WASHINGTON | Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:32am EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Chesapeake Bay, North America's biggest estuary, is still ailing but making some progress as it struggles to recover from over-fishing and pollution, a partnership overseeing its revival

Apollo 11 crew's portrait session shows astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin in this July 1969 handout photo courtesy of NASA. Credit: Reuters/NASA/HandoutBy Irene KlotzCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Thu Jan 3, 2013 11:08pm EST

LONDON | Thu Jan 31, 2013 6:40am EST LONDON (Reuters) - Environmental campaigners ClientEarth and BirdLife International are taking legal action against the European Commission over its failure to publish a review of greenhouse gas emissions from biomass.The

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Thu Jan 10, 2013 4:12pm EST CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Like many people, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield confesses that he's sometimes clumsy in the morning just after waking up.The three-time astronaut, now living

CONWAY, Massachusetts | Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:44pm EST CONWAY, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Rain and high winds lashed U.S. Northeast and mid-Atlantic states early on Thursday, knocking out power to more than 330,000 homes and businesses as they braced for

Dr. James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, became the first human to receive the data encompassing his personal genome sequence at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in this May 31, 2007 file photo. Credit:

Thu Jan 31, 2013 1:19pm EST n">(Reuters) - The unrelenting drought gripping key farming states in the U.S. Plains shows no signs of abating, and it will take a deluge of snow or rain to restore critical moisture to farmland before spring planting

A dead wild pine tree is seen behind a pile of eucalyptus logs in Arganil, central Portugal April 28, 2008. Credit: Reuters/Jose Manuel RibeiroOSLO | Mon Jan 7, 2013 4:35am EST OSLO (Reuters) - Green schemes to fight climate change by producing more

A truckload of corn is dumped into a chute at the Lincolnway Energy plant in the town of Nevada, Iowa, December 6, 2007. Credit: Reuters/Jason ReedWASHINGTON | Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:09pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Corn ethanol would get a larger share

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Mon Jan 7, 2013 5:06pm EST CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Kepler space telescope has uncovered another 461 potential new planets, most of which are the size of Earth or a few times larger, scientists said on Monday.The

1 of 20. Paramedics wheel an injured person to a helicopter at the parking lot of the state-run oil company Pemex after an explosion in Mexico City January 31, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Tomas BravoMEXICO CITY | Fri Feb 1, 2013 5:50am EST MEXICO CITY (Reuters)

1 of 2. A giant squid is seen in this still image taken from video captured from a submersible by a Japanese-led team of scientists near Ogasawara islands taken in July 2012, in this handout picture released by NHK/NEP/Discovery Channel in Tokyo January