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MOORE, Oklahoma (Reuters) - A huge tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour devastated the Oklahoma City suburb of Moor...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An automated telescope monitoring the moon has captured images of an 88-pound (40 kg) roc...
(Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-siz...
DALLAS (Reuters) - At least six people were killed and scores more injured when tornadoes ripped through a stretch of Texas n...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top transportation safety agency voted on Tuesday to recommend a lower blood alcohol limit for dri...
HAMDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Colossal numbers of cicadas, unhurriedly growing underground since 1996, are about to emerge ...
WEST, Texas (Reuters) - An explosion tore through a fertilizer plant and leveled dozens of homes in a small Texas town late o...
OSLO (Reuters) - Climate change could get worse quickly if huge amounts of extra heat absorbed by the oceans are released bac...
By Ben BlanchardBEIJING (Reuters) - China said it was mobilizing resources nationwide to combat a new strain of deadly bird f...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - The makers of Angry Birds are launching a cartoon series this weekend, expanding further beyond its high...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans commuting by public transportation rose to the second highest level on record ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian scientists believe they have discovered new life forms sealed off for millions of years in a subgl...
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A German travel agency is selling tickets for a flight to give 88 astronomy buffs a close-up view of on...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, - A nonprofit foundation wants to recruit a man and a woman - possibly a married couple - for a bare...
(Reuters) - Pat Derby, a show business animal trainer who worked on the television programs "Flipper" and "Las...
CHELYABINSK, Russia (Reuters) - More than 500 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky and exploded over cent...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Dinosaurs died off about 33,000 years after an asteroid hit the Earth, much sooner than s...
BEALLSVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Leon Lieser has been a coal miner 49 years, his bent fingers testament to his first job, loadin...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The year 2012 was the warmest on record for the contiguous United States, beating the previous record by ...
OSLO (Reuters) - Green schemes to fight climate change by producing more bio-fuels could actually worsen a little-known type ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of NASA moon-mapping probes smashed themselves into a lunar mountain on Monday, en...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Despite searing daytime temperatures, Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has ice and...
(Reuters) - New York state and New Jersey need at least $71.3 billion to recover from the devastation wrought by Supersto...
LONDON (Reuters) - An Anglo-German team of astronomers has discovered a new planet orbiting a nearby sun at just the right di...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - From New York City's Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and offi...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Barack Obama was to resume campaigning on Thursday after a pause caused by the U.S. east coast...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Millions of people were left reeling in the aftermath of monster storm Sandy on Tuesday as New York City...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the East Coast, strengthened on Monday after hundreds...
HAVANA (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy swelled into a serious threat to much of the U.S. East Coast on Thursday after hammering C...
(Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity tasted Martian dirt for the first time on Thursday, testing equipment needed to a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in th...
PASADENA, California (Reuters) - The Mars rover Curiosity was due to wrap up an exhaustive, weeks-long instrument check on Th...
OSLO (Reuters) - A British plan to drill into a sunless lake deep under Antarctica's ice in December could show the risks...
By Ronnie CohenSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yosemite National Park doubled the scope of its hantavirus warning on Thursday to so...
(Reuters) - Organic produce and meat typically isn't any better for you than conventional food when it comes to vitamin a...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA's Curiosity rover is making global headlines as it travels uncharted territory on Mars, and ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical storm Isaac is expected to weaken further as it heads north on Thursday, after causing signi...
Actor Scott Wilson, a star in the hit television series "The Walking Dead," has been charged with driving under the...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yosemite National Park is warning 1,700 people that they may have been exposed to a potentially dea...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Hurricane Isaac lashed southern Louisiana with high winds and heavy rains on Wednesday and was set fo...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened into a hurricane just off the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday as it chur...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac had nearly reached hurricane strength as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Monday showed off the first high-resolution, color portrait images taken by the M...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac swirled into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, threatening to disrupt U.S. offshore oil an...
DALLAS (Reuters) - The number of West Nile virus infections in the United States has jumped more than 60 percent in the past ...
(Reuters) - Americans throw away nearly half their food every year, waste worth roughly $165 billion annually, according ...
OSLO (Reuters) - A floating robot has been deployed to track great white sharks in the Pacific as part of efforts to understa...
PASADENA, Ca. (Reuters) - This week's arrival of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity set the stage for a potentially game-cha...
ROME/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global alarm over a potential repeat of the 2008 food crisis escalated after data showed food prices...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reggae immortal Bob Marley has joined Barack Obama and Elvis Presley in the elite club of those who ha...
