An oil spill in the Yellowstone River near Billings, Montana prompted evacuations of people and threatened wildlife in an area rich in endemic birds and fish. The oil spill is reportedly caused by a leak in a pipeline owned by ExxonMobil that runs under the river. The small town of Laurel, Montana is along the […]
Pedestrian-friendly cities are becoming the norm in Europe very much unlike in the United States where the trend is transforming cities to make them more conducive for car drivers. Governments in Europe are doing everything from converting multiple roads into pedestrian areas and creating so-called “environmental zones” within cities that are only for vehicles with […]
As researchers braved the Philippine mountains and oceans, they found an overwhelming number of new species that are not known to science. This included the likes of an inflatable shark, which swells up to protect itself from larger predators. They also found shrimp-eating sharks, a dozen of new insects and spiders, more than 50 species […]
The Spratly Islands are fast becoming a potential flashpoint that the U.S. should consider helping Southeast Asian nations against China’s aggression, Sen. John McCain said in Washington. Speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Sen. McCain said the U.S. should help the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) to “build up their […]
Interstellar space travel is commonly found in science fiction books and movies but the U.S. Department of Defense wants to make it science fact. Dangling a grant worth half a million dollars, the Defense Department wanted to elicit bright ideas from the private sector to make space travel possible within the next 100 years. So […]
Saudi women are now getting behind the wheel in the Muslim holy land as a protest for banning them from driving. Many Muslim scholars have issued decrees saying that there is no basis for a ban on women driving, and many women already drive in rural areas in Saudi Arabia. Today’s protest centers on Manal […]
Public transport will not be a viable option for baby boomers in many U.S. cities when they enter retirement age according to the Transportation for America Report presented in Congress today. The study reveals that 15.5 million retirees ages 65 to 79 will have poor or absent access to public transport four years from now. […]
Bullet train service from Shanghai to Beijing, China is gaining favor among airline passengers who have been irritated by frequent airport delays. It will take less than five hours for passengers to travel the 1,318- kilometer route using the bullet train service between the two cities, much longer than the two-hour flight by most airlines. […]
Water on the moon, thought to exist in scant amounts, exists in abundance after all, albeit in a form unlike what commonly appears here on Earth. A new study published in the journal Science reports that scientists have discovered that water on the moon is locked inside orange glass soil that are found scattered on […]
Elizabeth Smart can finally end a dark chapter in her young life with the sentencing of her abductor on Wednesday. Brian David Mitchell was sentenced to life in prison for abducting, raping and holding her hostage for nine months in 2002. Elizabeth Smart was only 14 years old when Mitchell took her at knifepoint […]
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