Tens of thousands of diplomats, activists, journalists, businesspeople, celebrities and assorted green hangers-on have descended on the Danish capital of Copenhagen for the U.N.'s annual climate-change summit starting on Monday. Officially, the meeting is known as the 15th Conference... (Continue reading)
An eastern quoll pictured in Cradle Mountain National Park in Tasmania, Australia Share In February 2009, Australia's Environment Minister Peter Garrett made a depressing announcement. The Christmas Island pipistrelle bat an inch-long winged creature no heavier than five... (Continue reading)
Clockwise from top left: Tempeh, soy milk, tofu and edamame Share If you are among the thousands of American women who have survived breast cancer, you probably find yourself thinking twice about everything you do what you eat,... (Continue reading)
Icebergs float out of the Jacobshavn Fjord into the Jacobshavn bay near Ilulissat, Greenland Share The controversy over e-mails stolen from global-warming researchers at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at Britain's University of East Anglia has become so divisive... (Continue reading)
Share The major U.N. summit on climate change opened Monday in Copenhagen, but the big environmental news was made across the Atlantic in Washington. ... (Continue reading)
(CNN) -- Psychological trauma isn't just mental -- it may leave a visible trace in a child's brain, scientists say. A new study published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology found that children with symptoms of post-traumatic stress had... (Continue reading)
Washington (CNN) -- The Senate on Tuesday rejected an amendment to tighten restrictions on federal funding for abortion in the sweeping health care bill it is debating. On a 54-45 vote, the chamber agreed to table the amendment, which... (Continue reading)
(Health.com) -- Women with breast cancer who eat more soy are less likely to die or have a recurrence of cancer than women who eat few or no soy products, according to a new study. In the past, physicians... (Continue reading)
New York (CNN) -- In the rare cases when the H1N1 virus kills, scientists have found, it penetrates deep into the lungs, creating widespread damage -- a pattern similar to what killed millions during previous flu pandemics in 1918... (Continue reading)
(CNN) -- Jordan Pittard, 14, remembers feeling anxious about his father being deployed with the U.S. Army in Iraq from 2006 to 2007. ... (Continue reading)