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World 10/24/19, 01:20

NASA says the hole in the ozone is smallest since discovery in 1982

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Study: Ozone-killing chemicals traced to China
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Hammerhead shark ‘nursery’ found off Galapagos islands
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Monarch population up 144 pct at Mexico wintering grounds
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Hundreds of recent scientific studies contradict the ‘global warming’ theory

World 12/28/19, 18:09

In the last three years, more than 350 scientific articles have been published that refute the idea that our planet is suffering from a warming that is unusual in the modern era, caused by the ...

NASA says the hole in the ozone is smallest since discovery in 1982

World 10/24/19, 01:20

According to NASA, the hole in the ozone reached its smallest size since it was discovered by scientists in 1982 because of unusual weather patterns in the upper atmosphere above Antarctica. The hole fluctuates each year ...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental fund commits $5 Million to preserve Amazon rainforest

Inspired Stories 08/26/19, 20:10

Earth Alliance, a new environmental organization backed by actor Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged $5 million to help preserve the Amazon rainforest, which has been experiencing devastating wildfires this month. The organization is reportedly working with local ...

Selfie-taking fern records own growth using plant power

Europe 07/02/19, 18:47

Conservationists at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) are attempting to harness plant energy to oversee remote ecosystems. They are working on a project that could enable a plant “to take a selfie.” A maidenhair fern ...

Canada to ban single-use plastics by 2021

America 06/11/19, 13:45

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Monday, June 10, that Canada is planning to ban single-use plastics by 2021 in an attempt to curb plastic pollution. “I'm very happy to announce that as early as ...

Biodegradable plastic made from seaweed organisms

News 06/07/19, 15:19

From bags to bottles, every year about 13 million tons of plastic flows into our oceans, according to a U.N. report published in 2018. If the situation continues, our oceans could contain more plastic than ...

Brazil reduces top environment council, trims independents

Enviroment 05/30/19, 15:47

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is slashing the size of a body that oversees environmental policy, effectively reducing the role of non-governmental organizations.The decree issued Wednesday cuts the size of the National Council of the Environment ...

New Hampshire sues 3M, DuPont, other chemical companies

Enviroment 05/29/19, 21:57

New Hampshire has sued eight companies including 3M and the DuPont Co. for damage it says has been caused by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and drinking water.The ...

Michigan AG will move to shut pipeline in June if no deal

Enviroment 05/29/19, 20:40

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Wednesday she will move in June to shut a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the governor cannot reach a resolution with operator Enbridge, saying the state is in "great ...

Another plant sought to treat toxic water from former mine

Enviroment 05/29/19, 17:31

Atlantic Richfield wants to build a second treatment plant to lower the level of acidic, metal-laden water that has collected in a former mining pit in Butte that was closed more than 35 years ago, ...

Malaysia to send back plastic waste to foreign nations

Enviroment 05/28/19, 07:38

Malaysia will send back some 3,000 metric tons (3,300 tons) of non-recyclable plastic waste to countries such as the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia in a move to avoid becoming a dumping ground for rich ...

Monitoring group: Deforestation up 20% in Brazil’s Amazon

Enviroment 05/27/19, 20:58

A non-governmental group that has monitored the Amazon rainforest for two decades said Monday that the pace of deforestation increased 20% in the most recent nine months.Imazon said satellite imagery showed the region lost 2,169 ...

Cleanup resumes at former chemical plant site in Michigan

Enviroment 05/27/19, 15:06

Cleanup work has resumed at a former chemical plant in central Michigan that's become one of the country's costliest Superfund sites.An Environmental Protection Agency official, Thomas Alcamo, told MLive.com that it could still take another ...

Climate activists call for action in Latin America

Enviroment 05/24/19, 18:58

Climate change activists in Latin America rallied for action on global warming Friday, heeding a call by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to hold demonstrations across the world.In Rio de Janeiro, a small group of students ...

Home solar advocates push against proposed charge in Montana

Enviroment 05/23/19, 20:13

Renewable energy activists urged Montana regulators on Thursday to reject a utility's request to add a charge for homeowners who generate surplus electricity from their own solar panels.Over the past two decades, about 2,300 NorthWestern ...

England to ban plastic straws, stirrers, and cotton buds

Europe 05/23/19, 13:11

The UK government is taking steps to curb plastic pollution. Starting April 2020 plastic straws, cotton buds, and plastic stirrers, will only be provided under strict guidelines, for medical or scientific reasons. As part of the ...

Study: Ozone-killing chemicals traced to China

Enviroment 05/23/19, 02:39

Ozone is critical to life, limiting the amount of harmful ultraviolet solar radiation that reaches Earth's surface

Budget deals start coming together ahead of special session

Enviroment 05/22/19, 19:05

Deals were coming together Wednesday as Gov. Tim Walz and top legislative leaders prepared for a special session to finish work on the state's next two-year budget.The Democratic governor, GOP Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka ...

Australian state leader intervenes to approve coal mine

Enviroment 05/22/19, 06:01

An Australian state government leader intervened on Wednesday to fast-track a proposed coal mine days after voters rejected tougher action to curb greenhouse gas emissions in the country's general election.The Carmichael mine proposed by India's ...