This adorable baby himalayan kitten just can't stay awake!
Watch two drivers set a Guinness World Record by racing two cars through a six-story double vertical loop at the 2012 X Games...
(Reuters) - More than 1.4 million people from Illinois to Virginia remained without power Tuesday morning after the weekend&#...
LONDON (Reuters) - Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower...
See what happens when a garbage box full of food waste is thrown into a volcano.
When a bear cub gets stuck in someone's garage it's Momma Bear to the rescue!
It's been hot this summer so these puppies are trying their best to stay cool.
ROME (Reuters) - Salvage crews began preliminary work this week on preparations to refloat the half-submerged Costa Concordia...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - One hundred celebrities backed a Greenpeace campaign against oil drilling and unsustainable fishin...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A remote Aleutian volcano that has been restless for the past year rumbled to life on Tuesday, ...
By Kate KellandLONDON (Reuters) - Diesel engine fumes can cause lung cancer and belong in the same potentially deadly categor...
You've seen dogs 'play dead,' but have you ever seen a hamster fall over after getting 'shot'?
Sophia Grace and Rosie are back, and this time they're giving us an exclusive lookat the new "Cars Land" in Dis...
Ellen's dance dares have swept the globe! You need to see these impressive moves from fans across the planet.
By Reza MunawirBANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - An 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia on Wednesday, sending resid...
Have you heard of Earth Hour? It's aglobal initiative to reduce energy consumption by turning off the lights for one full...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A major earthquake struck Mexico on Tuesday, unleashing panic as it damaged hundreds of buildings and...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Part of the National Mall near the Washington Monument may be sinking at a faster rate than expected, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A first round of tests showed no evidence that water at 11 homes in a small town in Pennsylvania near ...
A NASA scientist in the International Space Station explains the physics behind angry birds and gives us a sneak peak at the ...
(Reuters) - "Titanic" film director James Cameron on Thursday unveiled plans to pilot a specially designed submarin...
Mercedes-Benz creates an "invisible" car to promote the company's new"invisible" environmental impact...
(Reuters) - The biggest lobster ever caught in Maine, a 27-pounder (12.25 kg) nicknamed "Rocky" with claws tough en...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Powerful storms that spawned tornadoes ripped through the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, killing...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Avatar is moving in next door to the Hobbit.Successful U.S. film director James Cameron has snapped up...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The strongest geomagnetic storm in more than six years was forecast to hit Earth's magnetic field ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, co...
LONDON (Reuters) - High levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere mean the next ice age is unlikely to begin for a...
CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - Unusually mild winter weather is spoiling the fun for hockey players, skaters and ice fisherman acro...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A remote volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands erupted violently early on Thursday, spouting an ...
LONDON (Reuters) - At the start of the 20th century, inventors Thomas Alva Edison and Nikola Tesla clashed in the "war o...
MOFFET FIELD, California (Reuters) - The most Earth-like planet ever discovered is circling a star 600 light years away, a ke...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration proposed on Wednesday doubling auto fuel efficiency to 54.5 miles per gallon ...
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) - Three astronauts blasted off on Monday to return a full crew to the International Space Station ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A black asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zoomed past Earth on Tuesday, delighting a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters opposed to a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States circled the Whi...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of homes remained in the dark on Sunday a week after a historic snowstorm paralyzed the ...
CONWAY, Mass (Reuters) - About 1 million people remained without power in the Northeast on Wednesday after an uncommonly robu...
MERIDEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Cold, tired and frustrated, residents of more than 1.6 million homes in the Northeast remain...
BAGHPAT, India (Reuters) - The world's 7 billionth person will be born into a population more aware than ever of the challeng...
ERCIS, Turkey (Reuters) - Rescuers clawed through rubble on Monday to free people trapped by an earthquake that killed at lea...
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The escape of more than 50 exotic animals – and the killing of nearly all of them by sheriff&rsq...
TOKYO (Reuters) - It's not quite a yellow submarine, since it's destined for travel on top of the water, not under it.But the...
DALLAS (Reuters) - A large fire at a chemical plant south of Dallas that sent an enormous plume of smoke into the air on Mond...
JOPLIN, Mo (Reuters) - Four months ago, a tornado swept Rick and Jolene Huffman out of their house and dumped them unconsciou...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A six-ton NASA science satellite crashed to Earth on Saturday, leaving a mystery about wh...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her campaigns to save Kenyan fo...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A defunct NASA satellite the size of a bus that is expected to fall to Earth on Friday wi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. offshore drilling regulator could issue sanctions as early as next week against BP and the ma...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Rising seas forecast from climate change will likely wash away some of California's most iconic bea...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The results of a pivotal federal U.S. probe of last year's massive BP oil spill could be released as e...
