Month: October 2020

August 2014 was the warmest since records began in 1880, new data from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies reveals. The month’s combined global land “NASA: Warmest August Ever”

The pro-democracy crowds in central Hong Kong are growing, not shrinking, after more than three days of sustained protest. Even heavy rains and thunder storms “Pro-Democracy Demonstrators Dig Deep, Hold Ground in Hong Kong”

The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks “Newly Leaked NSA Docs Reveal Saboteurs Infiltrate Tech Companies Worldwide”

While elected officials in Washington have gotten little done over the past four years, Republicans in statehouses across the country have advanced a conservative agenda “'Supermajority'? GOP Poised to Gain Major Ground in State Legislatures”

Voters in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C. approved marijuana legislation on Tuesday night, legalizing the sale, possession, and use of marijuana for adults over 21. “Trend Towards Ending Marijuana Prohibition Continues as Legalization Wins Big”

Greenpeace activists were wounded Saturday in what appears to be the deliberate ramming of their boats by Spanish Navy vessels during a non-violent direct action “Greenpeace Activists Wounded After Being Rammed by Spanish Navy”

On Monday afternoon, at the exact time of day that unarmed Missouri teen Michael Brown was shot by St. Louis police officer Darren Wilson, thousands “Disrupting 'Daily Order,' Ferguson Walk-Outs to Hit Over 30 Cities”

In a move that advocates are saying is a “momentous” win for public health, an Indian court on Friday rejected a bid from multinational pharmaceutical “Crippling Dominance of Big Pharma, Indian Judge Blocks Bayer's Drug Monopoly Bid”

Newly revealed documents show that NATO’s “kill list” for Afghanistan operations included not just senior Taliban leaders but those suspected of being low- and mid-level “New Snowden Docs Reveal Wider Net of NATO 'Kill List' Targets”

On the five-year anniversary of a devastating earthquake—and despite a last-minute political settlement reached Sunday designed to curb steet protests and political unrest—the people of “Five Years After Earthquake, Politcal Ground Still Shaking in Haiti”