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A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.

If you're looking for a new job, but you're also a friend of the environment, there could be a perfect position for you in the tech sector. More than ever before, tech companies are committed to sustainability -- they're developing greener devices, increasing the life cycle of products and developing meaningful partnerships. …

The upcoming Rio summit on sustainable development must yield a new model to tackle the planet's economic, environmental and ethical crises, according to Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira.

SEVERODVINSK, Russia (Reuters) - When severe snowstorms prevented life-sustaining fuel supplies from reaching the frozen Alaskan town of Nome, U.S. officials turned to a Russian company for help. The relief mission through perilous, ice-choked seas was the first mid-winter fuel delivery to western Alaska, capping a year …

Mashable's Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

What’s in a name? More importantly, what’s in a username? A giant headache, that’s what — at least if your Twitter handle is @TomGreen.

House Republicans railed against the Obama Administration Wednesday during an investigative hearing on General Motors' Chevy Volt, after a probe conducted by the federal auto safety agency ruled that the electric cars' batteries are not prone to causing fires. "The Chevrolet Volt is safe to drive and it has been safe to …

The world has no chance of sealing an emissions cut deal unless companies lobby their governments for an accord, the UN climate chief told the global business elite in Davos on Thursday.

Coastlines, working patterns, and even the country's most famous meal are under threat from climate change, Britain said Thursday in its first-ever national assessment of the likely risks.

Mashable's Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

Mashable's Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

Global warming is hitting not just home, but garden. The color-coded map of planting zones often seen on the back of seed packets is being updated by the government, illustrating a hotter 21st century.

Your town's recycling program probably has info on how to send in old electronics. The trouble is, just sending your gadgets in for recycling not only doesn't earn you anything, it can sometimes cost you money. Worse, some recycling programs outsource to China, where kids breathe in toxic fumes and pick PCs apart with their …

Mashable's Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

Mashable's Davos coverage is presented by BMW i, a new concept dedicated to providing mobility solutions for the urban environment.

(Reuters) - The Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild in under 30 years unless immediate steps are taken to protect its rapidly diminishing habitat, environmental group WWF said on Tuesday. IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature, raised its listing of the Sumatran elephant subspecies from "endangered" …

There is a lot that goes into making a house green, and we don’t mean just slapping a coat of paint on it. Building an energy efficient home is hard enough, let alone maintaining a home that doesn’t harm the environment by wasting resources and over consuming energy. Little things like switching off the lights and adjusting …

BOSTON (Reuters) - Software maker VMware Inc reported profit ahead of Wall Street expectations and released an outlook ahead of some forecasts, raising hopes that technology spending will grow this year, even as some warn that the economic outlook is grim. The results surprised some investors who were concerned that VMware …

LONDON (Reuters) - A weaker sun over the next 90 years is not likely to significantly delay a rise in global temperature caused by greenhouse gases, a report said Monday. The study, by Britain's Meteorological Office and the university of Reading, found that the Sun's output would decrease up until 2100 but this would only …

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp has developed a way to make hybrid and electric vehicles without the use of expensive rare earth metals, in which China has a near-monopoly, Japan's Kyodo News reported. Toyota, the world's top producer of fuel-saving hybrid cars such as the Prius, could bring the technology to market …

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The U.S. military's "Phoenix" project aims to recycle spare parts from old satellites to create new Frankenstein spacecraft in orbit, but it needs faster telescope imaging to find satellites suitable for cannibalization. Now it has called for a swarm of mobile ground telescopes capable of spotting possible space targets …

Scientists have discovered a new flowering plant belonging to the scarce Medinilla group on Fiji's Kadavu island, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said on Friday.