The UK targets WhatsApp encryption after London attack
The British government said Sunday that its security services must have access to encrypted messaging applications such as WhatsApp, revealing it was used by the killer behind the parliament...
View ArticleBefore plate tectonics, the Earth may have been covered by one giant shell
The Earth’s outer layer is split into slabs, called tectonic plates. As the plates slide across the Earth’s surface, their constant, often violent interactions with one another create volcanoes,...
View ArticleAutomakers are pushing to reverse fuel efficiency gains
Shortly after Scott Pruitt was sworn in as the new EPA administrator, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers sent him a letter requesting that the agency re-examine new fuel economy standards set to...
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Green homes in Buffalo are keeping poor people warm. But Trump’s budget could...
When you’re poor, you have to make tough choices.“I couldn’t afford to pay my heat bill. My gas got turned off,” says Bob Cook, who lost his $30,000-a-year job a few years back while working in the...
View ArticleTrump is ending Obama-era emissions cuts. How will CO2 emissions change?
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday rolled back a slew of environmental protections enacted by Barack Obama, in a bid to untether the fossil fuel industry.In a maiden trip to the Environmental...
View ArticleFormer UN climate chief: Trump's energy order not 'a big deal' for climate...
The former head of United Nations climate negotiations says the Trump administration executive order rolling back energy regulations won’t derail the landmark Paris climate change agreement.Christiana...
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Buffalo used to be a city filled with millionaires. It plans to get rich...
It’s easy to pick on Buffalo: It’s cold, it’s snowy, the economy has been in the dumps for four decades, and the Bills lost four straight Super Bowls. (Just sayin’.)But around the turn of the 20th...
View ArticleTwo US coal miners, two very different perspectives on the future of coal
President Donald Trump this week surrounded himself with coal miners when he signed his executive order blocking, reversing or ordering the review of several Obama-era initiatives to limit climate...
View ArticleIsrael teaches cybersecurity skills to its high schoolers
The Israeli military did not allow photos that would identify the 10th-grade students hunched over laptops in a darkened classroom last month.That’s because when they graduate, about half of them will...
View ArticleAmerican astronaut Peggy Whitson just broke a world record
American astronaut Peggy Whitson made history when she floated outside the International Space Station on Thursday, breaking the record for the most spacewalks by a woman.Whitson, 57, is making her...
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Here's a new climate change reality that Trump's new policies ignore
President Donald Trump may be trying to scrub his predecessor's initiatives to fight climate change from just about every corner of the federal government — Exhibit A being this week’s executive order...
View ArticleTrump's gamble: Mexico could actually gain more from a NAFTA redo
When President Donald Trump talks about Mexico taking advantage of NAFTA to rip off the US — and he brings this up a lot— people like Fernando Turner can’t believe what they’re hearing.“We appreciate...
View ArticleNebraska farmers are relying on Ukrainian hackers to fix their tractors
Kyle Schwarting and his family have been farming in Nebraska for generations. Until a few years ago, Schwarting and other farmers could fix and upgrade their own large farm equipment, including...
View ArticlePresident Trump, how will you meet the Paris climate commitments while...
Over President Donald Trump's first 100 days, we're asking him questions that our audience wants answers to. Join the project by tweeting this question to @realDonaldTrump with the hashtag...
View ArticleThe death toll from southern Colombia mudslides is rising fast
Mudslides have killed 112 people, injured 180 and left up to 200 missing after destroying homes in southern Colombia, the Red Cross and officials said Saturday.The surge swept away houses, bridges,...
View ArticleHimalayan glaciers are granted 'rights of human beings' for protection
An Indian court has recognized Himalayan glaciers, lakes and forests as "legal persons" in an effort to curb environmental destruction, weeks after it granted similar status to the country's two most...
View ArticleSatellites are destined to become space junk. But in the future, we may be...
The mid-March blizzard that blanketed parts of the Northeast in several feet of snow may have been a freaky turn of weather, but it didn’t take us by surprise, thanks to the "eagle eyes" of...
View ArticleDoes the idea of a self-driving ambulance freak you out?
Would you want a ride to the hospital in a self-driving ambulance?If you caught yourself hesitating, you’re not alone. Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting pollutants pose a larger threat to public health than...
New research suggests that when it comes to air pollution, what goes around comes around.Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — toxic air pollutants produced by fuel combustion — are typically treated as a...
View ArticlePresident Trump, why are scientists finding their research suddenly being...
Over President Donald Trump's first 100 days, we're asking him questions that our audience wants answers to. Join the project by tweeting this question to @realDonaldTrump with the hashtag...
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