As part of our tour of Germany's <b>UNESCO World Heritage sites</b>, we look around one of the best areas for fossil spotting in the world - the Messel pit site.
A group of international energy companies plans to bore into enormous stores of untapped natural gas deposits across the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, according to a media report Wednesday.
One day after a massive sinkhole appeared underneath a town in Thuringia, officials in the neighbouring state of Saxony-Anhalt warned residents on Tuesday the region sees at least two such incidents per week.
A large sinkhole opened up overnight in the middle of residential area in Thuringia, sucking a nearby car and part of a garage into its depths and forcing authorities to evacuate residents, police said on Monday.
A judge in Canada's northern Nunavut province has blocked a series of joint German-Canadian Arctic experiments after Inuit residents said the tests would hurt marine life, government sources said Monday.
German scientists announced on Monday they believe they have discovered sunken islands in the Caribbean Ocean following a deep sea expedition in April.
The enormous boulder that fell on a Bavarian home and killed two in January has been linked to a cave in the cliff behind the home, a media report said on Wednesday.
Four days after a landslide pulled homes into a lake killing three people in Nachterstedt, the state of Saxony-Anhalt’s premier announced on Wednesday that all lakes made from former open-pit mines will be inspected.
An earthquake shook the southern German state of Baden-Württemberg early on Tuesday morning. While it may have been a rude awakening for some, authorities reported no injuries or major damage.
A German researcher has located nine ‘stinky’ pieces of the four-billion-year-old meteorite that broke through the atmosphere above Germany in January, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Monday.
