Tag: environment

U.S. News Health Care Index – US News http://www.usnews.com/news/health-care-index/articles/2015/05/07/us-news-health-care-index The new annual index measures health care’s changing impact on the U.S. economy. By Lindsey Cook,

The water still flows down from the shrinking shores of Hetch Hetchy to the sprinkler-fed lawns of San Francisco city parks. But after the fourth

Business Standard-Global decline of large herbivores may lead to empty landscape http://wap.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/global-decline-of-large-herbivores-may-lead-to-empty-landscape-115050300407_1.html The decline of the world’s large herbivores, especially in Southeast Asia, India and

The End of California? – NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-california.html?_r=0 ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — IN a normal year, no one in California looks twice at a neighbor’s lawn,

Why The Best Painting At The Guggenheim This Summer Was Made By A Third Grader http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/7138636 Modern Western education traditionally emphasizes two skills: the ability

Even hackers are concerned Obama’s and Clinton’s emails remain vulnerable | US news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/27/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-hacking-email-cyber-security Cybersecurity experts are increasingly concerned that both President

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/us/drought-widens-economic-divide-for-californians.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share COMPTON, Calif. — Alysia Thomas, a stay-at-home mother in this working-class city, tells her children to skip a bath on days when they do

The man who wants to control the weather with lasers – CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/24/tech/laser-cloud-seeding-mci/ (CNN)Is there anything laser can’t do? From cutting diamonds to preserving endangered

Navy researchers make bulletproof glass out of clay http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/24/navy-researchers-make-bulletproof-glass-out-of-clay/?ncid=rss_truncated The US Naval Research Laboratory announced a major breakthrough in materials science on Thursday. After decades

http://worldhappiness.report OVERVIEW The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness. The first report was published in 2012, the second in 2013, and the third on