Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Jamestown settlement in Virginia, which officially was started on May 14, 1607, was one of the first European colonies to last ...

The number of bee colonies in Central Europe has decreased over recent decades. In fact, the number of beekeepers has been declining in the whole of Europe since 1985. The number of bee colonies in ...

Science and politics don’t mix well. In the United States, we’re witnessing rancorous policy debates over shale gas extraction (i.e. fracking) and GMOs in our foods. But in Europe, the hottest issue ...

The experience of Holland presents a series of facts of the highest significance in relation to tropical colonization, and the history of the Dutch colonies furnishes us with material for the ...

Colonialism has gotten a bad name in recent decades. Anti-colonialism was one of the dominant political currents of the 20th century, as dozens of European colonies in Asia and Africa became free.

European settlement during the colonial era had a positive effect on today's per capita income, a study by William Easterly, a professor in NYU's Department of Economics, and Ross Levine, a professor ...

Last year was a turning point for the global economy. According to the International Monetary Fund, in 2013, emerging economies made up a higher proportion of the world’s collective GDP (adjusted for ...