While climate scientists have repeatedly raised alarm about the how human-caused global warming is driving “off the charts” ice loss in Greenland that will contribute to devastating sea level rise, a new analysis of a less studied region has ramped up those concerns, revealing that Greenland’s ice sheet is melting even faster than previously thought….
As India and Pakistan inch closer to war, the people of the two countries are making clear on social media that they’re not on board, with the hashtag #SayNoToWar trending in both countries. Indians and Pakistanis are urging caution from their leaders as the situation inches closer to war, turning to Twitter to get the…
A 2012 video in which Katie Couric said Matt Lauer “pinches me on the ass a lot” resurfaced Wednesday after Lauer was fired by NBC due to accusations of sexual misconduct. “He pinches me on the ass a lot,” Couric told Andy Cohen in a 2012 interview during a segment called “Plead the Fifth” on…
“You should have complete control of your data. It’s not oil. It’s not a commodity,” Sir Tim Berners-Lee charged ahead of an event celebrating the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web—his invention that created the internet as we know it. “The web is for everyone and collectively we hold the power to change it….
Two popular progressive figures indicated that they’d formed a new alliance this weekend, as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) spoke extensively with Jeremy Corbyn, head of the U.K.’s Labour Party, about their shared commitment to push bold, forward-thinking proposals. Corbyn thanked Ocasio-Cortez for “challenging the status quo” just a month into her first term in Congress…
Wedding bells are ringing this week as news of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s engagement and upcoming May 2018 marriage have hit newsstands, but this is hardly the first time Markle’s had big news in her life. In fact, according to Ellen DeGeneres, she was part of a hefty life decision of Markle’s not too…
The annual confab of the captains of global industry, finance, and wealth is underway in Davos, Switzerland at the World Economic Forum. Meanwhile, Oxfam reports that the wealth of the 2,200 billionaires across the globe increased by $900 billion last year – or $2.5 billion a day. Their 12 percent increase in wealth contrasts with…
Amid record-setting temperatures worldwide and predictions by experts that this year will be among the hottest humanity has ever seen, researchers behind a new study say a rapid global effort to plant billions of trees and the restoration of forests would be the “most effective” strategy for battling the planetary climate emergency. “It is available…
No doubt about it: Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown charmed audiences with her portrayal of Eleven, the supernatural sensation in the hit Netflix series. As it turns out, the actress is about to develop an entirely new fandom, because it was just announced that Millie Bobby Brown will play Sherlock Holmes’ younger sister in…