If the damages related to climate change mount in the coming decades, insurance companies may face the prospect of paying larger disaster claims and being dragged into global warming lawsuits. But many firms, especially in the U.S., have barely begun to confront the risks.

More public universities are charging higher tuition for math, science and business programs, which they argue cost more to teach.

UK GDP shrank 0.2% in the first three months of 2012, sending Britain into its first double-dip since the 1970s

Janine Benyus has shown time and again in her work on biomimicry that life creates conditions conducive to life. Here's how the business world could do that.

Hundreds of thousands of computers will simultaneously lose access to the internet on July 9, unless their owners check for a virus that may have remained hidden for several years

Just how long can Apple run the table in the post-Jobs era? It was simply a matter of time before those whispers turned into a question asked out loud.

In a move that could grow the market for cage-free eggs, Burger King is pledging to switch to 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2017. It also plans to eliminate gestation crates for breeding pigs.

Medical researchers at the University of Sheffield have defined the structure of a key part of the human obesity receptor- an essential factor in the regulation of body fat- which could help provide new treatments for the complications of obesity and anorexia.

The University of Aberdeen is considering establishing a chair in a form of alternative medicine described by one expert as "pure quackery".

Who could have guessed that the big debate on Roman Catholic campuses in 2012 would be over contraception?