Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries.
“….Every bursting bubble sent up a puff of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas generated beneath the lake from the decay of plant debris. These plants last saw the light of day 30,000 years ago and have...
View ArticleRatings Agency Downgrade: Merkel Blasts Hollande as Spain Worries Increase
German Chancellor Angela Merkel made it clear on Thursday that she was not prepared to renegotiate the European Union fiscal pact as demanded by French presidential candidate Francois Hollande. Her...
View ArticleEurope Worries about Health Hazards of Cheap Food from China
In recent years, China has become a major food supplier to Europe. But the low-cost goods are grown in an environment rife with pesticides and antibiotics, disproportionately cited for contamination...
View ArticleSenate cybersecurity measure worries contractors
Critical Pentagon programs to protect classified data from cyberattackers and state-sponsored spies hang in the balance as lawmakers begin to confer on competing House and Senate defense authorization...
View ArticleWall Street ends lower on renewed Cyprus worries.
Stocks fell after Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who heads the Eurogroup of euro-zone finance ministers, told Reuters and the Financial Times that when failing banks need rescuing, euro-zone officials would turn...
View ArticleUS drone industry worries about privacy backlash
They want to cash in on non military domestic use. But both left and right fear for invasion of their privacy bertb news feed
View ArticleEmails show history of illness in Adam Lanza’s family, mother had worries...
Nancy Lanza’s emails, obtained by the Daily News, offer new insight in the family’s medical history. She feared Adam Lanza, who killed 26 in a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, would...
View ArticleClashes in Iraq Carry Worries of a New Civil War
According to the NYT, the group leading the new Sunni insurgency in Iraq is called the Men of the Army of the Naqshbandia Order or JRTN. They are said to be led by former Saddam Hussein loyalists and...
View ArticleAsian Stocks Slide Led by Tokyo on Worries
Abenomics, the unlimited printing of Yen to kickstart Japan’s economy, was a gamble at best and may turn out to be a catastrophe. The rest of the world is beginning to think so. bertb news feed
View ArticleBiotech industry worries over US court’s DNA ruling
The court ruled that Myriad Genetics, which sells expensive tests for the genetic markers for cancer, could not claim patents on the DNA it identified in the 1990s to develop the tests. bertb news feed
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