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Learn moreTo halt encroaching desertification, a group of African nations wants to plant a "Great Green Wall" of trees extending from Senegal to Ethiopia.
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The nuclear-capable, medium-range ballistic missile, Prithvi-II was successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, off the Orissa Coast on Friday. The missile which was fired from a mob...
The Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) is set to start commercial negotiations with aircraft engine makers Eurojet Turbo GmbH and General Electric Aviation for 99 aircraft engines for the Light Combat A...
In spite of being built for 17 years, nuclear-powered submarine Severodvinsk will be armed with most advanced weapons and, perhaps, will become the world most silent sub, said Capt 1 rank Alexei Poteshkin,...
Two crewmembers of an F-5F fighter jet were killed Friday as the aging jet crashed into waters off the country’s west coast during a routine training mission. The Air Force immediately suspended operations...
Shipping containers have been redesigned to become housing, offices, and even health clinics, but now a startup in Tucson is transforming them into sun-free, soil-free greenhouses.
What do the Eastern spotted skunk, the striped skunk, black bear and long-tailed weasel have in common? They are just four of 117 endangered species in the state of Alabama -- which ranks 3rd in the countr...
Doom-sayers had long predicted that the lost, possibly ill whale would not live much longer.
Archaeologists are finding elaborate offerings at a dig site they believe will ultimately yield an elusive prize: the tomb of an Aztec emperor, the first of its kind.
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*URANIUM IS THE NEW ASBESTOS * ** * * *AUSTRALIA: UNION BAN ON NUCLEAR WORK * http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/uranium-is-the-new-asbestos-union-ban-on-nuclear-work-20100531-wonk.html AAP, Brisbane...
Above, you'll see some of the top images of the week. Click on each one to explore the story behind it. In case you couldn't get away from the beach this past week, here are five can't-miss Discovery News ...
Commanding NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, a group of elementary school students have made an exciting discovery: a lava tube skylight punched though the Martian surface.
Five sharpshooters fired bullets through the heart of a double murderer in Utah in what was was billed as a bloody throwback to Old West-style justice.
ENVIRONMENT - A dead sperm whale has been found floating a couple of km south of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmentalists are now warning this could be the first of many sperm whales kille...
A memory skill that pianists have little control over may orchestrate their performance.
No one knows just how the Gulf's corals are being affected by the spill, but scientists are worried since the organisms support an array of life.
So far, about 1,000 species of yeasts have been identified in food labs, but at least 10,000 new species are expected to be found in the near future. Cheers!
TECHNOLOGY - Want more proof that we now live in a widescreen world? At this rate by January 2012 at least 91% of the world will be using wide screen monitors... the exceptions will be companies with off...
During an exciting day out in London, I was invited to the launch of YuriGagarin50, a celebration of British and Russian advancements in space science.
The world's largest dams skim a little off the top from the ocean, but also depress Earth's crust, making sea level do funny things.
There have been no other cases of ancient humans eating hyenas, but this find may represent an exception.
By Stephen Pipkin-Savage Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement in the late '60s, announced on Facebook and by private interview with this reporter that he would be going to the oil-ravag...
by Len Hart, The Existentialist Cowboy ‘Police States’ are what they do! One of the things police states do is deny citizens a voice even as they seek to control information themselves. Lately and not sur...
Damselfish farmers seem to have a "green thumb," nurturing, harvesting and even defending their algae plots.
China Thursday vowed to take its military ties with Pakistan to a new height and defended its nuclear cooperation with Islamabad to build two new reactors for the country. Gen Kayani heading a high level P...
The aerospace and defence sector in the country is growing leaps and bounds and is fast emerging as a key participant in the Asia-Pacific region. The US and European aerospace companies are now recognising...
Russia's fifth generation fighter will be about three times as cheap as its foreign analog, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.He observed the test flight of a prototype fighter and lat...
Russia's Defense Ministry will order at least 50 fifth-generation fighters from 2016, a senior official said on Thursday."At the first stage, there will be dozens of planes, more than 50," said Vladimir Po...
Lockheed Martin has confirmed that the United Arab Emirates has resumed talks with rival bidders for a contract to supply a fleet of advanced jet trainer and light attack aircraft, about 16 months after si...
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates defended US arms sales to Taipei on Wednesday, citing China's "extraordinary" deployment of cruise and ballistic missiles opposite Taiwan. Both Gates and Admiral Michael M...
Ever wonder where the troposphere and stratosphere is? Take a look at this stunning photo from the space station to see atmospheric layering in all its beauty.
*US Social Forum Indigenous Events* *Invitation to all Indigenous Peoples* June 22nd-26th Detroit, MI Indigenous Environmental Network Newsletter http://www.ienearth.org/ The US Social Forum is happening f...
Archaeologists finally have a clear timeline for the ruling dynasties of ancient Egypt thanks to carbon dating.
When animals are severely deprived of oxygen prior to exposure to near-freezing temperatures, they can enter a state of suspended animation.
A dead whale on the beach raises two questions: What do we do with it? And how long until it explodes?
Soccer has been difficult to break into statistics, but researchers devise a way to objectively determine the best players.
Scientists discovered that a 4.2 percent change in deforestation of the Amazon yields a 48 percent increase in malaria outbreaks in Brazil.
Sharks, dolphins and other marine dwellers are fleeing the Gulf oil spill, heading to beaches and other coastal areas.
Top predators from Belize to Massachusetts carry drug-resistant forms of bacteria. They could be passing it back to humans on our dinner plates.
