Despite the summer heat, numerous natural disasters across the nation have chilled the authorities and local citizens - not just because if their innate threats, but due to the extending threats posed by their neighboring nuclear power plants. The almost record-breaking wildfire in Los Alamos, New Mexico has been raging dangerously close to the Los Alamos National Nuclear Laboratory, while record floods in Missouri threaten two nuclear plants in Nebraska.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jul 01, 2011
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, reprised her Tea Party credentials Monday as she formally announced her campaign for the presidency, repudiating the idea that government can address America's problems.
Jeremy White
Jun 27, 2011
Scientists from U.S. and UK have found that West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, the biggest in the region, is melting 50 percent faster than it was in 1994, increasing global sea levels at an alarming rate.
Kukil Bora
Jun 27, 2011
Michelle Obama arrives in Botswana.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 24, 2011
Floodwaters pouring out of the Souris River have already submerged homes and forced around 12,000 residents to flee as officials continued fortifying levees in Minot, North Dakota.
Jeremy White
Jun 23, 2011
In an article posted in the editorial of Rolling Stone magazine, Al Gore has come down heavily on President Barack Obama's approach in avoiding a climate crisis. Article titled, Climate of Denial: Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?, says President Obama has thus far failed to use the bully pulpit to make the case for bold action on climate change.
Amrutha Gayathri
Jun 23, 2011
Former Vice President Al Gore issued a scathing attack against the discourse surrounding climate change and criticized President Barack Obama for failing to take a stronger stance on the issue, in an essay Gore wrote for Rolling Stone magazine.
Jeremy White
Jun 22, 2011
Despite criticisms during his first term, the South Korean was unanimously voted in for a second time.
Daniel Tovrov
Jun 22, 2011
We take a look at Angelina Jolie, Michelle Obama, and Shakira, and their humanitarian efforts.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 21, 2011
They are the 10 best companies in the world harnessing alternative energies. This year’s winners of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy feature companies from UK, India, Pakistan and Africa.
Sanskrity Sinha
Jun 20, 2011
South Pacific island country once had 2nd highest per-capita GDP in the world; today, 90% are unemployed and most live on less than 100 dollars a week
Ellen Killoran
Jun 17, 2011
White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer defended the Obama administration's record today to a gathering of progressive bloggers that charged the president has reneged on his campaign promises.
Jeremy White
Jun 17, 2011
The sun may be heading for a rest period as the sunspot cycle seems to be fading and entering towards its maximum, and there are indications of weakening magnetic activity near the poles.
Manikandan Raman
Jun 16, 2011
The sun is most likely going into hibernation as the latest unusual solar readings, including fading sunspots and weakening magnetic activity near the poles suggest that we are headed towards a solar event that hasn't happened in hundreds of years, according to new data released Tuesday at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Jun 15, 2011
New data released Tuesday at the annual meeting of the solar physics division of the American Astronomical Society in Las Cruces, New Mexico, may suggest that we are headed towards a solar event that hasn’t happened in hundreds of years.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 14, 2011
Jon Huntsman, the former governor of Utah who until recently served as U.S. ambassador to China, is preparing to officially declare he is running for president on June 21, sources told the Associated Press.
Jeremy White
Jun 14, 2011
Some prominent American universities and pension funds, among other wealthy foreign investors, are allegedly purchasing huge tracts of land in Africa -- acts that may lead to the eviction of thousands of local farmers, according to a study by the Oakland Institute (Oakland Institute), a California-based think tank.
Palash Ghosh
Jun 08, 2011
Former South Korean Ban Ki-moon has asked for the support of UN Security Council for his candidacy for a second five-year term as U.N. secretary-general.
Kukil Bora
Jun 07, 2011
Twisters have swept across the U.S., killing 314 in Alabama, 134 in Missouri, and 4 so far in Massachusetts in the last couple of months. Why so many tornadoes?
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 02, 2011
Carbon output skyrocketed to its highest recorded level thanks to a five percent increase from 2009 to 2010, the International Energy Agency said.
Jeremy White
May 31, 2011
Energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2010 were the highest in history, according to the latest estimates by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Sanskrity Sinha
May 31, 2011
Food prices will double by 2030 worldwide with poor nations already struggling to feed their citizens, international charity group Oxfam said on Tuesday.
Sanskrity Sinha
May 31, 2011
