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Cambodia’s former Prime Minister Hun Sen asked Myanmar‘s ruling general on Tuesday to allow him to speak to detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on a video call, a request he said the junta chief would consider. Suu Kyi, the figurehead of Myanmar‘s struggle…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A teenage girl who had been kidnapped by her father was following a sheriff’s deputy’s instructions and appeared to be surrendering when other deputies fatally shot her during a gun battle on a Southern California highway, according to recently released video and audio. Savannah Graziano, 15, was shot and killed as she…
If the Easter bunny still needs to fill baskets, they should act quickly. Many stores will be closed for the holiday. Easter is a holiday in the Christian faith, and also an event for dyed eggs and chocolate bunnies left by a hard-to-find rabbit. The date Easter is celebrated is determined by a calendar calculation involving the moon. This…
Learn what are the elements identified by science that make a catchy tune.
Air chemists measuring the ozone depletion have found that 2011’s hole is the largest one ever, due to an unusually long cold spell. Whenever we usually think about the ozone layer, the thought drifts to Antarctica, but the latest data suggests that the Arctic could be experiencing a severe depletion in the ultraviolet-blocking chemical too. […]
Increased heat emissions by a volcano located in the Aleutian were detected via satellite by the Alaska Volcano Observatory, which has issued an eruption advisory alert. Recent activity has increased the volcano to a Yellow Alert. Mt. Cleveland, 5,676 ft. AGL, also referred to as Cleveland volcano is emitting seismic activity that seems to correlate with the […]
Japan shows us yet again that they are leading the world in terms of renewable energy, in taking a plan that would make solar panels mandatory for all buildings no later than 2030. The plan, expected to be unveiled at the upcoming G8 Summit in France, aims to show Japan’s resolve to encourage technological innovation […]
A while ago, I wrote about Severn Suzuki (video here), a woman who at the age of 12 held a speech at the UN Earth Summit in 1992 that got a standing ovation from the members. As the years passed, she became an active environmentalist, wrote a few books, and even had her own TV […]
Global warming has lowered the global yield of crops with up to 5% since 1980; not for soybeans, or tomatoes, or etc, but for wheat and corn – which are probably the most important crops. A global problem The study, which was published in the journal Science, states that the corn production has gone up […]
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