Talk therapy may be a helpful supplemental treatment for people with depression who have not responded to medication, a new study from the United Kingdom suggests. Researchers found that people with depression who had not improved despite taking antidepressants were three times more likely to experience a reduction in their depression symptoms if talk therapy was added to their treatment regimen...

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Arctic Wildfire Soot Darkening Greenland Ice Sheet

The glittering, icy landscape of Greenland is being marred by soot that falls from the smoke plumes of Arctic wildfires, new satellite-based research shows. That soot darkens the surface of the ice and makes it absorb more sunlight, hastening its melt. Researchers caught what they say are the first direct images of wildfire smoke drifting over Greenland this past summer with NASA's Cloud-Aerosol...

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Why Fair Trade May Be Unfair to Shoppers

Holiday shoppers beware: Products labeled as being socially responsible are not always what they appear. In fact, often companies purposely mislead consumers about their products, one consumer expert says. Many companies recognize consumers’ increasing desire to by socially conscious products and are using it to their benefit, said Keith Brown, a sociologist at Saint Joseph's University. "Retailers...

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oday's Japan Earthquake Could Be 2011 Quake Aftershock

Was the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck today (Dec. 7) east of Sendai, Japan, in any way related to last year's enormous, 9.0 earthquake? It's too early to tell definitively, said U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) geophysicist Jessica Turner, but the quake did happen in the "aftershock zone" of the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake. This zone is an area on the ocean floor that the 2011 quake physically...

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