 | 'Hurt Locker' Star to Help Raise Funds for Demining Afghanistan |
BAGRAM, Afghanistan, July 1, 2010 (ENS) - Actor Jeremy Renner, who played a bomb disposal expert in the Academy Award-winning 2009 war thriller "The Hurt Locker," was in Afghanistan this week to learn what the United Nations is doing to clear the country of landmines, the ultimate environmental hazard. "I'm here to be educated," he said, "and then educate people about an issue that can be solved with the proper levels of funding." >>more
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Hurricane Alex Spares Texas, Kills Eight in Mexico |
BROWNSVILLE, Texas, July 1, 2010 (ENS) - Hurricane Alex made landfall Wednesday night in northeastern Mexico as a Category Two storm, hammering residents of the Mexican Gulf coast and south Texas with heavy rain and winds. Landfall missed Brownsville, which lies in the Rio Grane Valley about 110 miles to the north, but flooding rains and gusty winds swept across the city. Highways and bridges were closed but have since reopened as crews work to pump water from flooded neighborhoods.
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Hurricane Alex Hampers Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup |
MIAMI, Florida, June 30, 2010 (ENS) - Roaring across the Caribbean and up into the Gulf of Mexico, Alex is the first hurricane of the 2010 season and the first June Atlantic hurricane since 1995, says the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm's center was located at 1 pm CDT Wednesday 130 miles south-southeast of Brownsville, Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border. About 500 miles away at the BP oil spill site, skimmers are not working, but oil is still being captured.
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Iraqi Energy Protests Grow |
By Khalid Waleed
BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 30, 2010 (ENS) - The interim Iraqi government is reeling from riots and demonstrations that have erupted across the country to protest severe electricity shortages, as summer temperatures soar. Anger has been growing for weeks over the continued power cuts and rising fuel prices, resulting from the demand for generators, and the stalled efforts to form a new government. >>more
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Ancient Fossils Show Arctic Now Near Climate Tipping Point |
BOULDER, Colorado, June 29, 2010 (ENS) - Current levels of Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about "irreversible" shifts in Arctic ecosystems, according to new research published today by scientists from the United States, Canada and The Netherlands. The Arctic climate is more sensitive to warming than previously known said the researchers, who gathered evidence on what is now Ellesmere Island from a time period 2.6 to 5.3 million years ago. >>more
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Obama's New Space Policy Peaceful But Guarded |
WASHINGTON, DC, June 28, 2010 (ENS) - President Barack Obama today unveiled his new national space policy, which focuses more on international cooperation, peaceful use of space and environmental sustainability than that of the previous administration. While President Bush's Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established a Pentagon infrastructure that critics feared would lead to the weaponization of space, President Obama today emphasized "peaceful cooperation." >>more
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