A rare combination of two major ocean climate patterns is drawing the attention of meteorologists this year. According to an analysis by Severe Weather Europe, a rare Atlantic Niña developing in the tropical Atlantic is coinciding with a strengthening Super El Niño in the Pacific Ocean. While these two events occur in different oceans, forecasters…
Caption: Top left: A cinnamon-colored black bear and her cub flee. Top right: Brown bears on alert after hearing the sound of engines from an off-highway vehicle. Bottom left: A bald eagle eats a freshly caught meal from the nearby stream, ignoring the control sounds of gull calls. Bottom right: A black bear continues to…
For centuries, shellfish poisoning has been a threat to humans, and we have had no way to stop it. The ‘red tide’ algal blooms found on the Pacific coast are deadly contributors, producing one of the most vicious neurotoxins known: saxitoxin (STX). Eat the wrong shellfish, and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) follows. There is no…
Ronald L Fischer was taken into custody by US Marshals. (Photo: FBI Boston) A man who spent more than two decades evading US authorities after fleeing during his criminal trial has been arrested aboard a sailboat off the coast of New York.Ronald L. Fischer, 70, was taken into custody by US Marshals after investigators traced…
Visual of billboard carrying threats for US President Donald Trump (Image source: IranInternational) Visuals of a new billboard in Tehran’s Vali-e-Asr Square have escalated Iran’s public campaign of threats. The billboard features the name of recently deceased US Senator Lindsey Graham accompanied with what appears to be a hidden reference to assasination threats for US…
Winning tells you very little about what someone is actually made of. Pelé, widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers in history, argued the real test comes later. “Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose,” he said. A scoreline settles a single…
During the Second World War, a small, uninhabited island off Scotland’s north-west coast became the site of one of Britain’s most secret military experiments. In 1942, Gruinard Island was deliberately contaminated with anthrax spores as part of a classified biological warfare programme designed to test whether the deadly bacterium could be used against enemy livestock….
Maninder Singh Brar pleads guilty to fatal west London crash deaths. A 28- year-old Indian-origin man has admitted causing the deaths of a couple in their 60s following a fatal collision on the M4 in west London last month, PTI reported.Maninder Singh Brar pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court on Wednesday to two counts of…
ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan An ICC staff member and a former colleague who have accused International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan of sexual misconduct have spoken publicly about their allegations in televised interviews, days before member states vote on whether he should remain in office. In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on…
Once synonymous with isolation, imprisonment and political persecution, the remote Greek island of Gyaros is today gaining recognition for a dramatically different reason. The uninhabited island in the Cyclades, which was used for decades to exile and imprison political dissidents, has become an important refuge for the endangered Mediterranean monk seal, one of the world’s…
For decades, wind turbines have followed the same basic design: towering structures fitted with enormous rotating blades that convert wind into electricity. As manufacturers compete to build ever-larger turbines with blades stretching more than 100 metres, one Spanish company has taken a completely different approach. Instead of spinning blades, its device is a slender vertical…
Footage aired by CCTV showed a section of the hillside collapsing onto a cluster of riverside homes (AP photo) Several people were trapped after a landslide struck Pengshui county in the southwestern Chinese municipality of Chongqing on Friday, burying residential buildings and triggering a large-scale rescue operation, according to state media.State broadcaster CCTV said a…