Bella Vista warned of unsafe air near underground dump fire

Enviroment 05/21/19, 23:18

A property owner's association is warning residents about the unhealthy air near an underground fire that's been burning for 10 months at a former unlicensed dump in northwestern Arkansas.Crews began fighting the fire Saturday at ...

Homeland Security detects attacks on Firefox and asks users to update their browsers

Tech 01/11/20, 13:58

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) issued a statement on Jan. 8 urging Firefox users to update their browser for certain vulnerabilities in the system that have already been ...

US universities track students for ‘abnormalities’ in their behavior

U.S. 12/28/19, 20:11

Some universities in the United States use a complex tracking system for their students to capture their behavior changes, in a social engineering application. In addition, all universities use the SpotterEDU application that connects to students' ...

Driverless shuttle service debuts on university campus

Australia & Oceania 06/26/19, 18:30

A self-driving shuttle bus service has taken to the roads on a route around a university district in South Australia as a part of a five-year trial. South Australia is the one of the first to ...

Twitter deletes 4,800 accounts linked to foreign governments

U.S. 06/13/19, 14:33

Twitter says it has deleted nearly 4,800 suspect accounts linked to Iran that the company says secretly pushed that government's agenda. Twitter is adding those accounts and their tweets to a public database it launched last ...

Facebook’s Zuckerberg is the focus of latest doctored video

Tech 06/13/19, 01:30

Three weeks after Facebook refused to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words, Mark Zuckerberg is getting a taste of his own medicine: fake footage showing him gloating over his ...

US stocks move broadly higher, trimming some weekly losses

Tech 05/30/19, 14:16

U.S. stocks moved broadly higher in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday following two days of losses.The early gains are helping to cut some of the broader market's weekly losses, but it is still on ...

Mahathir urges US to talk with China, accept its greatness

Tech 05/30/19, 04:48

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is calling for talks to resolve ongoing trade dispute between Washington and Beijing and is urging the world to accept China's technological prowess.Mahathir says the U.S. cannot expect to always ...

Technology companies push stocks higher, extend gains

Tech 05/28/19, 14:29

U.S. stocks edged higher on Wall Street Tuesday, picking up where they left off before the long holiday weekend.Technology stocks led the early gains. Microsoft rose 1.3% and Cisco rose 1.8%. A mix of consumer-focused ...

AI phones, PCs edging into global consumer technology

Tech 05/28/19, 02:30

Exhibitors at Computex - Asia's largest tech show - are expected to show how ordinary devices can use artificial intelligence

East Tennessee clinic uses technology to fix ‘pigeon chest’

Tech 05/27/19, 14:12

In an exam room at East Tennessee Children's Hospital, all eyes were on 14-year-old Tinsley Allen as he became the first patient in Tennessee and one of the first in the nation to be fitted ...

Virtual reality offers glimpse of Rome’s circus maximus

Tech 05/27/19, 00:00

Circus Maximus Experience opened in Rome this week, offering visitors a chance to relive the famed arena's ancient splendors through augmented and virtual reality

California show explores Warhol’s social, tech foreshadowing

Tech 05/25/19, 15:02

Before Instagram and Facebook, before selfies and filters that perfect selfies, there was Andy Warhol, using his art to imbue friends, family, celebrities — even himself — with a certain mystique.A retrospective of Warhol's work ...

Origin Wireless Delivers Unique LifeLog-as-a-Service “LaaS” Well-Being Monitoring Solution for Elderly Care

Tech 05/24/19, 22:01

Greenbelt, MD, May 24, 2019 --( PR.com )-- Origin Wireless™ Inc. (Origin™ in short) today announced its unique wearable-free elderly care well-being monitoring solution “LifeLog-as-a-Service™” (LaaS™ in short) based on Origin's patented Time Reversal Machine™ ...

Ex-Facebook exec recommends Zuckerberg step down as CEO

Tech 05/24/19, 18:57

Facebook's former security chief is disagreeing with calls to break up the social network.Instead, Alex Stamos believes the way to fix problems is for Mark Zuckerberg to step aside as CEO. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and ...

Health care CEOs again lead the way in pay

Tech 05/24/19, 15:31

The highest pay packages go to CEOs at health care companies. For the third time in four years, chief executives in the health care field led the S&P 500 in terms of total compensation. The ...

CEOs get $800,000 pay raise, leaving workers further behind

Tech 05/24/19, 15:20

Did you get a 7% raise last year? Congratulations, yours was in line with what CEOs at the biggest companies got. But for chief executives, that 7% was roughly $800,000.Pay for CEOs at S&P 500 ...

NASA’s first-of-kind tests look to manage drone in cities

Tech 05/23/19, 18:44

NASA has launched the final stage of a four-year effort to develop a national traffic management system for drones, testing them in cities for the first time beyond the operator's line of sight.Multiple drones took ...

Senate passes bill meant to combat robocalls

Tech 05/23/19, 18:15

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that aims to combat the illegal robocalls torturing Americans .Though the measure wouldn't eliminate all unwanted calls, it would give regulators more tools to go after scammers. It ...

