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There are widely recognized gaps in what we know about nearly every species in the Chukchi Sea, including beluga whales.

Railing of the Titanic.

Mary Lyford and her children are down to one meal a day

Thailand has plans to spend more than $12 billion in flood mitigation measures to try to avoid a repeat of last year's devastating floods that killed hundreds of people and cost billions of dollars. The country is preparing ahead of the start of another monsoon season.

Two massive earthquakes rocked the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province Wednesday, triggering tsunami warnings that were lifted later, amid no reports of any serious damage hours after the temblors shook the Indian Ocean region as far away as India.

The Amazon region of South America, the largest tropical rainforest and river basin on Earth, is disappearing at a rate of around 800,000 hectares a year, but a new study finds one possible strategy for reversing this trend in ancient Amazonian farming methods.

Drought in the Sahel region makes farming and gardening very diffcult for the women of Yelimne, Mali.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday slammed the Sri Lankan government for raising doubts over the release of harmful radiations from Kudankulam nuclear power plant.

A team of U.S. experts is in Pakistan to assist in recovery operations, two days after an avalanche buried more than 135 Pakistani soldiers and civilians in what is known as the world's highest battlefield.

Pakistan continued its search Sunday for the 135 soldiers and civilians buried by a massive avalanche in mountainous Kashmir near the Indian border, as hopes of finding any survivors faded quickly.