Africa Is Drying Up, and It’s Tearing the Continent in Two—Literally

With less water in the lakes, especially Lake Turkana, it has become easier for the great rift beneath to move.

The Stewards of Chernobyl Are Passing Mutations Down to Their Children

The DNA of Chernobyl cleanup workers and others exposed to high doses of radiation showed mutations that were also evident in ...

Something Strange Is Living—and Thriving—Below Fukushima’s Dead Reactors

Ionizing radiation apparently didn’t prevent some types of bacteria from breeding in the water, but astonishingly, they are ...