by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Has Been Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
The 16-year-old's FridaysForFuture Protest has galvanized young people around the world
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The 16-year-old's FridaysForFuture Protest has galvanized young people around the world
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and his Russian colleague Alexey Ovchinin, who survived a dramatically aborted Soyuz launch last year, blasted off successfully for the International Space Station on Thursday. The two men, joined by US astronaut Christina...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
A Russian-made Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, carrying three astronauts into space, two of whom survived a mid-air rocket failure in October. The Soyuz MS-12 took off at 1914 GMT, as planned, and is d...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nuclear power industry is pushing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to cut back on inspections at nuclear power plants and throttle back what it tells the public about plant problems. The agency, whose board is dominated by Trum...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
A Carlyle Group $1 billion deepwater crude export project faces a delay of up to 18 months after regulators called for a full environmental review, officials said, a setback in the private equity firm's race to be first to open a new deepwater, U.S....
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
On the one hand, with the Boeing best-seller out of commission, carriers such as Southwest Airlines Co. and American Airlines Group Inc. may be forced to turn to older aircraft to maintain capacity, notes Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Douglas Rothac...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Volkswagen AG said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may sue the German automaker over its failure to disclose its diesel emissions scandal to investors. VW said in its annual report https://bit.ly/2HlE1Su released earlier this week that t...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
When Astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin were last strapped into a Russian-made Soyuz spacecraft in late 2018, things didn't exactly go as planned. A last-second abort sent the pair careening back towards Earth, which is obviously...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
"Virtually everything that could go wrong for Snapchat over the past couple years since going public has gone wrong," wrote analyst Rich Greenfield, who upgraded the stock to buy. Greenfield noted a surge in North America spending from advertisers b...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Rosneft's local partner, Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, owed it hundreds of millions of dollars, according to internal documents, and there seemed no prospect things would get better. "It will be like this for eternity," a Rosneft internal audi...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
“There’s little tiny stuff out there that will kill you that you never think of.”
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The OPEC nation suffered its worst blackout in history last week following technical problems that the government of President Nicolas Maduro called an act of U.S.-backed sabotage but critics dismissed as the result of incompetence. Rights groups Pr...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Squeaky brakes are a common automotive nuisance, but fortunately it's a fairly easy and affordable fix.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Shark attacks on humans are incredibly rare, but they do still happen from time to time. As with any danger that could potential end your life, companies have developed what they see as solutions to the problem and in this case it's in the form o...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
All U.S. diplomats remaining in Venezuela left the country on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, amid a political crisis over the legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro's 2018 re-election. "U.S. diplomats will now continue that mission f...