Video shows fish dying in a recent Chevron oil spill in Utah.
"Our situation is like a football match. The superpower countries are the players, and we are just the ball to be kicked around." - A young Pakistani civilian, North Waziristan The Great Game is indeed a...
***By Brenda Norrell* *Narcosphere* http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2010/06/border-news-reporters-are-now-enemies-truth . People who live along the US/Mexico border have a new online...
GPS technology can now be used to keep track of where visitors are going in a location like an amusement park.
Not all lasers produce light. This new technology is actually designed to reduce it.
"Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? ...
The government may have decided not to draft it for the anti-naxal offensive, but the Indian Army has started preparing for the possibility of being called upon to tackle what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...
If seeing is believing, this picture comes as sweet relief to a satellite operations team in Japan that has been overseeing the flight of an experimental solar sailing spacecraft.
India and South Korea will discuss the contours of a bilateral civilian nuclear deal and map out steps to achieve a $30 billion trade when the foreign ministers of the two countries hold talks in Seoul on ...
Crater formation is a a mysterious science, and one we won't get a good handle on until man returns to the pripristine craters of thelunar landscape.
Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said Tuesday that South Korea and the United States have postponed joint naval exercises again as the two allies are stepping up diplomatic efforts to censure North Korea for...
By Jung Sung-ki Cutting its teeth on component manufacturing and licensed production of U.S. weapons over the past decades, South Korea has emerged as a global arms developer, the head of the nation’s weap...
A squadron of F-4D Phantom fighter jets conducted its last flight Wednesday, ending its 41 years of service with the ROK Air Force. A ceremony for the decommissioning of the aircraft was held at the 11th F...
Russia is ready to participate in a tender to offer Turkey S-300 and S-400 surface-to-air missile systems, the state-controlled arms exporter said on Wednesday.The advanced version of the S-300 missile sys...
Fresh off the successful debut flight of the Falcon 9 rocket, Space Exploration Technologies nailed a contract worth nearly $500 million to launch a network of communication satellites for Iridium.
When it comes to green funerals, cremation actually has some serious environmental downsides. Now funerary experts are developing new techniques to bring humans closer to the Earth once we've left it. A wa...
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*Soccer World Championship in South-Africa*. I am no soccer fan, sorry folks. I am more fascinated by Nature, as you might know. The left picture I made when I was in SA a few years ago. I possibly couldn'...
It’s rare to catch a dog fighter in the middle of an actual fight, so when investigators are trying to convict suspected dog fighters, they need all the evidence they can get. That’s where DNA and -- even ...
Everyone knows air pollution is bad for us. But we might be losing sleep over it, literally, and suffering serious health problems as a result.
Scientists determined that the "Green Revolution" was greener than previously thought, preventing hundreds of billions of tons of greenhouse gases from entering the atmosphere.
Scientists experiment with using airport body scanners for a less controversial purpose: screening ancient mummies.
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By Brenda Norrell Censored News http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ *Photo 1: Schools for Chiapas, where Mayans oppose using genetically modified seeds which damage heritage crops* *Photo 2: Navajo Farming, ...
TECHNOLOGY - Imagine if by 2050 we could cut pollution levels in half? Or have extra housing and food for 3 billion inhabitants? Now I am not saying it will happen any time soon, but the colonization of M...
In case you need one more reason to hit the gym today, here it is.
...zzzZZZ* ...Woke up early this morning, to find that I left my radio on. Seems like the most interesting news is usually in the wee hours, as I listen to Bill Press on Air America KPOJ AM. Bill is inte...
Adding a small amount of fertilizer to weeds can make them tastier to hungry animals.
In the animal kingdom, a male's vocalizations are sometimes are tied to physical strength. Human men turn out to fit that phenomenon perfectly.
TECHNOLOGY - Research In Motion (the makers of the BlackBerry) is coming out with a tablet device to serve as a larger-screen companion to its BlackBerry phone, as well as a smartphone with a slide-out key...
*MNN: MANIFEST DESTINY TO MANIFEST INSANITY * ** *Mohawk Nation News* http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/ MNN. June 14, 2010. Arizona’s image is taking a well-deserved beating over its racial profiling and...
*Aboriginal people protest at Canadian government's first "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" forum in Winnipeg, demand real inquiry into Indian residential schools* Winnipeg: June 16, 2010 By Hidden f...
As NASA scientists issue fresh warnings about the hazard of a massive solar storm neutralizing our power grids, how can we mitigate the effects of a solar onslaught?
A new kind of fossilized dinosaur skin may help sort out real dino hide fossils from skin-like features in rocks.
About 25 percent of people experience flavors more vibrantly than everyone else.
Pakistan is seeking advanced U.S. attack helicopters and other weapons as part of a comprehensive arms package to bolster preparations for what its military is calling a "silent surge" of more than 100,000...
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*URANIUM IS THE NEW ASBESTOS * ** * * *AUSTRALIA: UNION BAN ON NUCLEAR WORK * http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/uranium-is-the-new-asbestos-union-ban-on-nuclear-work-20100531-wonk.html AAP, Brisbane...
ENVIRONMENT - A dead sperm whale has been found floating a couple of km south of the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Environmentalists are now warning this could be the first of many sperm whales kille...
TECHNOLOGY - Want more proof that we now live in a widescreen world? At this rate by January 2012 at least 91% of the world will be using wide screen monitors... the exceptions will be companies with off...
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