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A Scientist Dreams Up A Plan To Stop The Sahara From Expanding

An worldwide group of researchers, led by UMD scientists, explored such climate impacts by including bidirectional vegetation feedbacks between a global climate...

Florence expected to become hurricane as it threatens to hit Southeast US

Florence is expected to be back at Cat 4 as it approaches the Atlantic Coast this Wednesday to Thursday. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper also urged his ...

Olivia continues to weaken as it approaches Hawaii

Olivia is now located 1,375 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. Olivia is moving toward the west near 15 miles per hour. After the weekend, westerly shear should in...

'Superpod' Of Dolphins Seen Racing Off California Coast

A "superpod" of dolphins was spotted swimming in California's Monterey Bay this week. The video was recorded on Monday by Patrick Webster, who produces social...

Wind and Solar Farms Could Bring Rain to Sahara Desert, Study Says

The paper also reports that such power plants would also increase local temperatures under current conditions. But more rain along the southern edge of the Sa...

Bonnethead identified as first known omnivorous shark species

Though small by shark standards, adult females - the larger of the sexes - can still reach an impressive five feet long. "Until now, most people thought t...

Hurricane Norman to Cause High Surf

Forecasters say interests in the main Hawaiian Islands should monitor the progress of Norman over the next couple of days. The Central Pacific Hurricane Cente...

United Kingdom physicist donates $3 mn prize to boost diversity

This is the fourth Special Prize awarded: previous winners are Stephen Hawking, seven CERN scientists whose leadership led to the discovery of the Higgs boso...

Mars rover Curiosity sends a selfie back to NASA

Mars' global dust storm is abating and skies are clearing. Curiosity took the panoramic photo on August 9, shortly after bagging up its latest drilled rock...

Florence weakens but forecast to intensify, setting possible path toward Eastern Seaboard

On the other hand, meteorologists said Florence "may evolve into a serious direct threat" and make landfall somewhere between southern New England the Carolinas...

Trudeau Won't Use 'Tricks' To Jump Start Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

Trudeau told 630 CHED radio listeners Wednesday morning that the project would be "dead" if the federal government hadn't stepped in, citing government's high...

Britain and France agree a deal on scallop fishing Europe 12:43

French fishermen were incensed that British boats were accessing the highly productive waters, while their own government limited them to fishing there to betwe...

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler telescope is not dead yet

The Kepler Space Telescope successfully downloaded the Campaign 18 data and went into a sleep state, according to an August 24 update on NASA's website. Kic...

Space Station leak probe

More than 170 million pieces of space debris circle in the earth's orbit and a collision with the ISS appeared to be inevitable. The air leak in the Soyuz s...

Trump Vows to Protest 'First Man' Over US Flag Omission

Many spoke out against the move, including astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, and politician, Marco Rubio. " First Man ", starring Ryan Gosling , is scheduled to hit t...

US Scientist, Young Son Trampled by Giraffe

Katy Williams , 35, and her 3-year-old son Finn were 450 feet from their home in Blyde Wildlife Estate near the town of Hoedspruit when they surprised a female ...

Blue Bird Hero In 'Rio' Among 8 New Extinct Bird Species

The pretty little blue Macaw or the Spix's Macaw from the Cyanopsitta spixii and the large Glaucous Macaw which scientific name is Anodorhynchus glaucus may n...

Dispute over releasing documents dominates Kavanaugh hearing

Other Democrats quickly joined Booker, saying they too would release documents . The NAACP blasted Kavanaugh as "a risky ideologue whose extreme views on c...

2 named storms now in the Atlantic; should we be anxious?

The then-tropical storm made landfall around 10 p.m. and brought with it heavy rains and strong winds. Sustained winds of tropical-storm-force are likely in t...

Carlsberg Solved the Six-Pack Packaging Problem with Glue

Plastic rings pose a serious threat to wildlife and are choking landfill sites, and together with plastic bags are linked to increased ocean pollution. They ar...

Kamala Harris Grills Brett Kavanaugh on Mueller Investigation

She did so without evidence, and refusing to provide a list of lawyers at the firm. But Harris may have engaged in this line of questioning, because some Demo...

Brett Kavanaugh hearings: Supreme Court nominee faces more grilling

Kavanaugh's 2003 comments came as he was reviewing an op-ed article in support of two judicial nominees while he was working in the Bush White House, accord...

French sports minister resigns

Hulot, a star TV presenter who enjoyed the highest ratings of any in Macron's cabinet, accused the president of not moving fast enough on key green pledges, inc...

Scientists Develop a New Way to Turn Sunlight Into Fuel

Finding a practical, environmentally friendly artificial photosynthesis has been a challenge. One of the more long shot efforts to not only develop more ren...

Booker defies rule, releases confidential Kavanaugh email

Dianne Feinstein at Wednesday's confirmation hearing, Kavanaugh sounded a different tone. The 53-year-old Kavanaugh , no stranger to Washington politics,...

Tropical Storm Gordon forms near Florida Keys

On the forecast track, the center of Gordon will move across the eastern Gulf of Mexico tonight and Tuesday , and will approach the north-central Gulf Coast ...

Meet the bonnethead, the world's first omnivorous shark

The coastal bonnethead shark , which was previously thought to be exclusively carnivorous, enjoys eating seagrass, with up to 60 per cent of their guts full of...

Brett Kavanaugh Proves Elusive During Second Day In Supreme Court Hot Seat

It was a textualist judicial philosophy - one seemingly meant to assuage concerns that his confirmation would represent a rightward turn for the nation's high c...

Going up! Japan to test mini 'space elevator'

A small motorised container will then slide between the two ends. Obviously, if the project does prove to be successful, it would dramatically decrease the co...

Friends of the Earth condemn Electric Picnic litter

The Irish singer watched most of her set from the wings and to the delighted surprise of fans joined the legendary rhythm and blues and gospel singer to duet on...