The Animal Story: Humans continue to kill life on Planet Earth
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Stephen Hawking: The Grand Design Published
GOD IS NOT NEEDED FOR CREATION British physicist and mathematician Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe. The concept is explored in “The Grand Design,” excerpts of which were printed in the British newspaper The Times on Thursday. The book,…
OIL Disaster: Devastation to Ecosystem Years to come
I first spoke to Rick Steiner more than three months ago — about two weeks into the Deepwater Horizon disaster — after a source recommended I talk to him for I was writing about the spill as a teachable moment. Steiner is a marine conservationist and activist in Alaska who started studying oil spills when…
Russian Fires Threaten Nuclear Sites
The deadly fires have exposed a key problem in today’s Russia: No one knows what’s going on. Russia fought a deadly battle Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites as alarm mounted over the impact on health of a toxic smoke cloud shrouded over Moscow. Two soldiers were killed by blazing trees as…