrocene era in which we are heavily dependent on fossil fuels and the consequences ...

The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun on Saturday, casting a shadow on our planet in parts of the United States, ...

Skygazers across a broad swathe of the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance to see the Moon take a bite out of the Sun on ...

A NASA map shows the regions across the Northern Hemisphere where tomorrow's partial solar eclipse will be visible, how much ...

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic ...

An international team of polar ecologists, geographers, and marine scientists has found that global warming has, over the ...

As the Northern Hemisphere welcomes spring today, the Southern Hemisphere is marked with the first day of autumn.

The homicide rate reported by the Government of Jamaica is among the highest in the Western Hemisphere. Armed robberies and sexual assaults are common. "The U.S. Embassy routinely receives reports ...

Millions were dazzled by the "blood moon" total lunar eclipse Thursday night and Friday morning as clear skies provided a beautiful backdrop for the rare celestial event across much of the Western ...

Under a hot Caribbean sun at 3 p.m. one day last week, stevedores on Havana’s eastern waterfront bent to a task of No. 1 priority in Fidel Castro’s Cuba. In the holds of the 4,310-ton French ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...