LONDON (Reuters) - Former Vice President Al Gore will renew his 30-year campaign to convince skeptics of the link between cli...
BASTROP, Texas (Reuters) - Firefighters gained ground for the first time on Wednesday against a deadly wildfire raging near A...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires.The first eight months of 20...
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Gulf Coast residents from Texas to Florida struggled with a third day of severe weather on Monday wit...
SAN ANTONIO/AUSTIN (Reuters) - Sixty separate wildfires, whipped by winds as Tropical Storm Lee passed, burned across parched...
MOBILE, Ala (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Lee spawned tornado sightings and alerts from the Louisiana Gulf Coast to the Florida ...
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - After testing New Orleans' flood defenses over the weekend, Tropical Storm Lee moved northeast on Mon...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas governor Rick Perry tried to sideline a state commissioner who opposed expanding the scope of...
OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - A wildfire burned for a third day in a wooded 18-square-mile area of Oklahoma's capital on Thursday...
LUDLOW, Vermont (Reuters) - Residents of several Northeast states approached the Labor Day holiday weekend mired in mud and s...
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Katia strengthened into a hurricane over the Atlantic on Wednesday, while another mass of th...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday she resented what she viewed as an attack...
PATERSON, N.J./BRATTLEBORO, Vermont (Reuters) - Floodwaters finally started to recede from areas of the U.S. northeast devast...
PATERSON, New Jersey (Reuters) - Emergency workers plucked dozens of residents from doorways and windows as Hurricane Irene's...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vermont and New Jersey struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane I...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City was slowly getting back to business as usual on Monday after Hurricane Irene but hundreds ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds fr...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene charged up the U.S. eastern seaboard on Saturday as a weakening but...
MOREHEAD CITY, North Carolina (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene howled ashore in North Carolina with heavy winds, rain and surf on ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers living in low-lying areas should think about moving out on Friday before Hurricane Irene hit...
WILMINGTON, North Carolina (Reuters) - The United States urged 55 million people on its East Coast on Friday to prepare for t...
NASSAU (Reuters) - The northeast seaboard, including the capital and financial center New York, rushed to prepare on Thursday...
NASSAU (Reuters) - Powerful Hurricane Irene battered the Bahamas on Wednesday on a track to the North Carolina coast that for...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The earthquake that shook much of the East Coast cracked one of the stones at the top of the Washingto...
VIENNA (Reuters) - A research center near Tripoli stocks uranium and other material that could be used to make a nuclear &quo...
NASSAU (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene looked set to become a major storm on Wednesday as it roared up from the Caribbean on a pa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A strong earthquake rattled the East Coast on Tuesday, sending tremors as far as Canada, damaging well...
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Hurricane Irene was expected to strengthen over the next few days and could hit the southeastern Un...
DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp and Ford Motor Co will work together to develop hybrid trucks and SUVs that will be rea...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A mysterious orange goo that collected on shorelines in an Alaska village is made up of fungal ...
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A billowing wall of dust engulfed downtown Phoenix on Thursday, cutting visibility to a few hundred yards...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A band of showers has offered some relief to parched areas from Kansas to Mississippi, but ...
SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - The historic Texas drought that has parched most of the state throughout the summer has caused $5...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will set up a new nuclear safety watchdog under the auspices of the Environment Ministry, it said on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Natural gas drillers should reveal all chemicals they use in the drilling technique called "frack...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday will finalize the first ever fuel efficiency and emissions standar...
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The Southeast and southern Plains broiled under more record-breaking heat on Monday while heavy rai...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Emily broke apart over the mountains of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursda...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A primordial collision of two moons that once orbited Earth explains why the present-day moon is a bi...
JUNO BEACH, Fla (Reuters) - A plucky sea turtle was released back into the wild off Florida's coast on Wednesday after months...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wild horses on the vast rangelands of Wyoming can continue to roam free, for now, after the U.S. gover...
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Rangers have taken the rare step of capturing and killing a grizzly bear deemed a threat to human s...
TOKYO (Reuters) - For some elderly survivors of Japan's March earthquake and tsunami, comfort comes in the form of a small wh...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is on a pace in 2011 to set a record for the cost of weather-related disasters and t...