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Hurricane Norman strengthens as Category 3 in eastern Pacific

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Gordon, never a hurricane, killed child when blowing down tree

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The Weather Prediction Center is forecasting rain totals as high as 5 inches through Wednesday morning in South Florida. Tropical Storm Florence poses no th...

Brett Kavanaugh Snubs Handshake From Parkland Victim's Father

He had just come from the Bush White House, where he watched a president wage war while trying to protect America from future 9/11-style terrorist attacks. He r...

Father of Parkland shooting victim approaches Kavanaugh at Supreme Court confirmation hearing

Nixon one of the four greatest moments in court history". "If I thought that there was a way that we could stop the hearings from proceeding, I would partici...

Space station air leak: someone drilled the hole, say Russians

Fortunately, crew members were able to plug the hole using an epoxy-coated gauze wipe. A hot potato: Russian Federation has reason to believe that a leak di...

Almost 90 elephants found dead due to poaching

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Remnants of Gordon could bring heavy rain here by week’s end

NOAA forecasters are now calling for 9 to 13 named storms with winds of 39 miles per hour or higher, of which 4 to 7 will strengthen into hurricanes. After ma...

Hurricane warning issued as Tropical Storm Gordon hits Gulf

Tropical Storm Gordon is set to slam into the north central Gulf Coast on Tuesday night. Gordon was generating winds of 50 miles per hour (80 km per hour) on ...

"Planet Nine" Might Be Invisible, Hiding Beyond Neptune, Scientists Think

It could be a cluster of asteroids , or it could be a planet up to 20 times the mass of Earth. But Nasa is optimistic because something out there is pushin...

GMB union says British public deserves a vote on final Brexit deal

Mr Johnson used his regular Daily Telegraph column to brand the Prime Minister's Chequers plan that saw him resign from government a "fix" that can only lea...

SABOTAGE on the International Space Station: Leak was ‘MAN-MADE’ blasts Russian Federation

Instead, Roscosmos and Soyuz manufacturer Energiya are now looking at whether evidence of drilling was intentional or a poorly-fixed mistake. "What is this: a...

Govts 'not ready' for Poland climate change talks: Fiji Prez

While the talks have made modest progress, the Bangkok meeting is the last opportunity before COP24 to accelerate negotiations. Meanwhile at another FCCT pr...

Boris Johnson's former aide RIDICULES May's Chequers proposal with this BRILLIANT point

So began the back-to-school Brexit bickering, which looks like it's fast developing into a full-scale feud between the Prime Minister and her former foreign sec...

‘Open season for poachers’: 87 elephant carcasses found in Botswana

Dr Mike Chase , from the group Elephants Without Borders , told the BBC that the massive scale of the find meant the government of Botswana needed to take ...

Full 'Strawberry Moon' Tonight -- But Don't Expect it to be Red

Eastern, when the sun and moon were on completely opposite sides of the Earth. The fruity moniker doesn't actually have anything to do with the moon's color, ...

Tropical Storm Gordon forms near upper Florida Keys

It could have winds up to 60 miles per hour by the time it makes landfall late tomorrow night or early Wednesday morning around Louisiana or Mississippi. How mu...

[H]ardOCP: Martian Skies Clearing over Opportunity Rover

A global dust storm has been raging on the planet for almost two months. Opportunity has re-shaped the way we understand the red planet thanks to its abilit...

It looks like the Northern lights on Saturn

The images, which are presented as a composite, were taken before and after the Saturnian northern summer solstice in 2017 and early 2018. A video, seen abo...

Rachel Notley pulls Alberta out of federal climate plan after pipeline decision

Friday, Trudeau was asked about Rachel Notley's announcement the night earlier that Alberta will not go along with the federal plan after Ottawa's approval of...

McCain to be buried at US Naval Academy

Capitol. In addition to former President George W. Bush's eulogy, Obama called the honor of giving a speech at McCain's funeral a "precious and singular h...

ISS crew repairs leak

NASA said on Twitter Thursday that "The crew aboard the International Space Station is conducting troubleshooting and fix work today after the discovery of ...

Earth's Ecosystems Could Be Radically Altered Thanks to Climate Change

The researchers used their analysis of how vegetation changed after the last ice age to project how much current ecosystems could change in the 21st century a...

Astronomers Get Detailed View of Ancient 'Monster Galaxy'

Co-author of the study, Min Yun, said they were surprised to find that the galaxy featured a massive, ordered gas disk that ran in regular rotation, which was c...

Googles AI to predict earthquake aftershocks

To do it, Meade and DeVries began by accessing a database of observations made following more than 199 major earthquakes . DeVries said the process also hel...

Climate Change Contributed to Neanderthal Demise | Archaeology, Paleoanthropology, Paleoclimatology

The layers of the stalagmites showed a series of prolonged extreme cold and excessively dry conditions in Europe between 44,000 and 40,000 years ago. The temper...

A scallop skirmish erupts between French, British boats

Scallops are a valuable commodity here, but fishermen like Julien Hue, who also joined the protest, are only allowed to fish for them seven months of every year...

NASA's New Horizons snaps its first photo of Ultima Thule

New Horizons is moving fast . Just how fast is New Horizons, by the way? Since then, other craft have been determined to be faster. In the coming months it w...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot reveals signs of water

Having succeeded, the researchers tried to penetrate deeper inside the planet's atmosphere, using conventional radio telescopes, and microwave counterparts, i...

Yikes! Ancient Parasitic Wasps Found In Fossil Fly Pupae

Typically, the flies were entirely consumed, and the wasps died and turned fossilized while silent one day of the flies' chrysalis shells. Scientists have di...