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Taiwanese whisky is outshining veteran brands on the global stage
Taiwan's whisky-drinking tradition is nothing new, fueled by long business dinners and a "bottoms up" culture of throwing back hard liquor.In 2015, it ranked as the fourth largest market by value for...
View ArticleIt’s OK if you only hit 8,500 steps today — and sit while you work. Fitness...
You've probably heard fitness experts say that 10,000 steps — about 5 miles — should be your goal if you want to reap the daily benefits of exercise. And if your desk job makes a pedometer routine...
View ArticleScientists try to save this frog species from being wiped out by fungus
The mountain yellow-legged frog lives high in the remote alpine lakes of California’s Sierra Nevada range, but its population is being decimated by a microscopic, global scourge.This disease, known as...
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Is 'last-chance tourism' good or bad for endangered places?
When you hear that some extraordinary place is undergoing big changes, it’s a natural impulse to want to get out and see it.The glaciers are retreating in Glacier National Park? Time to finally take...
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Almost 1 million Haitians are in 'urgent need of humanitarian assistance'...
Haiti began three days of mourning Sunday for hundreds killed in Hurricane Matthew as relief officials grappled with the unfolding devastation in the Caribbean country's hard-hit south.Matthew was...
View ArticleOne of the largest ‘test tubes’ in science is an 8,000-acre forest in New...
The White Mountains of New Hampshire contain an unusual patch of woods known as the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. While its nearly 8,000 acres of hemlock, red spruce, sugar maple and other trees...
View ArticleCan a lawsuit against the EPA help solve ocean acidification?
Earth’s atmosphere isn’t the only place taking the heat of our carbon dioxide emissions.Thirty percent of the carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere is actually absorbed by the Earth’s oceans,...
View ArticlePresident Obama just created the Atlantic's first national marine monument....
President Barack Obama has created the Atlantic Ocean's first national marine monument. The new Northeast Canyons and Seamounts monument, which lies 130 miles off Cape Cod, has the same status as a...
View ArticleNext time you're walking in the woods, look out for and ‘Dead Man’s Fingers’
It’s easy to see why the fungus Xylaria polymorpha might spook someone.It’s often evocative of dingy human digits reaching out from unknown depths beneath the forest floor, earning it the nickname...
View ArticleThe Mexico City metro worker in charge of lost and found really wants to...
Two items stand out in Donovan Alvarado's lost and found office at the end of a cavernous corridor of Mexico City's metro system: Urns containing the ashes of a child and of a young man.Alvarado, 40,...
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Environmentalists to millennials: Donald Trump's climate policies are dangerous
Barack Obama carried the state of North Carolina in 2008 by just 14,000 votes. Four years later, the state flipped back to the Republicans and Mitt Romney, also in a tight election. So, to say that...
View ArticleThe war over wine, water and fuel in New York’s Finger Lakes
With the glut of natural gas from the fracking boom, the energy industry is digging deep for new ways to store it.There are already over 400 underground storage facilities across the US in places such...
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One of the six US immigrant Nobel winners is 'totally speechless' over the...
Princeton economist Atif Mian only tweets a few times a month, and most if it is the kind of dry policy stuff you'd expect from a man whose area of specialization is finance and debt, mixed with the...
View ArticleSamsung halts production of exploding phone due to explosions
Say goodbye to the Samsung Galaxy Note 7. Or better yet ... just say, boom!The phones have a tendency to catch fire and explode.Samsung tried to fix the problem. But it didn't work.So the South Korean...
View ArticleCholera spreads in Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew
The people of Haiti face a new terror, just days after Hurricane Matthew blasted the Caribbean nation: cholera.“Everyone is talking about this,” says The World’s Amy Bracken, in Dame Marie, in...
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Here’s why many young voters see climate change as THE issue in 2016
Eight years ago, I was in a presidential campaign field office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I thought 2008 would be the most important election of my lifetime.I was wrong.This year’s elections will have a...
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Figuring out why certain soils keep plant parasites at bay could be a boon...
Plants around the world are constantly under attack — often with big implications for humans.In the 1960s, millions of elm trees in Britain, France and the US fell victim to Dutch elm disease, which...
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World Health Organization warns global 'tuberculosis epidemic' is larger than...
The tuberculosis epidemic is larger than previously thought, infecting 10.4 million people last year, while research into vaccines and cures is "severely underfunded," the World Health Organization...
View ArticleAstronomers report there are 2 trillion galaxies in the 'observable' universe
There are a dizzying 2 trillion galaxies in the universe, up to 20 times more than previously thought, astronomers reported Thursday.The surprising find, based on 3-D modeling of images collected over...
View Article'Fact check' tags added to Google News
Google is adding "fact check" tags to news articles it indexes, introducing the feature amid a US presidential race roiled by heated disputes over the accuracy of information.The move was announced on...
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