Bags of chemicals lie near pools of blue liquid. A mine in northern Myanmar leaches rare earths out of the soil in 2022. Mining the minerals this way can generate significant water pollution. Credit: ...

HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y.– A massive, endangered fin whale was caught on drone video swimming and feeding off the coast of Long Island, New York. Fin whales are the second-largest whale species on Earth, and ...

A rare waterfront property in Mastic Beach is offering buyers the chance to live directly on the water, not just next to it. The two-bedroom, one-bathroom floating home at 714 Riviera Drive has come ...

Closely spaced volcanic plumes, surrounded by clouds, stream from a growing underwater volcanic platform in this natural-color image captured by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9 on May ...

For years, scientists worked on an esoteric piece of technology that they hoped could help the U.S. break China’s grip on the global supply of rare earths, a type of mineral essential to making ...

DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (WKRG) — A Mobile man is recovering after becoming infected by an extremely rare bacteria he contracted from the warm Gulf waters. Joel Kotowske is finally back home after ...

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Biohub will open a fourth round of Rare As One funding this fall, targeting patient-led groups working in rare pulmonary and immune diseases, and rare cancers. The program ...

CHICAGO — When a massive 9.0-magnitude earthquake shook Japan on March 11, 2011, the ground also made a more lasting move. About 15 minutes after the event began at 2:46 p.m. local time, nearly the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The powerful earthquake that shook Japan in 2011 triggered a tsunami, pictured here breeching an embankment and flowing into the ...