Bipolar disorder is characterized by extreme mood swings, bouts of mania or hypomania, and episodes of depression. It is a ...

LONDON (AP) — Iceland’s president on Sunday accepted the resignation of the North Atlantic island nation’s children’s ...

Is our little blue marble of a planet actually a lot more crowded than we thought? A new study suggests we've been ...

The world’s population is currently around 8.2 billion. Wait, is it actually? A new study suggests that governments, ...

In this Journal Club, Minoli Perera reflects on a 2005 sequencing study by Cohen et al., who discovered two common loss-of-function mutations with large effects on plasma cholesterol levels thanks ...

A ntarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

Far beyond ice, Greenland is a key piece in world geopolitics, combining mineral wealth and military presence in the United ...

Data from more than 40,000 air quality monitoring stations in 138 countries, territories and regions were analyzed for the ...

BENGALURU, India (AP) — Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found. Switzerland-based air quality monitoring ...

Greenland covers an area about three times the size of Texas and is home to 56,000 people, mostly Greenlandic Inuits.

More: Distorted maps have misled you: Greenland isn't as big as you think. But Greenland’s population of roughly 56,000 is a small fraction of the Scandinavian country. For context, the least ...

The nearby Svartsengi geothermal plant, which supplies power and water to 30,000 people —about a tenth of Iceland’s population— sits dangerously close to the action. If the eruptions continue, ...