More than 1,100 sea lions could be killed annually along a stretch of the Columbia River on the Oregon-Washington border to boost faltering populations of salmon and steelhead, federal officials said Friday. The National Marine Fisheries Service said it's taking public comments through Oct. 29 on the plan requested by Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Native American tribes. "The changes in the...

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg drew crowds on land Friday after her two-week sail across the Atlantic as the 16-year-old Swede led a protest march in front of the United Nations. Hundreds of activists, many of them teenagers, surrounded her outside U.N. headquarters, chanting, "Fossil lobbyists have got to go" and, "It's too hot!" — referriang to global warming. It was the New York...

Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg joined hundreds of other teenagers protesting outside the United Nations Friday in her first demonstration on US soil since arriving by zero-carbon yacht. Thunberg, 16, has spurred teenagers and students around the world to gather every Friday under the rallying cry "Fridays for future" to call on adults to act now to save the planet. "Stop...

Donald Trump has tweeted what appears to be a new, high resolution image of the site of a failed Iranian satellite launch, claiming that the United States had nothing to do with the incident.The image was posted shortly after Mr Trump was scheduled to receive an intelligence briefing, and experts say was likely taken from briefing documents. It has the reflection of what appears to be a flash in...

Americans who use e-cigarettes should avoid adding substances like cannabis and buying products off the street -- or consider refraining altogether -- while authorities investigate hundreds of cases of severe lung disease among vapers, health officials said Friday. A total of 215 possible cases of pulmonary illness associated with vaping from 25 states are currently being probed, the Centers for...

Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg took her weekly campaign for greater action on climate change to the gates of the United Nations on Friday, urging "everyone who cares about our future" to join her when world leaders gather in New York next month. Thunberg, 16, started missing school on Fridays a year ago to protest outside the Swedish parliament, sparking a global climate strike movement...

When a patient dies waiting for a kidney in the United States, they're generally considered the unfortunate victim of a growing donor shortage. "What we found is 84 percent of kidneys in the US get turned down at least one time, which is crazy," Sumit Mohan, lead author of a study published Friday in the influential JAMA Network Open journal, told...

Have you ever wondered how hurricanes form? Get an inside look at their birth and devastating power with this infographic from USA...

"What we found is 84 percent of kidneys in the US get turned down at least one time, which is crazy," Sumit Mohan, lead author of a study published in the influential JAMA Network Open journal told AFP. The new analysis found that for each patient who received a kidney from 2008 to 2015, their medical team rejected a median of 17 organs before finally accepting one. When a potential donor dies,...

Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg took her weekly campaign for greater action on climate change to the gates of the United Nations on Friday, urging "everyone who cares about our future" to join her when world leaders gather in New York next month. Thunberg, 16, started missing school on Fridays a year ago to protest outside the Swedish parliament, sparking a global climate strike movement...

Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg took her weekly campaign for greater action on climate change to the gates of the United Nations on Friday, urging "everyone who cares about our future" to join her when world leaders gather in New York next month. Thunberg, 16, started missing school on Fridays a year ago to protest outside the Swedish parliament, sparking a global climate strike...

An estimated 12 million women in Western countries are prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to combat the symptoms that happen with the decreasing levels of estrogen and progesterone associated with menopause. “This study is potentially going to change the way I prescribe hormones to my patients,” said Dr. Margaret Polaneczky, associate professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at...

Russian cosmonauts may have to end a decades-old tradition in which they urinate on the wheel of the bus taking them to the launch pad because their new spacesuits include one important modification—no fly. In 1961, the Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin, the first man to reach space, reportedly asked his bus driver to pull over to allow him to relieve himself before he took off from the Baikonur...

AstraZeneca's (AZN) second phase III study evaluating anifrolumab in adult patients with moderate-to-severe systemic lupus erythematosus meets the primary...

Corinne GhelberMore than 100,000 people in the United States are on a list for a kidney transplant, often waiting years for the call that will save their life—a call that doesn’t always come in time.Now a new study has found that while many of these patients are waiting, getting sicker and undergoing grueling treatments, transplant centers are repeatedly passing up organs without their...

Investigators don't know the cause and haven't identified a single common brand or drug across all of the cases. Here's what you need to...

A black super new moon is the next lunar phenomenon to take place this year, when both a black moon and a super new moon will occur at the same time.  While North America’s black moon occurred slightly earlier on July 31, it won't take place in Europe until later today.  But, what exactly is a black moon and a supermoon, and will we be able to see the event?  Here is everything you need...

A combination regimen of Esperion (ESPR) and Merck's Zetia significantly improves bad cholesterol (LDL-C) levels in patients with both hypercholesterolemia and type II...

IDMC recommends termination of AbbVie's (ABBV) late-stage study on its small cell lung cancer candidate, Rova-T. AbbVie discontinues...

Novartis (NVS) MS drug meets primary and secondary endpoints in late-stage...

Australia downgraded the Great Barrier Reef's long-term outlook to "very poor" for the first time on Friday, as the world heritage site struggles with "escalating" climate change. In its latest five-yearly report on the health of the world's largest coral reef system, the government's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority singled out rising sea temperatures as...

Draft international guidance on how industry measures its efforts to fight global warming will not include untested geoengineering technology, the body compiling the advice said Friday. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), a global, industry-driven non-profit comprising more than 160 member states, is currently working on guidance for business over how to quantify their...

Climate change remains the greatest threat to the Australian natural treasure, and things are not looking...

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettySubscribe to The Last Laugh on Apple PodcastsThis week, Bill Nye joined The Last Laugh podcast to offer some advice to the 10 Democratic presidential primary candidates who will be participating in CNN’s upcoming Climate Crisis Town Hall. After all, the “Science Guy” has a lot of experience making the case for climate action on...