Speaking to the paper’s significance, Jonathan Overpeck, co-director of the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, said: “It’s important to have quantitative estimates of how much human-caused warming is already making droughts more severe”.
It’s arguably not the prettiest or palatable of research, but the work being done at North Carolina State University on a particularly nasty virus leads to better understanding of its spread and, thus, how it could be contained in the future. More importantly, the vomit...
An SNP MP whose email address was among the millions released in a data hack on adultery website Ashley Madison has said it was “harvested” by hackers.
This year is set to break the record for the most sightings of jellyfish across the UK, conservationists say, with the giant barrel jellyfish also appearing in record numbers.
Longtime Sitka resident Nolan Simpson said he toured parts of town and saw one home where the driveway was gone, replaced by a stream washing through it. He passed the Indian River and said it was roaring.
Because the effects of climate change are smeared across the globe – and it isn’t simply that the air is warmer, but that a host of other environmental factors like evaporation rates and rainfall – it can be tough to pin down exactly what human factors have...
However, Google says some of the data that was lost to the lightning strikes were located in storage systems that were more susceptible to power failure because of repeated or extended battery drains. Google took full responsibility for the loss of data and apologized to its...
Corey Hood, 32, a member of the Army’s Golden Knights parachute team, died Sunday from injuries he suffered the day before during a jump over the Lake Michigan shore.
The launch took place from the Tanegashima Space Centre in the south-western prefecture of Kagoshima using a H-IIB launch vehicle, a revamped version of the H-IIA with which Japan entered the global satellite launch business.
Mobile operator EE is to unveil a host of new features to its fledgling TV service in its biggest update since launch, as the battle in the crowded streaming and on-demand television market intensifies. The update brings more flexibility and personalisation to EE’s TV...
Verizon is missing. Since Verizon is missing and the world just realized this fact yesterday, the internet got caught up in a series of “Verizon isn’t supporting Samsung Pay!” stories. Samsung recently revealed that its mobile payment app won’t work on...