Hurricane Odile delivered a punishing blow to the Mexican resort town of Cabo San Lucas, tearing away the fronts of luxury resorts and leveling ramshackle homes on Monday.

At least 150 major companies worldwide — including ExxonMobil, Google, Microsoft and 26 others in the United States — are already making business plans that assume they will be taxed on their carbo

Americans are getting fatter, and older.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Earthquake Information Center says a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit 43 miles northwest of Fairbanks on Saturday night.

Our atmosphere "contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source, decades after the compound was banned worldwide," reports a NASA study out this week.

LORTON, Va. – When Mary Smallenburg, 35, of Fort Belvoir, Va., opened a package from her mother to find cereal and ramen noodles, she burst into tears.

The first half of 2014 was by far the hottest in California in 120 years of record-keeping, and that heat is exacerbating one of the most devastating droughts in state history.

A strong earthquake shook much of eastern Mexico on Tuesday, but there were no reports of damage or injury.

Child poverty rates in the U.S.

The School Nutrition Association nearly doubled its lobbying spending this year as it has battled over new school lunch standards.