The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) just released figures for July’s arctic sea ice averages. The bad news: Last month’s average arctic sea ice extent is the second-greatest loss of summer sea ice since satellite tracking began in 1979.
One or two hundred years from now, I can't help but think historians will think of this as an axial age of global health. Looking at the big picture, progress against common and deadly disease is the single most important story of our era.
While we once assumed that warmer water meant more cholera – a grim portent of widespread cholera in a future of climate change – it seems that instead cholera has a complicated relationship with river flows.
The computer security firm McAfee released a bombshell report today alleging evidence of a widespread hacking operation. The United Nations was one of 70 targets, which included defense contractors, governments, think tanks, and Olympic Committees.