Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

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The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people.

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Philippine seismologists say that a new offshore earthquake with a preliminary 6.9 magnitude hit the same southern region ...

Extreme weather events have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, taking a heavy human and economic toll worldwide, and are likely to wreak further havoc, the United Nations said on Monday.

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in ...