"Promiscuous" bees and vanishing insects mean less food for us.

The foods that make our meals more colorful and delicious – coffee, watermelon, almonds, to name a few – depend on pollinators like bees. But two reports published in Science last week show how wild pollinating insects such as bumblebees, butterflies, and beetles are...

Nuclear power capacity grew again in 2012: Report.

The world’s nuclear power generation capacity grew again in 2012 after a drop in 2011 in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, according to a draft new United Nations atomic agency report seen by AFP Tuesday.

Nightmare bacteria, shrugging off antibiotics, on rise in US.

"Nightmare bacteria" that have become increasingly resistant to even the strongest antibiotics infected patients in 3.9 percent of all U.S. hospitals in the first half of 2012, including 17.8 percent of specialty hospitals, public health officials said on...

EDITORIAL: Great Lakes need federal funding

The annual Great Lakes Day event in Washington, D.C. comes amid the sequester, which has cut domestic and military spending. But the fight about the federal budget also should remind legislators that cleaning up the Great Lakes has bipartisan support.

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