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The features of baby talk — softer tone, higher pitch, almost unintelligible vocabulary — are global. Researchers made over 1,500 recordings in urban, rural and Indigenous communities.

In a series for The New York Times, environmental reporter Justin Gillis has been exploring whether harsh weather events are connected to global warming or if they are simply the random violence nature visits upon us.

London is home to Europe's tallest building called The Shard. It sort of looks like a giant shard of glass. It stands out in the city which has a relatively low skyline.

Investigators are still working to piece together key details to determine the cause of the crash that killed 67 people.

A mile-deep mine in South Dakota was closed a decade ago. Now, it's been cleaned up and revamped as an underground science laboratory. Scientists hope the experiments thousands of feet underground will help prove the existence of dark matter.

The Anthropocene Working Group is proposing a small but deep lake outside of Toronto, Canada — Crawford Lake — to place a historic marker.

By Katie Knapp SchubertOmaha, NE – A Volunteer Coordination Center has been set up in Council Bluffs.Council Bluffs Fire Chief Alan Byers, who's leading…

By Katie Knapp SchubertOmaha, NE – A U.S. Coast Guard disaster assistance response team will spend two weeks in Omaha.Assistant Fire Chief Dan Stolinski,…

In one of Pakistan's oldest cities, Lahore, street signs are rare, and people constantly ask for directions. Two young entrepreneurs are hoping to change that with a project to make street signs commonplace.

Venice is reeling from historic floods. And the systems designed to prevent this kind of damage aren’t completed, and may not work anyway.