Monday, August 8, was Earth Overshoot Day.
Calculated annually by the environmental advocacy
group, Global Footprint Network, it is the day when
humanity has consumed all the natural resources —
produce, meat, fish, water, and wood — that our
planet can regenerate in a single year. This means
that for the rest of 2016, we will be using natural r...
Water, or rather the lack of it, is one of the most
pressing issues of our times. Unprecedented
droughts and growing populations have left many
countries struggling to keep up with demand. Given
that agriculture is the largest single user of
freshwater, providing farmers with new conservation
techniques would go a long way in alleviating our ...
In July 2016, much to the dismay of
environmentalists and the Standing Rock Sioux
tribe, the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) —
the federal government body in charge of the
nation's waterways — granted the final permits to
allow construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline
(DAPL). When completed, the 1,172-mile-long, $3....
Sunday, September 11, 2016, marks the 15th
anniversary of the most daring and deadliest
terrorist attack on American soil. Planned and
executed by Islamic extremist organization Al
Qaeda, the unprovoked act of violence is what led to
our ongoing "Global War On Terrorism” and changed
life as we knew it, forever.
On Wednesday, August 24, the residents of the
Apennine regions in central Italy were jolted awake
at 3.36 a.m. by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake. To
make matters worse, it was followed by over 80
aftershocks, including a 5.5 magnitude tremor that
hit Umbria an hour later, at 4.33 a.m.
While your pet fish may appear to be oblivious of
your presence, chances are it knows you extremely
well and can probably even identify you from a
crowd of humans! At least, that is the conclusion
reached by scientists the University of Oxford in the
U.K. and the University of Queensland in Australia,
following an extensive study of the archerfish, a sp...
With more than 16,000 jumps to his credit,
professional skydiver Luke Aikins has performed
many heart-stopping stunts, but his latest feat tops
them all. On July 30, 2016, the 42-year-old daredevil
became the first man in the world to leap off a plane
from an altitude of 25,000 feet without a wingsuit or
parachute! Instead, he relied on a net that measur...
With technology permeating every aspect of our
lives, it should come as no surprise that it is playing
an important role at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Wearable tech is not just helping elite athletes
deliver their optimal performance at this competitive
sporting event where everyone is battling for
Olympic gold, but also protecting them from serio...
A few weeks ago, if you saw someone wandering
around your neighborhood staring at their phone,
you might have assumed they were lost. Now, it
would not be too much of a stretch to think that
they are busy locating, capturing, battling or
training fictional creatures called Pokémon Welcome
to Pokémon Go, the free-to-play location-based aug...
