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- A thumb-sized wasp has killed dozens of people in China and injured more than 1,500 with its powerful venomous sting. The spate of attacks could be caused by the unusually dry weather in the area, authorities say. Urbanization could also be a...
- Nearly a year after Sandy, you hear the same refrain everywhere: “Hey, how are you doing? Are you guys back home yet?” About a quarter, possibly more, are not.
- Frank Ober, a former firefighter, remembers when having the dirtiest turnout suit after a fire was a point of pride for firefighters. The times have changed, and research now shows firefighters are at a greater risk of developing cancer because of...
- In a few years, residents of the eThekwini municipality in the port city of Durban in South Africa could be drinking water that was once flushed down their toilets, as authorities are planning to recycle some of the municipality’s sewage and purify...
- Chile has declared a state of emergency after a late frost caused an estimated $1 billion worth of damage to fruit crops, potentially hitting wine production in one of South America's top fruit exporters.
- The image is tailor-made to stoke fury over the shuttered government: drillers pulling oil and gas from beneath national parkland that citizens are barred from entering.
- For years, pregnant women have been advised to go easy on the fish. The reason for this caution: concerns that mercury, found in nearly all seafood, could harm their babies' developing brains. Now, fresh research suggests that advice might have been...
- A cancer drug discovered in a humble lichen, and ready for testing in patients, might sound too good to be true. That's because it is. But more than a hundred lower-tier scientific journals accepted a fake, error-ridden cancer study for publication...
- A new study published in the journal of Environmental Science and Technology has found high levels of radiation and salinity in a creek near a drilling wastewater treatment facility in western Pennsylvania.
- An additional 16 people were charged by Russia with piracy Thursday for their role in a foiled Greenpeace protest against oil drilling in the Arctic, a Russian television network reported.
- Thousands of Spanish homeowners on a Mediterranean coastline have suffered a month of sleepless nights after a wave of minor earthquakes. Many people, including the country’s Minister of Industry, say a massive offshore gas storage plant could be to...
- The image is tailor-made to stoke fury over the shuttered government: drillers pulling oil and gas from beneath national parkland that citizens are barred from entering.
- MONTREAL/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United Nations' civil aviation body has reached outline agreement on a global scheme to curb airline carbon emissions, casting a shadow over a rival EU plan to lower pollution from planes.
- We know: $70 is A LOT of money to spend on something to hold your apple cores. Especially when a plastic bucket works just fine. (For that price, it should also make you dinner … and wash the dishes afterwards.) But the CompoKeeper promises to...
- Microbiologists show soil microbe communities can be influenced to decrease nitrous oxide emissions.
- The mystery of why life on Earth evolved when it did has deepened with new research. Scientists have ruled out a theory as to why the planet was warm enough to sustain the planet’s earliest life forms when the Sun’s energy was roughly three-quarters...
- API-U offers training any way you want it, anywhere you want it. -More-
- The threat of Tropical Storm Karen has prompted several Gulf of Mexico producers to shut in production and evacuate personnel -More-
- A Norwell Engineering executive defended BP's efforts to plug its leaking Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 during a -More-
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