Alarmed by the alarm: people react to ‘severe alert’ on phones over UK wildfires | Wildfires
On Friday at 7pm, Thérèse Coffey was nine miles away from a nuclear power station when her phone…
Warnings in effect: Tropical Storm Lala strengthens ahead of Hawaii strike
Tropical Storm Lala will track near Hawaii this weekend, likely as a low-end Category 1 hurricane, with threats…
Salvage work begins on tanker leaking oil off Oman, risk firm says | Oil and Gas News
A salvage operation is under way to stabilise the stricken tanker behind a major oil spill off Oman,…
Person fined $5,000 for using foghorn to disturb sleeping polar bear
A person has been fined for sounding a foghorn that woke a slumbering polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard…
How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption
Today we’re excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is…
Hundreds of sea turtles are stranded in Cape Cod each year. An ‘amazing network’ has mobilized to help | US news
Sea turtle #471 gasped audibly, as veterinarian Kathy Tuxbury palpated the surgical scar on the animal’s left flipper.…
Lions and tigers begin a long-awaited rescue from a notorious Argentine zoo
LUJAN, Argentina (AP) — Thirty lions and tigers that were kept alive — barely — for years in…
Buenaventura residents criticise state neglect after Colombia’s earthquake | Earthquakes News
Chronic under-investment In Buenaventura alone, some 540 homes have collapsed and 3,416 sustained damage. Some 330 residents were…
Storms of dust and sand are another sign our climate is changing. Two experts explain
Imagine you wake up one morning and look out your window. You see a sky of red, hear…
Urban expansion and the collapse of tropical stream ecosystems
Ruddiman, W. F. The Anthropocene. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 41, 45–68 (2013). Article Google Scholar Malhi, Y.…
Person fined $5,000 for using foghorn to disturb sleeping polar bear
A person has been fined for sounding a foghorn that woke a slumbering polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard…
Tsunami warning lifted after earthquake kills two in Indonesia
Two people were killed after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Flores region on Saturday, following the lifting of…