Global warning: Melting ice threatens Arctic foxes

Some more wildlife animals are on the brink of extinction because of  global warming. "Polar bears may not be the only Arctic wildlife threatened by global warming. Scientists have discovered that Arctic foxes also struggle as the ice disappears because they rely on the...

The Big Questions: What is consciousness?

"The philosopher Derek Parfit put it starkly: we are not what we believe ourselves to be. Actions and experiences are interconnected but ownerless. A human life consists of a long series - or bundle - of enmeshed mental states rolling like tumbleweed down the days and years,...

Bus Crash in French Alps Kills 26

Religious pilgrims on their way to the Notre-Dame de la Salette were met with disaster when their bus plunged from a cliff in the French Alps. "Twenty-six Polish pilgrims died when their coach crashed off a mountain road at a notorious accident black spot in the French Alps...

Online maps may have killed James Kim - do you have a story to tell?

He swam among tech toys and complex new processes. As a technology journalist he had access to all the bells and whistles available. So here's a disturbing question that is being raised about the death of James Kim: did an online map he downloaded lead to his death?We'd like...

Deaths Of Illegal Immigrants Also Takes Toll On Border Coroners

Morgue expanded. Deaths of illegal migrants. Died from heat exposure. Migrants' dead bodies. 1,400 autopsies. Arizona-Mexico border. Pima County.

Woman Has Rare Case of Bubonic Plague

The Bubonic Plague, more commonly referred to as the "Black Death," ravaged Europe between the years 1347 and 1350. During this short period, 25 million people (one third of Europe's population at the time) were killed.  Thousands of people died each week and...

Was Hurricane Katrina the worst hurricane ever to hit the United States?

Hurricane Katrina was the most expensive. But not the greatest loss of life.