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San Jose looks to tap into residents’ private surveillance cameras for police use http://rt.com/usa/san-jose-surveillance-camera-police-381...

Toxic Mercury Pollution May Rise with Arctic Meltdown http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=toxic-mercury-pollution-may-rise-wit...

Anti-NSA Blackphone: Encrypted smartphone designed to liberate users from total surveillance http://rt.com/news/security-encrypted-smartpho...

by Katia Aparecida Pessoa Conde, Eliezer Silva, Carla Oliveira Silva, Elaine Ferreira, Flavio Geraldo Rezende Freitas, Isac Castro, Alvaro R...

Israel has been consumed in recent months with the challenge of integrating the insular, swelling ultra-Orthodox minority, known as Haredim,...

Brussels (AFP) June 06, 2013 The European Union on Thursday closed a last loophole in its ban on shark finning, the long-contested pract...

James Clapper said the leak of details of the country's domestic phone monitoring programme could cause "long-lasting and irreversi...

Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 07, 2013 Decades of drought in central Africa reached their worst point in the 1980s, causing Lake Chad, a shallow ...

There are too many immigrants in France, former prime minister Francois Fillon has said, insisting that the country cannot cope with everyon...

Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jun 07, 2013 Increases in temperature as a result of climate change are mirrored in lake waters where temperat...

Paris (AFP) June 06, 2013 Around 9.19 million people in China had dementia in 2010, compared with 3.68 million 20 years earlier, accordi...

(Reuters) - American wheat farmers and a food safety advocacy group filed a lawsuit Thursday against biotech seed developer Monsanto Co, acc...

With rising concern about ocean degradation and the sustainable use of ocean resources, small island states must build scientific expertise ...

ATHENS, Greece—Unemployment in recession-mired Greece continued its record-setting rise in March, reaching 26.8 percent of the workforce com...

Whenever I see a documentary on the holocaust, I ask how such a thing could happen over a six-year period between 1939 and 1945, apparently ...

While in Rio recently (for the International Symposium on Pterosaurs: see write-up here ), I saw an enormous number of birds, virtually all...

With all the talk of honey bee decline in the news , you may already know that honey bees don't just make honey. They also give us almo...

by Fangxia Shen, Maosheng Yao In this study, the bacterial and fungal abundances, diversities, conductance levels as well as total organic...

See the Norwegian navy blow up one of its own ships to test out their latest long-range missile capabilities.

No dia 7 de junho de 1494, as potências da época, Portugal e Espanha, assinaram o Tratado de Tordesilhas, dividindo o mundo em duas metades.

Dear EarthTalk : Now that hot weather is coming, I want to upgrade my home’s A-C. Which are the most energy-saving models and should I go ...

The Justice Department survey, which polled group homes and jails for troubled youths, found that the teens were most often victimized by st...

Economic policy secretary says ‘investors’ confidence . . . can be measured by events in market’ and points out growth has exceeded global a...

The latest press release from the facility reported the rise in the number of inmates receiving enteral feeds, up from the previous 39. The...

A solar power project in Buenos Aires is providing electricity for some of the city's poorest households. Volunteers are hoping to creat...

The Elbe's high waters are flowing downstream into the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, with water levels topping 2002 highs in Magdeburg...

The tests would be voluntary and comprise two stages. The first is a written psychological test, followed by medical checks to find traces o...

Commentary: In the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal, Barack Obama's credibility is under scrutiny like never before, writes Peter Fo...

On the tropical island of Borneo, some of the most spectacular caves in the world also hold a piece of an ongoing climate puzzle. [More]

El líder del gremio de Pemex, Carlos Romero Deschamps, dijo que los trabajadores no se sirven de la paraestatal, sino que sirven a ésta.

IBM is conducting research that involves making use of the open JVM (Java Virtual Machine) in a cloud-based setting as a way to provide dyna...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police rounded up 300 people at a Muslim prayer room in Moscow on Friday after President Vladimir Putin ordered a...

La Suisse a pris part vendredi à un comité mixte sur l'espace Schengen, tenu en marge d'une réunion des ministres européens de l...

Sweeping up U.S. phone records and monitoring Internet activity from overseas can help disrupt terrorists, President Obama says. FULL STORY

French gendarmes will be posted on the upper slopes of Mont Blanc for the first time this weekend to stop the place turning into an open-air...