Forget waiting around a mere few days for an iPhone. Two sisters are in the midst of an 11-day vigil for this summer’s hottest, ”must have” low-tech phenomenon: the latest Harry…

Japan said on Tuesday it was pushing ahead with its controversial plan to hunt humpback whales after key powers refused a compromise offer. Japan wants to kill 50 humpbacks this…

Japan offered a compromise on Monday to break an impasse over its controversial plan to lift a 20-year moratorium of commercial whale hunting, but it was flatly rejected by the…

Officials from 75 nations on Monday begin talks critical to whale conservation amid pressure — notably from Japan — to lift a 20-year ban on commercial hunting of the gentle…

The underwater sonar images of a black shape against a grainy, monochrome background are the biggest clues in more than 60 years to the fate of a United States submarine lost…

Oil company BP has indefinitely shut down the United State’s biggest oilfield after finding a pipeline leak, removing about 8% of US oil production and stoking fears that already…

Unbearable cold, stormy winds and never-ending darkness at the Arctic Circle: these are just a few of the clichés about the Alaskan winter. But aside from a few particularly…

Norman Vaughan, who as a young man explored Antarctica and spent much of his life seeking adventure, died on Friday just a few days after turning 100 years old. Vaughan died at…

An overweight elephant in the Anchorage zoo — the only of its species in the northernmost American state — will soon have her own personal training apparatus to help her shed…