Japan's renewable energy revolution is gathering pace, with one company recently initiating plans to cover some of the country's old abandoned golf courses with solar panels.
City officials in Los Angeles have said they don't have enough water to irrigate all the trees in the city, so they are cutting down roughly 14,000 of those that are dead or dying from drought.
The United Nations commended the world’s progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in a Monday report, saying that dire poverty across the world had dropped sharply.
The structure of another human antibody against the dengue virus has been determined, spurring the development of vaccines against the mosquito-borne disease that infects almost 400 million people
Germany’s all-time heat record was shattered Sunday when temperatures climbed to 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the hottest day in Germany since recordkeeping began in 1881, BNO News reported.
Solar Impulse 2, which is attempting to fly between Japan and Hawaii powered only by the sun's energy, has broken a world record for the longest non-stop solo flight.