World Economic Forum Russia’s permafrost is melting and it could have a devastating global effectweforum.org - Emma Charlton An environmental vicious circle is taking hold in Russia and other parts of the Arctic as permafrost – the frozen ground beneath a quarter of the …
Marshall Islands Radiation Levels at the Marshall Islands Remain Disturbingly HighGizmodo - George Dvorsky An analysis of soil samples, ocean sediment, and fruits from the Marshall Islands—the site of nearly 70 nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and …
Jellyfish Rare Human-Sized Giant Jellyfish Caught On Camera - VICEVICE - Madeleine GregoryJust off the coast of Cornwall in the UK, two divers ran into a giant barrel jellyfish that was as big as they were. Underwater cinematographer Dan Abbott captured the jellyfish on camera, swimming beside
Game of Thrones Humans May Be Accidentally Geoengineering the Oceansscientificamerican.com - Chelsea Harvey, E&E News As the saying goes, what goes up must come down—and, as it turns out, a lot of what goes up comes down into the world’s oceans. Iron particles, …
Play buttonAliens 5 Scientific Reasons for Believing in AliensPopular Mechanics - By Daisy HernandezWe can't be the only ones in the vast expanse of the cosmos ... right? Are aliens real? We don't know for sure, but we want to believe. Outer space is a vast expanse that we have so much more to learn
West Bank Israel is the terrorist - Opinion - Israel News |haaretz.com About a week ago, on the highway between Hermesh and Mevo Dotan, two soldiers were killed and two were injured by a car that was driven by a resident …
Bashar al-Assad Assad Or We Burn the Country by Sam Dagher review – scoop-filled history of Syria’s downfallThe Guardian - Ian BlackIn the summer of 2012, news broke that Manaf Tlass, a general in Syria’s elite Republican Guard and a confidante of Bashar al-Assad, had defected and was en route to exile in France. Tlass was not just
News Papua New Guinea massacre of 30 women and children is 'worst payback killing' in country's historyThe Guardian - Luke Henriques-GomesThe brutal deaths of about 30 women and children in Papua New Guinea’s highlands amount to the “worst payback killing” in the country’s history, the police minister has said. Bryan Kramer made the declaration
Hillary Clinton Trump Is a Racist. If You Still Support Him, So Are You.The Daily Beast - Goldie Taylor The president is a racist, in his words and his actions. Before you go clutching your pearls and extolling the virtues of “civility,” let me say this: …
Glyphosate Corporations can legally put carcinogens in our food without warning labels. Here's whySalon - Matthew RozsaA recent study by the Environmental Working Group revealed something horrifying: Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the popular weedkiller Roundup, was present in 17 of the 21 oat-based cereal and snack
Technology Stealthy TrickBot Malware Has Compromised 250 Million Email Accounts And Is Still Going StrongForbes - Lee MathewsDeepInstinct refers to as TrickBooster. Its job: to send spam emails from infected computers in order to increase the spread of TrickBot infections. At its core, TrickBot is a banking Trojan. The malware
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoDeforestation Countries doing the most (and least) to protect the environmentUSA TODAY Money - Elzy Kolb and Samuel StebbinsNo other issue other than climate change is a truly global concern. Global temperatures are projected to rise between 2.5-10 degrees Fahrenheit over the next century, according to the Intergovernmental
Play buttonAlbert Einstein The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest DiscoveriesWIRED - K. C. Cole The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein’s century-old insights are by now deeply embedded in the popular imagination: Black holes, time warps and …
Russia Analysis In Missile Deal With Russia, Turkey Shows There’s No Need to Fear the United Stateshaaretz.com - Zvi Bar'el On Friday, the Pentagon postponed until further notice and with no further explanation a press briefing on the arrival of the first shipment of …
The Arctic Unprecedented fires burn the ArcticMashable - Mark KaufmanSmoke is rising over the forests of Alaska and Siberia. The World Meteorological Organization called the wildfires now burning around the Arctic "unprecedented." The United Nations agency noted that over
Live Aid Queen’s Live Aid Performance: How Rock’s Royalty Stole The Showudiscovermusic.com - Ian McCann The old Wembley Stadium was the setting, on 13 July 1985, for one of the greatest live concerts ever staged: Live Aid. Sting, U2, Dire Straits, The Who, …
Turkey What Is the S-400? The Russian Missile System in Turkey That Irks the PentagonThe New York Times - By BENJAMIN MUELLER and THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFFThe first parts of a sophisticated, Russian-supplied surface-to-air missile system, known as the S-400, arrived in Turkey on Friday. It was a moment American officials had been anticipating for months.
Science When Ancient DNA Gets Politicizedsmithsonianmag.com - Megan Gannon With a string of three tweets, ten ancient skeletons became geopolitical pawns. Last weekend, Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, or whoever …
Gibraltar Britain sends second warship to gulf amid tensions with Iran: SkyReuters - by Michael HoldenLONDON (Reuters) - Britain is sending a second warship to the Gulf amid growing tensions with Iran after Royal Marines seized an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar last week, Sky News reported.
News Sudan's military leaders accused of ordering massacreThe Guardian - Ruth Maclean West Africa correspondentThe massacre of peaceful protesters in Sudan last month was ordered by the country’s top military rulers, according to an investigation by BBC Africa Eye. The documentary Sudan’s Livestream Massacre, analysed
Aging There are now more people over age 65 than under five—what that meansNational Geographic - Kelsey NowakowskiPeople are living longer and having fewer kids, presenting new challenges and opportunities. For almost all of human history, the Earth’s population has skewed younger. But since the last World Population
Data Visualization The World’s 2-Billion-Ton Trash Problem Just Got More AlarmingBloomberg - Ann Koh The stench of curdled milk wafted from a shipping container of waste at Malaysia’s Port Klang as Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin told a group of …
News Iranian boats attempted to seize a British tanker in the Strait of HormuzCNN - By Barbara Starr, Ryan Browne(CNN) — Armed Iranian boats unsuccessfully tried to seize a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf Wednesday, according to two US officials with direct knowledge of the incident. The British Heritage was
Science Enigmatic skull may be the oldest modern human outside Africa. But questions abound.National Geographic - Maya Wei-HaasA controversial study argues that early Homo sapiens were in Greece by 210,000 years ago, sparking intense debate. Along the rugged coastline of southern Greece, our ancient human relatives may have sojourned
Apollo Missions One giant ... lie? Why so many people still think the moon landings were fakedThe Guardian - Richard GodwinIt took 400,000 Nasa employees and contractors to put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969 – but only one man to spread the idea that it was all a hoax. His name was Bill Kaysing. It began
U.S. Politics Touring the Israeli Occupation: Young U.S. Jews Get an Unflinching ViewThe New York Times - By DAVID M. HALBFINGERPSAGOT, West Bank — The fun was over before the tour bus rolled into Har Gilo. For the past week, 28 college students from the United States had been taking part in a traveling experiment billed as an
Measles How a vaccinated woman's death exposes the threat of anti-vaxxersThe Guardian - Jessica Glenza in New YorkCatherine Montantes was a 28-year-old college student, training to become a border patrol agent, and recently diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder. When she stepped into the Lower Elwha tribal health
Comic Books Stranger Things Season 3 Finale Song Could Confirm SPOILER's Fatecomicbook.com - Patrick Cavanaugh The '80s setting of Stranger Things allows the series to incorporate a number of era-appropriate songs, inviting audiences to not only connect with …
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