While climate scientists worldwide continue to issue urgent warnings that human-caused global warming will make heat waves “hotter, longer, and more frequent,” a city in Pakistan on Monday may have set a record for the highest April temperature ever recorded on Earth. As highlighted by French meteorologist Etienne Kapikian on Twitter, the city of Nawabshah…
In just three days, a petition in the United Kingdom aimed at keeping right-wing operative and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon from entering the country has gathered more than half the signatures it needs in order for the government to issue a formal response. “Steve Bannon is a far-right political figure who poses a direct…
Sixty human rights organizations from Haiti and around the world sent a letter Monday to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, imploring the U.N. to fufill its responsibilities to the hundreds of thousands of victims affected by the catastrophic 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti it caused. “This letter highlights how far the U.N.’s charity-based model falls…
Click:galss candle jar As the global community continues to demand justice for murdered Washington Post columnist and Saudi Arabian dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his first public comments, described Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month as “horrendous” before immediately defending Saudi Arabia as strategically important to counter…
Always one to rock the sexiest, sassiest, and most va-va-va-voom looks, Ariel Winter is serving up the best look at the 2017 Emmys in this double thigh-high slit gown. Of the beaded silver and black gown, Winter said: “I was just looking for something different. I loved it and thought it was a beautiful dress,”…
In a move celebrated by experts and activists who continue to raise alarm about the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance—fueled in part by rampant overuse of medicines in agriculture—the European Parliament on Thursday approved new rules for antibiotic use on healthy farm animals. “This is a hugely important breakthrough for human and animal health and…
Gwen Stefani’s got big news coming, and we are so ready for it. The singer took to her social media accounts on Monday to give fans a heads-up that something’s coming this Thursday, and it looks pretty festive. In the promo (below), Stefani stood in a holiday-themed room, complete with a decorated silver Christmas tree,…
When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31st for the first time in more than a decade, commentators were asking why. According to official data, the economy was rebounding, unemployment was below 4%, and GDP growth was above 3%. If anything, by the Fed’s own reasoning, it should have been raising rates. The…
This was the first public outing Jolie has made since revealing she was one of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment victims. “I had a bad experience with Harvey Weinstein in my youth, and as a result, chose never to work with him again and warn others when they did,” she said in an email to…
As human activity continues to drive the climate crisis that is causing rapid ice loss at both poles and in other cold regions, destroying the habitats of animals who live there, Russian islands in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago have declared a state of emergency in response to a “mass invasion” of dozens of starving polar…