An extremely rare shark attack in the Sea of Japan’s northwestern part has left a young man with chewed off arms. “A 25-year-old man was brought in in grave condition, unconscious. His arms were chewed off at the elbows,” reported the Interfax news agency Wednesday, quoting a source in a hospital in the Khasan district. [...]
The cry that cited iceberg ahead may have heralded the doom of the Titanic but it may just become a signal of hope for the world’s thirsty people. That is, if engineers and glaciologists are able to harness the frozen corners of the Earth’s flotillas of icebergs. The simulation made by a French team recently [...]
After thirteen months and several surgeries, this sea turtle is finally free. It was more than a year ago when this sea turtle was rescued with pneumonia and a collapsed lung. The spinal cord of the turtle was exposed by the holes in its shell which also allowed a crab and several pounds of sand [...]
If the claims made by a climatologist from the University of Alabama are true, then there appears to be a “huge discrepancy” between the actual levels of heat in the atmosphere and the global warming predictions. Dr. Roy Spencer, who was called “a prominent climate skeptic” by AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, claims that the [...]
News reports show the discovery of a massive space rock in northwest China’s remote and mountainous region. Reports show it could be one of the largest meteorites ever recovered. The Sky and Telescope Magazine reported that the rock, which was huge and shaped oddly, was found in the Altai Mountains in the Xinjiang Uygur province [...]
A media poll Sunday showed that the call of Prime Minister Naoto Kan to do away with nuclear power is being supported by more than two-thirds of Japanese which is evident of the growing opposition to atomic energy after the Fukushima Daiichi plant disaster. Kan said earlier this month that he was convinced by the [...]
A recent upsurge in graffiti has been noted not only along the buildings and highway billboards of San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles but also in the most unlikely places in the country. Scrawls have blossomed in modest-size communities across the country including Taylors, S.C., Reserve, N.M. and Florence, Ala. And larger cities like Portland [...]
The Japan Meteorological Agency said Japan regions already heavily damaged during the earthquake and tsunami last March were hit by a major earthquake Sunday which resulted to small tsunami waves in northern Japan’s Pacific coast. The Agency said the 7.3 magnitude earthquake which hit Honshu’s main island at 9:57 am, triggered four-inch tsunami waves in [...]
One of the hottest temperatures of the Earth may have been recorded in the 2000s but it paused for a bit because of the massive coal-burning in China which produced sulphur pollution in the air. Scientists said that while carbon dioxide is produced during coal-burning which in turn contributes to global warming, the sun’s rays [...]
The weekend box office has a new ruling superhero in the person of Ryan Reynolds aka Green Lantern. Green Lantern debuted at the top spot, albeit unremarkably at $52.7 million domestically plus $17 million in the Great Britain, Russia and other overseas markets where it opened. The Warner Brothers-released movie may have hit the top [...]
