Photo: DVIDSHUB , Flickr, CC In the first nine months of this year, more than 21,000 people perished around the world due to climate-related events, a new report from Oxfam finds. That’s more than twice as many died in all of 2009. This news should hardly be surprising to anyone who follows international news — the flooding in Pakistan , heat waves in Russia , and sea level rise in island nations like T… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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International efforts to reduce fishing quotas for Icritically endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna , or better yet ban the trade outright, may have failed (again…), but that doesn’t mean you can’t help take action to reduce demand. The Center for Biological Diversity has just launched a boycott campaign urging chefs, restauranteurs and consumers to not buy or serve the bluefin… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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7:23 AM Wednesday Dec 1, 2010 Share Email Print The 15-year-old boy who held 23 students and a teacher hostage in a Wisconsin classroom yesterday has died in hospital from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Marinette Police Chief Jeff Skorik says the dead boy was sophomore Samuel Hengel. Skorik says Hengel shot himself as police stormed a classroom at Marinette High School. Trapped in their classroom with the gunman, the 23 terrified teens worked desperately to keep their captor calm by chatting and laughing with him about hunting and fishing. The teenager allowed five of his hostages out after about six and a half hours, and finally all 23 and their teacher emerged unharmed. Student hostage…
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Graphic courtesy Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund . Today the U.S. Senate passed Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act. After the recent scandal with eggs , and all of the other food safety issues of recent years ( meat , peanut butter , s… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Ahmet Davutoglu brushes aside leaked US diplomatic cable that described him as ‘exceptionally dangerous’, says tensions with Jewish state come from sharp policy disagreements
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivers his annual state-of-the-nation a… US soldiers stand in front of a Patriot anti-missile system at a military b… An illustration showing how the planned US missile defence shield would wor… President Dmitry Medvedev warned the West on Tuesday that the two sides’ failure to agree on a missile shield for Europe could spark an arms race that sees…
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IDF Northern Command chief says systems like Iron Dome designed to protect military offensive capabilities first and foremost. ‘Residents shouldn’t be under the illusion that someone will open an umbrella over their heads,’ he adds
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In an interesting move for a major console launch, Panasonic is reaching outside of the fold and looking to some select US consumers to test out its upcoming Jungle gaming handheld . No details on the testing program were given, and it’s not much in the way of news, but it’s the most we’ve heard out of Panasonic since it announced the online gaming-centric handheld in October — we still don’t know when the Jungle will land or how much it will cost. At least Panasonic isn’t short on self-assessment: “We know other companies out there have traditional hand- held gaming covered… We’re doing something very different.” You can’t argue with that, we’ll just have to wait and see if Panasonic can pull it off. Panasonic welcoming crash test consumers to the handheld gaming Jungle originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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WASHINGTON—US President Barack Obama faced off with his top Republican foes on Tuesday, groping for elusive compromise on taxes and a landmark arms control deal with Russia in their first post-election summit. The White House meeting, billed by Obama as the start of a new relationship with Republicans since voters routed his Democratic allies in the November 2 ballot, was not expected to yield any major breakthroughs. Amid deep voter anger at the sour US economy, neither side has shown much inclination to compromise on whether and how to tackle massive tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 with a built-in expiration…
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