With groundwater pumping and the evaporation of heavy weights of water, Earth's crust rebounds. This movement affects the fault, causing earthquakes.

Covering some 500 million acres of ocean, the expanded marine sanctuary would be four times larger than California.

There's more to salmon sperm than making salmon babies, as researchers find it can also be used to help sort out toxic waste.

Outdoor Photographer of the Year honors the best images from 2018 that highlight landscapes, wildlife and nature.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is nothing if not outspoken. Here, in the second of three interview segments, he talks about prospects for the company's affordable Model S

Hertz starts EV car-sharing programs in New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. I take the vehicles for a spin — and witness a cameo from the Charmin bea

In addition to surreal garden installations, the Hampton Court Flower Show hosts talks and demonstrations focusing on environmental issues.

Let your hair down and party like it's 1899 in a converted Victorian sea fort off of the Isle of Wight.

The spices in your kitchen don't look the same way in the wild. They start as roots, bark, berries, flowers and seeds. This is what they look like.

Artist Day Schildkret creates morning altars out of flowers, bark and leaves every day.

Denny Dyke turns his walking meditations into intricate sand labyrinths on the beach in Oregon.

Ancient tree stumps set the tone at Neskowin Ghost Forest in Oregon.

BigPicture photo contest winners celebrate diversity of life while inspiring conservation.

It takes some work, depending on the amount of food you want to preserve, but the payoff is worth it. Organic farmer Dan Bodkin of Gill, Mass., shows you how to

The Aston Martin e-Cygnet will be available in 2013.

Kale has a wide array of health benefits. Here's how to add this superfood into your diet.

Artichokes have so much more potential than you might suspect.

You may know what not to eat to keep your heart healthy, but do you know what foods to add to your diet for a happy heart?

Yoga made a difference in physical health, flexibility and even pain levels.

Jonathan Globerson's Greenerator concept allows apartment dwellers to harvest their own wind and solar energy from the comfort of their own balconies. But would

Select Home Depot stores across 6 states are now selling the Skystream 3.7, a personal wind turbine that's quiet, compact and capable of producing up to 400 kWh

Alec Baldwin champions both renewable energy and the preservation of East Hampton, N.Y., with equal passion. So how will things play out now that the actor has

Faced with restaurant-clearing brawls, McDonalds is testing classical music on late-night patrons.

This parrot likes to move it while listening to 'I Like to Move It.'

Weary animals at elephant sanctuary in Thailand relax as volunteer plays classical piano music in the forest.

Earthquakes triggered by fluids injected deep underground, such as during the controversial practice of fracking, may be more common than previously thought, a

More evidence of global warming in Peru, as Huacan glacier collapses into lake.

Earthquake in Japan raises concerns about what could happen in the U.S.

In the end, delivery dates are unimportant — but they do show how connected we are.

In 2011, Japan was one of the most prepared countries in the world for a massive earthquake. Yet when a mega-quake hit Japan last March, sparking a huge tsunami

The magnitude 8.6 earthquake that struck in the Indian Ocean off the western coast of Sumatra today resurrected fears of a repeat of the 2004 Indian Ocean earth

The risk of a deadly tsunami ravaging the United States is now leading scientists to investigate hazards posed by giant earthquakes off the Alaskan coast.

The deadly earthquake and tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands today struck along a subduction zone.

Pluto looks especially welcoming in a new photo by NASA's approaching New Horizons probe.

Here are five things researchers can learn about Earth by studying the dwarf planet Pluto.

The oldest city in the Netherlands attracts first-time homeowners with flat-pack prefab abodes free of hidden costs or complications.

Check out this video of NYC's first prefab residential building coming to life over a 4-week span in Manhattan's Inwood section.

Thanksgiving feasts and Christmas treats will be here soon, but being proactive can help you win the battle of the bulge.

A Sitka spruce on Campbell Island may be the 'golden spike' that denotes the controversial beginning of the Anthropocene epoch.

A paper hypothesizes that some of our language skills evolved out of specific cave art features.

Triassic fossils found on lands that were previously part of Bears Ears National Monument could fall under 'multiple-use' management.

The archaeological site is located a mere 900 feet off Manasota Key in Florida.

The first animal to evolve on Earth was probably a sponge that existed around 640 million years ago.

The find confirms that America's earliest human inhabitants were here much sooner than previously thought.

A whole new kingdom will need to be created to classify Hemimastix kukwesjijk, the organisms found in a random dirt sample.

Researchers say the collision of a planetary body with Earth, some 4.4 billion years ago, seeded the elements of life and also led to the creation of our moon.

This supposed moon rock is actually an Earth rock. It was likely jettisoned from our planet ages ago, eventually crashing into the moon.

New research suggests it will take millions of years for extinct species to return to Earth.

A new study finds that earthworms cause soil to release more greenhouse gases.

This much CO2 hasn't filled the planet's atmosphere since the Pliocene Epoch 3 million years ago — long before modern humans existed.