A BLEVE from LPG». The firefighters described the incident that led to the explosion at the Prenestino gas station in Rome ...

In a Swiss pine forest, the treetops are being sprayed with mist in a bid to discover the effect that drier or wetter air has ...

This anomaly, which has cooled even as surrounding waters have warmed, is now better understood thanks to new research led by ...

Transpiration is the evaporation of water from trees out and into the Earth's atmosphere. Leaf transpiration occurs through pores called stomata, and at a necessary "cost", displaces of much of ...

Nagpur: Faulty mechanical seals in pumps have become a leading cause of gas leaks in industrial equipment, said Atul Vaidya, ...

A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

A huge explosion at a petrol station in a Rome suburb on Friday injured nearly 30 people, two of them seriously, and rattled ...

Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records, and hit places they never have before. Decades of scientific research has ...

What I renamed “The Big Beastly Bill” passed the Senate yesterday. It signed into law dramatic cuts to our public health care ...

Think you need 8 cups of water a day? Or that coffee dehydrates you? Experts debunk the most common misconceptions about ...

If you live in a place with "hard" water or water with lots of chemicals, you can even use distilled water to protect your ...

As rising temperatures are creating more extreme heat events in regions all over the world, the term 'urban heat island' is ...