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Tropical Storm Gordon forms near Florida

The National Hurricane Center has issued the watch specifically for the " Alabama-Florida border westward to east of Morgan City, Louisiana, including Lake P...

Space Station Crew Repairing ‘Micro’ Leak Likely Caused By Meteorite Strike

The International Space Station's cabin pressure is holding steady after crews repaired a leak on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft attached to the orbital complex, ...

California lawmakers pass strict 'net neutrality' bill

The state's legislature on Friday passed a law that would re-institute net neutrality protections the FCC did away with in December. The California bil...

Tropical disturbance will bring increased rain chances closer to Labor Day

The tropical wave, a large area of cloudiness and thunderstorms across the northeastern Caribbean Sea, is forecast to move westward to west-northwestward, the h...

Hurricane lane brought to Hawaii record rainfall

Current forecast models have Norman peaking on Friday as a Category 4 hurricane packing 130 miles per hour winds before it starts to weaken. "Weather models h...

Federal appeal court sides with Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish in quashing pipeline approvals

Notley says she spoke Prime Minister Trudeau following the Federal Court of Appeal's ruling and demanded that the federal government immediately launch an app...

Macron loses environment minister in surprise resignation

Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot surprisingly resigned from government live on radio on Tuesday. Audibly upset, Mr Hulot said on France-Inter radio that he...

California Ends Cash Bail, Bail Industry

As you may have guessed - or you may be feeling yourself - many questions remain. So are we. Every day, reporters at The Sacramento Bee are investigating and ...

Graham Celebrates McCain's Life In Emotional Senate Floor Speech

Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, took to the Senate floor Tuesday to remember his colleague. "I'll have more details to share about this group in the coming days", McConnel...

President Trump issues disaster declaration ahead of Hurricane Lane

NASA's Ricky Arnold took this photo of Hurricane Lane as it approached Hawaii . Parts of Maui County are also seeing wet weather as bands of rain extend...

Trump administration plans to roll back coal regulations

Around 600 coal-fired units at 300 facilities could be covered by the proposed rule. The Environmental Protection Agency's new Affordable Clean Energy (ACE...

Australia's Turnbull survives leadership vote; Dutton leaves

According to The Australian , multiple MPs called Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton over the weekend to promise their support, should he choose to challen...

Those Little Contact Lenses Are Creating A Big Problem

They enter lakes, rivers, and oceans, where they are ingested by marine wildlife and enter a long food chain. The fragments are heavier than water, so they ...

Plastic pollution: 'Stop flushing contact lenses down the loo'

Even if the whole contact lens does not escape through waste water filters, the fragments of them can be unsafe, too, contaminating the environment. "Consid...

Hawaii braces for 'life threatening' category four hurricane

The storm was in the Pacific about 315 miles south of the Big Island town of Kailua-Kona early Wednesday, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph. Aircraft fr...

Hurricane brings rare watches, warnings to Hawaii

It's now about 320 Miles south of Hilo, moving W-NW at almost 9mph. While the storm is expected to weaken slightly as it makes its northward move, it will likel...

EPA proposes relaxing coal plant emissions rule

Trump is expected to tout the proposal as a lifeline for coal at a West Virginia rally later on Tuesday (we'll probably also hear about CLEAN COAL! ), but it's...

Hurricane Lane, a dangerous Category 4 storm, headed toward Hawaii

But the agency cautioned, "Lane is forecast to remain a unsafe hurricane as it draws closer to the Hawaiian Islands". While the storm is expected to weaken slig...

Australian PM waters down energy bill to dampen leadership pressure

The deputy leadership was also declared vacant, but Julie Bishop was the only person nominated so hung on to her role. The PM won the vote 48-35, from 86 memb...

Subtropical Storm 'Not A Threat To Bermuda'

Subtropical Storm Ernesto has formed in the central Atlantic Ocean. With five named storms so far in 2018, forecasters are still calling for four to eight mor...

Weed killer found in oat cereal and granola bars

Some popular breakfast foods and cereals marketed to children contain a weed-killing chemical that some health authorities have linked to cancer . Glyphosat...

Commander Of Bin Laden Raid: Revoke My Security Clearance Too, Trump

Clapper and former CIA Director Michael Hayden have appeared on a White House list of people who may also have their security clearances revoked . Ohr had ...

Storm Ernesto is heading our way with torrential rain this weekend

Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 15 miles from the center with tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up to 60 miles from the center. There wi...

Risk for flooding Wednesday

Mary's, Calvert, Prince George's and Charles counties until midnight. The cold front heads to the east and the weather is expected to dry out for Thursday . ...

Jury Finds Monsanto’s Roundup Responsible for Man’s Cancer

Applying the relatively low standard of proof required in California civil courts that a claim is "more likely to be true than not true", the jury awarded John...

NASA launches Parker Solar Probe in first mission to 'touch Sun'

But due to a technical snag, the launch date was delayed and scheduled on Sunday, Aug. 12, at 3:31 a.m. EDT (0731 GMT) during a window that will remain open...

How to Watch Sunday Night's Perseid Meteor Shower-Online or In Person

The annual Perseid meteor shower is back, with the peak night for the shooting stars falling on this Sunday night and into the early hours of Monday. Patience...

Suryagrahan 2018 Partial Eclipse; Timing, Significance, Myths and Precautions

Korean people in Seoul and Shanghai will also see a partial Eclipse. While, it will end at 04:21 pm PST, a private news channel reported. Out of three solar e...

Parker Solar Probe to make second launch attempt Sunday

The launch of the probe, which will be carried on the back of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, is now scheduled to take place on Sunday morning. ...

Perseid Meteor Shower to be Observable from Indonesian Sky

The Perseids are set to peak late Sunday, August 12 into the early morning of Monday, August 13, but the spectacle is already beginning to heat up in the dark, ...

What you need to know about the Perseid meteor shower

According to NASA , just because this weekend is the peak of the meteor shower doesn't mean they can't be seen afterward. If you do have a break in the clouds...

Mission to the sun lifts off Saturday morning

Over the next seven years, as it circles the sun, the probe will wrap around Venus seven times, each time slowing down and swooping closer to the sun. Roughly...

How to see the Perseid meteor shower peak this weekend

People can view the meteors streaming across the sky anywhere away from downtown Lawrence. The annual Perseid Meteor Shower is underway as of July 17, but i...

More than 100 shooting stars expected in weekend’s Perseid meteor shower peak

According to Space , this August during the peak, there should be about 60 to 70 meteors per hour, although past year saw about 80 an hour. The shooting star...

Storm strengthens to Hurricane John off Mexico's coast

Meanwhile, Hurricane Hector is also swirling in the Pacific as an impressively organized Category 4 hurricane. Hector's center will track about 150 miles so...