If you’ve heard of the term “MSG,” you might have also heard of its common — but inaccurate — connotations.

The value of coral reef ecosystems can hardly be overstated and neither can the threats they face on a warming planet. Now there’s a new undersea imaging technology to help oceanographers and researchers understand what’s happening beneath the sea, because they’re able to more clearly see object color and structure. […]

Maria Evangeline Tenorio Sarmiento struggles to wade through ankle-deep mud and debris to reach her house that’s been inundated with thick sludge.

Source: Government of Canada Country: Canada, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo The new funding will be used to address the humanitarian needs of the country’s most vulnerable people affected by Ebola and strengthen its local health system. Backgrounder Republic of Congo In Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on January 14, […]

When it comes to climate change, air-conditioners are a mess, generating plenty of carbon through their use. But there is a new device that might just change that. An invention reported in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides a personal cooling experience that might not only have […]

Japan’s Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi has announced that will take paternity leave when his first child is born this month, an unusual step in a country where new fathers rarely take time off from work.