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Supply shortages of oxygen for hospitals have plagued many countries, but the U.S. has averted the most dire — partly because the industry figured out new ways to share resources and anticipate needs.

Tourism in Oakland isn’t new. Hell, even in the 1800s, when colonizers settled in the Bay and built San Francisco into a world-class city, Oakland was the other coast—or “contra costa”—where wealthy folks would buy summer vacation homes to get away from the big city. Nearly 200 years later, tourism in Oakland is still a … Continue reading With AfroTech Coming to Oakland, How to Handle Tourism Responsibly? →

It may not be in your history books. But it ended with scores of sunken ships, hundreds of missing soldiers and Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere facing charges of cowardice and incompetence. What went so wrong on the New England coast back in 1779?

St. Petersburg and Tampa are preparing for what could be their first direct hit by a major hurricane in over a century. Officials there are urging people to comply with evacuation orders immediately.

The recent winter storm could have created another disaster: massive power outages. But luck and planning kept the electricity flowing — for the most part.

Parts of California were still under flash flood warnings Monday, with yet another deluge of rainfall set to arrive midweek.

Some are calling it "the trial of century." In New Orleans Monday, dozens of lawyers will pack into a federal courtroom to argue over BP's civil liability from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Millions of barrels of oil fouled beaches from Texas to Florida. Billions of dollars are at stake.

A massive wildfire on Catalina Island, off the coast of Los Angeles, has forced hundreds of people to evacuate. It now threatens the resort town of Avalon, as well as several threatened or endangered species, including a rare island fox that only recently has been making a comeback.

In recent months, several academic groups have claimed possible discoveries of materials that super-conduct at room temperature. Outside researchers, however, are skeptical.

North Korea said that it plans to launch a satellite, which may be an attempt to put its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit. It said the launch window is from May 31 to June 11.