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Humans have harvested the sea for tens of thousands of years, but only in the past few centuries have we begun to take a big toll on ecosystems. The two food webs below show predatory relationships among life-forms in the northern Adriatic Sea.
Read More »Operations Suspended at Hazardous Fluid Wells after 11 Quakes
By Kim Palmer CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Ohio has suspended operations at five deep-well hazardous fluid disposal sites after a series of 11 earthquakes in the Youngstown, Ohio, in the past year, including one on Saturday with a magnitude of 4.0, officials said. [More]
Read More »‘Water Poor’ Will Suffer Most as Climate Change Hits Cities
Indore is the fastest-growing city in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, India. The industrial center has grown rapidly in the past 20 years, reaching a population of nearly 3.3 million people.
Read More »Robert Graham’s Shirt Story
In honor of the 10th anniversary of his Robert Graham clothing label, American designer Robert Stock unveiled X Collection, consisting of 40 intricately designed shirts ($178 to $228). The shirts are mostly modern redesigns of best-selling patterns from the past decade, and each incorporates a fancifully embroidered X inside the ...
Read More »Aerosol Particles Dry Out South Asian Monsoons
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Summer monsoons that provide up to 80 percent of the water South Asia needs have gotten drier in the past half century, possibly due to aerosol particles spewed by burning fossil fuels, climate scientists said on Thursday. [More]
Read More »NASA Figures Show That Commercial Rocket Costs Less Than Half as Much as Government-Run Effort Would
SpaceX has been the darling in the past few years of the so-called NewSpace movement--private companies aspiring to do the spacefaring work that was once limited to the space programs of the world’s superpowers. [More]
Read More »U.S. Taking Initial Steps to Grapple with Space Debris Problem
The space shuttle era is finished, its vehicles museum-bound . The deep-space forays of Apollo astronauts are long gone, their final moon voyage nearly 40 years in the past
Read More »Global Climate Worry Up Slightly Since 2009
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Global concern about climate change has risen only very slightly over the past two years, as consumers have focused on more immediate economic worries, according to an opinion poll published on Sunday. [More]
Read More »Superstar Alumni of the Inc. 500
A look back at how 20 companies from the past 30 years have created 575,457 jobs. Infographic by Tommy McCall 20 Companies. 30 Years.
Read More »Video: Is it time to tax junk food?
With the percentage of obese adults doubling in the past 30 years, some industry experts think soda and junk food should be taxed, like cigarettes.
Read More »Adopting a Caterpillar, and other adventures
For the past few weeks, my daughter and I have been immersed in a common childhood ritual: observing the lifecycle of a caterpillar.
Read More »Old Weather
To better understand how weather will behave in the future, researchers need to understand how weather has behaved in the past [More]
Read More »Second Z plutonium ‘shot’ safely tests materials for NNSA
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced that researchers from Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories have completed their second experiment in the past six months at Sandias Z machine to explore the properties of plutonium materials under extreme pressures and temperatures.
Read More »Geoffrey Bradfield
Signature: “I am a modernist, and my work is largely predicated on the use of major contemporary art. Although I have great respect for the past, I like my work to reflect our moment in time.” Bradfield also is instrumental in building exceptional collections of important antiques, and he has ...
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