The long-shot Democratic hopeful says he would put minority and low-income communities first in his climate change...

After devastating the Bahamas, Dorian is continuing its long crawl toward the southeast US with slightly weakened winds. Hurricane Dorian stormed into the record books on Sunday when its maximum sustained winds of 185 miles (300 kilometers) per hour tied it in second place with 1998's Gilbert and 2005's Wilma as the most powerful Atlantic hurricane since 1950, according to Colorado State...

E*TRADE Financial Corporation today released the data from its monthly sector rotation study, based on the E*TRADE customer net percentage buy/sell behavior for stocks that comprise the S&P 500...

Hurricane Dorian is finally moving. Before Dorian picked up speed Tuesday morning, the upper atmosphere had been too calm. Its eyewall first hit Grand Bahama Island Sunday night, and into Tuesday morning part of the eye still lingered there, meteorologists...

Using anti-bacterial mouthwash could reduce the benefits of exercise, a study has found. Physical exertion is known to lower blood pressure but the effects are significantly reduced when people use mouthwash instead of water. A team of international scientists said the results showed the importance of oral bacteria in cardiovascular health. They are urging health professionals to pay attention to...

The Kentucky country-folk singer-songwriter's sixth album vividly explores the course of a...

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Iran's space program, saying that a recent explosion on a launch pad was a sign of missile work. "The United States will not allow Iran to use its space launch program as cover to advance its ballistic missile programs," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. "Iran's August 29 attempt to launch a space launch vehicle underscores the...

Scientists have found a way to predict the risk of heart attack with 90 per cent accuracy - almost a decade in advance. The breakthrough by Oxford University uses artificial intelligence to look “beneath the surface” of routine CT scans and spot biomarkers which can give early red flags. Scientists said 350,000 people a year could benefit from the checks, ensuring they were given the right...

Utilities are extra-critical infrastructures with complex security requirements. Sophisticated threat vectors stand poised and ready to attack—with potential, ongoing risk to physical security, IT, logical and Operational...

The United States imposed sanctions on Iran's civilian space agency and two research organizations on Tuesday, saying they were being used to advance Tehran's ballistic missile programme. The U.S. Treasury sanctions targeted the Iran Space Agency, Iran Space Research Center and the Astronautics Research Institute, according to a statement on its website. "The United States will not allow Iran to...

The European Space Agency says it performed a collision avoidance maneuver over the Labor Day weekend to head off a potential crash between its Aeolus wind-measuring satellite and one of SpaceX's Starlink broadband data satellites. In a series of tweets, ESA said Monday's event marked the first such maneuver taken to avoid an active satellite in what's expected to become a "mega...

President Trump took the first major step in the proposed plan to establish a U.S. Space Force. Is the potential military branch needed for national security or a silly sci-fi...

The New Jersey Senator unveiled his $3 trillion plan on...

The European Space Agency said Tuesday it had altered the trajectory of one of its observation satellites to avoid a possible collision with a craft operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX. "@ESA 's #Aeolus Earth observation satellite fired its thrusters, moving it off a collision course with a @SpaceX satellite in their #Starlink constellation," the agency's official Twitter account said. It said its...

Chris JacksonPrince Harry flew into fresh controversy Tuesday as he sought to address accusations of hypocrisy that have dogged him and wife Meghan Markle this summer over their use of private jets, saying that he only flies private when there are security concerns.After admitting that his travel habits were “not perfect” as he launched a major tourism-sustainability drive today, Harry said in...

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Occasionally, as the warming waters dissolve the bottom of one of the icebergs, it becomes top-heavy and does a somersault, as if it were playing instead of dying. Holmen, wearing a woollen hat with a hot-pink pom-pom against the chill of an Arctic summer day, has lived in the northern Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard for three decades. "We are losing the Svalbard we...

U.S. presidential hopeful Cory Booker unveiled a $3 trillion plan to address climate change on Tuesday, vowing to reach a 100% clean energy economy by 2045 by sharply curbing fossil fuels while investing heavily in renewable energy sources. The plan also calls for a new White House-coordinated "Environmental Justice Fund" that would focus on defending at-risk communities from environmental...

U.S. presidential hopeful Cory Booker unveiled a $3 trillion plan to address climate change on Tuesday, vowing to reach a 100% clean energy economy by 2045 by sharply curbing fossil fuels while investing heavily in renewable energy sources. The plan also calls for a new White House-coordinated "Environmental Justice Fund" that would focus on defending at-risk communities from environmental...

A  new study involving hundreds of thousands of participants finds that homosexual behavior is about one-third genetic — and that many genes are involved, each having only a tiny effect. It even manages to single out a few: “rs34730029,” for example, increases the chance of having a same-sex experience by 0.4 percentage points. These genes might affect sex hormones and the sense of...

The mayor of Chamonix in the French Alps has urged President Emmanuel Macron to act against "wackos" climbing the nearby Mont Blanc, after a series of incidents including a British tourist abandoning a rowing machine on the famed mountain. Mayor Jean-Marc Peillex, who for years has sounded the alarm against overcrowding on Europe's highest peak, said a member of Britain's "Royal Commandos" hauled...

Depths of lakes that hold about 90% of US’s freshwater spiking to record levels, from 14in to nearly 3ft above long-term averages ‘There’s no doubt that we are in a region where climate change is having an impact,’ said Richard B Rood, a University of Michigan professor. Photograph: Colter Peterson/APThis summer, as rain relentlessly poured down on the Great Lakes region, Detroit...

Iran has acknowledged for the first time that a rocket at its Imam Khomeini Space Center exploded last week because of a technical malfunction during a test, an official has said. The comments by government spokesperson Ali Rabiei were the first explanation for Thursday's explosion, which came ahead of a planned satellite launch by Iran that the US has criticized. Mr Rabiei also criticised...