Hot weather is once again beating down on the UK, with an official drought declared in regions including Yorkshire. Staff at ...

Men drinking from segregated water fountains in 1960. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images “This was not outright cruelty such as lynching or denial of voting rights,” she said.

Clever cockatoos vs. water fountains That’s why, even though Klump has studied innovations in these cockatoos for years, she took note when she saw a line of the birds waiting their turn on a ...

A handful of cockatoos in the Sydney suburbs have figured out how to use public drinking fountains, an innovation that more and more of the birds have adopted over the past few years. Klump et al ...

First, these parrots learned to open trash cans to forage for food. Now, they’ve taken it a step further – and have figured out how to turn on water fountains for a sip along with their meal.

The water at Milton's birth and along its path was around 87 degrees (30.5 degrees Celsius). That's almost 2 degrees (1 degree Celsius) warmer than normal and near record levels, both on the ...

The water fountain at the Schenley Oval hasn't been turned on, and it's not alone. The city has more than 200 water fountains, and KDKA-TV could not find a single working one.

Plan to get Pittsburgh's public water fountains working PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A heat wave is coming to Pittsburgh, and almost all of the city's 200 public water fountains have yet to be turned on.