Thirteen-year-old Rose Matrie lives in a cracked house

The first-ever estimate of how fast frogs, toads and salamanders in the United States are disappearing from their habitats reveals they are vanishing at an alarming and rapid rate.

Certified sustainable segments of industries with the biggest environmental and social footprints -- agriculture, forestry and tourism -- have been growing for a decade.

There are quite a few things that might make the average high school senior think twice before applying to Reed College.

Quantrez Sawyer was a security officer in Detroit three years ago, but he wasn't earning enough to live outside his mother's house and support his three children.

An ambitious firm has revealed their plans for a new type of personal air transport vehicle that takes off and lands like a helicopter. Will the idea fly?

The deadly bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina in 1994 remains unsolved.

"Women are Japan's most underutilized resource."

A stocktake of UK nature suggests 60% of animal and plant species studied have declined in the past 50 years.

College officials are concerned and confused by new licensing terms from Adobe they fear will dramatically raise costs.