By JEREMY PELZER Star-Tribune capital bureau23 February 2012 CHEYENNE – State Rep. David Miller, R-Riverton, has seen the national debt rise above $15 trillion and protest movements grow around the country. Wealthy Americans are fleeing the country, he says, and confidence in the dollar has taken a hit around the world. If America’s economic and […]
24 February 2012 (BBC) – Ongoing dry weather over the spring and summer threatens to place more areas of England in a state of drought, the Environment Agency (EA) has warned [pdf]. It singled out parts of western, central and south western England and parts of south east Yorkshire. The agency said time was running […]
By INGFEI CHEN27 February 2012 MONTEREY, California – On a fog-shrouded morning in Monterey Bay, wildlife researchers are out to capture a southern sea otter named Blanca — part of a three-year project to learn why her species, hunted to near extinction a century ago, is still in trouble here despite decades of efforts to […]
By Patrick Thibodeau, pthibodeau@computerworld.com 1 March 2012 Scientists expect that climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, and last fall’s flooding in Thailand fit the definition of extreme. The floods were one the world’s most costly disasters in recent times, and it had a major effect on hard disk drive […]
