State Sen. Ann Rivers thinks Bigfoot should be on the Washington state license plates and could even help save state parks.

The Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River will at long last sleep with the fishes, thanks to the largest expansion of artificial reefs in N.Y. history.

The fabled highway's inclusion on the National Trust for Historic Preservation's annual most endangered list might come as a surprise .

Citroen's new Seetroen glasses promise to ease your motion sickness within 10 minutes.

The dramatic celestial event will be visible from all seven continents, and it's a must-see for skywatchers; Venus won't trek across the solar disk again for 10

Photographing the historic Venus transit of the sun is special enough on its own, but one space photographer managed to get NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in the

A new study has found structural brain differences that may account for callous-unemotional traits in boys.

Many school districts are reexamining ''no nit' policies that keep healthy kids out of the classroom.

One study that looked at kids' sleep and behavior patterns might have missed the bigger picture. Another study looks at academic performance.

American Academy of Pediatrics warns heat from dishwasher can cause toxins to leach into food.

The holidays have plenty of hustle and bustle, and it can overwhelm children on the autism spectrum. Sensitive Santas can help bring seasonal joy.

Scientists can only guess at how they have avoided extinction for so long.

Treating the country's 110 million STDs comes with a price tag of $16.7 billion a year.

Cohabitating doesn't provide the same health benefits for gay couples that marriage does for straights.

On March 21, the American Academy of Pediatrics announced its support for gay marriage, as well as foster care and adoption rights for same-sex couples.

But rolling in the hay resumes as doctors treat her allergy to semen.

New research concludes that hypersexuality is not a neurological or physiological disorder, but just heightened libido.

More than two-thirds of healthy Americans have a human papillomavirus (HPV) infection on some part of their body

A newly discovered mechanism in the throats of mice works like a supersonic jet engine.

Video shows a motorcyclist in Belgium stopping to rescue a kitten from the road.

Bei Bei the panda is leaving the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington, D.C., and heading to China after 4 years.

Former oilman T. Boone Pickens talks about the need to get off foreign oil and the recent spill in the Gulf Coast.

Nature photographer Florian Schulz says the oil spill in the Gulf must serve as a warning as the U.S. seeks oil in the Arctic.

While the the big NGOs appear to be asleep at the wheel, thousands of Americans will gather on June 26 to make a bold statement to Big Oil execs: 'Stay off our

The oil spill drives home the consequences of our addiction.

Greenpeace ship blocked en route to protesting new oil find off the coast of Greenland.

Are gas prices making you want to pull your hair out? CNN's Ali Velshi explains why we're to blame for high gas prices.

No, a state senator cannot single-handedly take down Big Oil. That only happens in Frank Capra movies. In real life, the petroleum giants always get their way.

The Republican presidential candidate from Minnesota thinks she has the magic touch for lowering prices at the pump.

There's a lot to sort out in Libya's post-Gadhafi era, but there should be good news for the American consumer.

The cartoonist responsible for beloved webcomic xkcd is also an ace infographic designer. His "Money Chart" is the definitive portrait of a cash-strapped, cash-

Thanks to our oil addiction, such a world would include rolling blackouts, minimal transportation, dwindling food supplies and possibly war.

Schools don’t have to discard textbooks with the old food pyramid in them. They can supplement what they have with free material about MyPlate from the USDA.

The MyPlate icon is starting to pop on food packaging. What are the USDA’s rules for companies that want to use it, and does its appearance on a package imply

America does not grow enough fruits and vegetables to satisfy USDA recommendations for all citizens. This infograhic makes the argument easy to understand.

The winner of the Apps for Healthy Kids contest sponsored by Let’s Move allows kids build a healthy meal from ingredients online, and they can send those meal

In a recently released video, the first lady talks up the healthy new choices that kids will see in their school lunches this year

The USDA wants to set nutritional standards for snacks sold in vending machines, "a la carte" lunch lines and school stores.

A new report released by EWG details just how widespread the use of antibiotics in animals is and the disturbing problems it's causing for humans.

The melt-off from the world's ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers over eight years of the past decade would have been enough to cover the United States in about 1

It may take less of an increase in global temperatures to melt the ice sheet covering Greenland than thought, new research suggests.

As the Arctic warms, meltwater lakes on the Greenland ice sheet are draining to sea more frequently — potentially lubricating the slide of the ice sheet into

As the old ice of Earth melts, photographers have captured its decline. Here are eight stunning before-and-after images detailing ice melts across our planet.

On Aug. 8, the Greenland ice sheet shattered a seasonal record, with more cumulative melting since record-keeping began more than three decades ago, new researc

Pine Island Glacier holds back part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet, whose thinning ice is contributing to sea level rise.

A new report from Climate Central finds that most of the overflow was caused by coastal flooding, which was made worse by rising sea levels.

NASA's new map combined radar, sound waves and electromagnetic instruments to peer beneath Antarctica's ice.

Georgia’s coast is currently protected from hurricanes by a series of barrier islands, but their value is decreasing as sea levels rise.

This winter, the Arctic ice cap expanded to a total of 5.76 million square miles — one of the lowest areas on record since 1979.

If a small chunk of ice currently plugging the edge of an ice sheet in Antarctica were to melt, it could release massive amounts of ice into the ocean.