Amazon rejects facial recognition, climate change proposals

Tech 05/22/19, 21:14

Despite pressure from civil rights groups, activist investors and its own employees, Amazon said Wednesday that shareholders at an annual meeting in Seattle voted against proposals related to two major social issues: climate change and ...

Anti-groping smartphone app highly popular in Japan

Tech 05/22/19, 11:36

A smartphone app developed by Japanese police is being widely downloaded by women trying to protect themselves from gropers on packed rush-hour trains.The "Digi Police" app was originally issued by Tokyo police three years ago, ...

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NASA gives media a peek at Mars 2020 Rover’s progress

U.S. 12/28/19, 23:53

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), on Friday, Dec. 27, gave members of the press special access to the NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory “clean room.” This is the space where NASA Mars 2020 team members ...

Vice President Pence: ‘America is leading in space once again’

U.S. 08/20/19, 23:43

"America is leading in space once again,” said Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday, Aug. 20 at the sixth meeting of the National Space Council. Pence quoted President Donald J. Trump saying, “It is America's destiny ...

NASA picks Alamaba’s ‘Rocket City’ for lunar lander job

U.S. 08/17/19, 09:44

NASA picked Alabama's "Rocket City" on Friday, Aug. 16, to lead development of the next moon lander for astronauts. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville beat out Johnson Space Center in Houston, which managed the ...

US Senators consider challenges in NASA’s Artemis program

U.S. 07/18/19, 17:46

U.S. senators gathered on Wednesday, July 17, in Washington to consider obstacles, as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Chief Jim Bridenstine spelled out some of the challenges facing its Artemis moon program. Bridenstine started ...

US Vice President Pence unveils Armstrong’s restored spacesuit

U.S. 07/16/19, 21:53

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, on Tuesday, July 16, unveiled astronaut Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Armstrong’s spacesuit is back on display after 13 years ...

NASA says US will return to moon as stepping stone to Mars

U.S. 06/18/19, 21:09

As rivals such as China and Russia continue space exploration and development, including development of military capabilities in space, it has become imperative for the United States to stay ahead of the world. A significant ...

Astronomers spot ‘Forbidden’ planet in ‘Neptune Desert’

Space 05/31/19, 16:42

A group of international astronomers said they have spotted a “Forbidden” planet closely orbiting a star. The newly discovered world is three-times the size of Earth and 920 light-years away from our planet. This exoplanet was ...

Pentagon finally admits it investigates UFOs, report says

Space 05/22/19, 18:03

The U.S. Department of Defense has acknowledged that it is still investigating reports of unidentified aerial phenomena," also identified as UFOs. It doesn't imply the Pentagon acknowledged the presence of extraterrestrials, but a spokesman told the ...

New study says universe expanding faster and is younger

Space 04/26/19, 16:46

The universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it's about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says. And that's sending a shudder through the ...

The universe expands more quickly than we thought, and nobody knows why.

Space 04/26/19, 11:56

It's become clear that something doesn't add up in the cosmos. Every second, the universe grows larger. Actually, it expands much more quickly than it should. For some time now, observations of the early universe made ...

Israeli team assesses what went wrong with lunar landing

Space 04/12/19, 15:54

The team behind the Israeli spacecraft that crashed into the moon has released a preliminary technical assessment of what went wrong. SpaceIL, the start-up that sought to make history with the first privately funded lunar landing, ...

Black hole named ‘Powehi’ by Hawaii university professor

Space 04/12/19, 02:10

A language professor has given a Hawaiian name — Powehi — to the black hole depicted in an image produced in a landmark experiment. University of Hawaii-Hilo Hawaiian Professor Larry Kimura named the cosmic object, The ...

International scientific teams unveils first photo of black hole

Space 04/10/19, 14:24

A black hole swallows stars, planets, gas, dust and all forms of electromagnetic radiation

Spacewalking astronauts replace more station batteries

Space 03/29/19, 12:18

Spacewalking astronauts are conducting more battery work outside the International Space Station.NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch (Cook) floated outside Friday, a week after the first spacewalk to install new and stronger batteries for ...

NASA’s new rocket won’t be ready for moon shot next year

Space 03/13/19, 17:32

NASA's massive new rocket won't be ready for a moon shot next year, the space agency's top official told Congress on Wednesday.Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he's considering switching to commercial rockets to keep the June ...

NASA to make untouched lunar samples available for study

Space 03/12/19, 23:55

The lunar samples were collected by astronauts during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions

Spacex crew capsule leaves international space station

Space 03/08/19, 10:43

The unmanned Dragon capsule is to splash down in the Atlantic Ocean later Friday

NASA schedules its first all-female spacewalk

Space 03/07/19, 02:45

Anne McClain and Christina Koch will be supported by Kristen Facciol on the ground

US-built capsule with a dummy aboard docks at space station

Space 03/03/19, 20:17

A sleek new American-built capsule with just a test dummy aboard docked smoothly with the International Space Station on Sunday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to getting back in the business of launching ...