by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Pro- and anti-whaling nations locked horns Monday as the International Whaling Commission (IWC) began meeting in Brazil amid outrage over Japan's proposal to end a three-decade old moratorium on commercial whale hunting. Incoming IWC chairman Joji M...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Chances are you make it through most days without sparing a thought for Antarctica. At just over 5.4 million square miles, it's a massive chunk of land that is nearly twice the size of Australia and dwarfs the continental United States. It's...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The 2018/19 crop of oranges in Brazil's main producing belt will reach a lower-than-expected 273.3 million boxes (40.8 kg each), according to a projection from research body Fundecitrus released on Monday. The estimate is 5.2 percent smaller than...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Jennifer Holmgren is speaks softly, treads gently and has a warm, friendly demeanor. You think before you speak, often, which means that you're listening, and I think that's an important," says Holmgren, speaking with CNBC Make It in Los Angeles i...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Driver and passenger arrested after little girl hands over bag of marijuana to police who stopped them.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon and billionaire businessman and philanthropist Bill Gates will head an international commission on climate change to launch next month, the Dutch government said Monday. The commission, to be co-hosted by the...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
BA's handling of the latest corporate cyber attack shows a catalogue of missed opportunities.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Uighurs and other minorities are subjected to large-scale violations, HRW says
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
China's government said Aug. 31 allegations from the United Nations of human rights abuses in camps built for ethnic minorities in Xinjiang are "irresponsible and lack a substantial basis."
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Nations on either side of the whale hunting debate are set for a standoff as the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meets Monday, with Japan hoping to overturn the 32-year-old ban on commercial whale hunting. Japan will unveil proposals during t...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
The Hague-based court is set to investigate alleged U.S. war crimes committed in Afghanistan
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Seventeen years later, more than 1,100 victims of the hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade Center have yet to be identified.
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
US researchers at the University of West Virginia discover that certain VW diesel cars emit up to 40 times the permissible levels of harmful nitrogen oxide when tested on the road. September 18: The US Environmental Protection Agency accuses VW of d...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Donald Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee& Brett Kavanaugh& accepts that humans are causing global warming and we need to take action to stop it.& The problem is that he doesn’t trust the experts at EPA to do so and wants to erode thei...
by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago
Police found the bodies of the girls, their mother and their grandmother