Sci/Tech News

February 18, 2020

German ex-environment minister seeks to lead Merkel's party

A former German environment minister on Tuesday became the first prominent figure officially to declare his candidacy for the ...

February 18, 2020

UK issues severe flood alerts as storm-swollen rivers surge

Residents in central England and Wales braced Tuesday for more flooding as rivers peaked in the wake of a weekend storm that ...

February 18, 2020

Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight climate change.

February 17, 2020

Hundreds still flooded from homes in Mississippi capital

The swollen Pearl River appeared to have crested Monday in Mississippi’s capital, but authorities warned the hundreds of ...

February 17, 2020

US House speaker Pelosi warns allies against using Huawei

No NATO ally should succumb to the temptation of letting Chinese tech giant Huawei into their next-generation cellular ...

February 17, 2020

Zuckerberg meets EU officials as bloc's new tech rules loom

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met top European Union officials on a visit to Brussels on Monday, days before the bloc is ...

February 16, 2020

German court halts site preparation for Tesla factory

A German court has temporarily halted the site preparation for Tesla Inc.'s first electric car factory in Europe. The Higher ...

February 16, 2020

Wales bears the brunt as Storm Dennis hammers Britain

Storm Dennis hammered Britain Sunday, bringing a month's worth of rain in just 48 hours to parts of South Wales, which bore ...

February 16, 2020

UN: Antarctic high temp records will take months to verify

Record high temperatures reportedly measured in Antarctica will take months to verify, the U.N. weather agency said Sunday.

February 16, 2020

US agency to pay for 11,000 miles of fuel breaks in 6 states

The Bureau of Land Management has announced plans to fund 11,000 miles (17,703 kilometers) of strategic fuel breaks in Idaho, ...

February 16, 2020

UK faces another fierce storm; 2 found dead in rough seas

Rescuers pulled two male bodies from rough seas off the coast of southeast England and military personnel mobilized to help ...

February 15, 2020

Shift to digital census raises fear of Iowa-like breakdown

The stakes are high when a major civic exercise involves a large population, new technology that has not been thoroughly ...

February 15, 2020

Freezing weather compounds crisis for displaced in Syria

A military offensive on an opposition-controlled region of northwestern Syria has created one of the worst catastrophes for ...

February 14, 2020

Bitter cold in Midwest, Northeast to ease during weekend

Bitterly cold temperatures persisted from the northern Plains to parts of the Great Lakes and northern New England, with ...

February 14, 2020

Delta says it will invest $1 billion to cut carbon emissions

Delta Air Lines said Friday it will invest $1 billion over the next 10 years in measures designed to offset climate-warming ...

February 14, 2020

3 employees suspended in $4M Puerto Rico online scam

Puerto Rico’s government said Friday that it suspended three employees as federal agents investigate an online scam that ...

February 14, 2020

Wind delays Northrop Grumman's supply run to space station

High wind delayed Northrop Grumman's supply run to the International Space Station on Friday. The weather was OK at the ...

February 14, 2020

2 Japanese businessmen charged in tech hardware price fixing

A grand jury charged two Japanese businessmen for their role in an alleged global conspiracy to fix prices for components ...

February 14, 2020

US's Pelosi urges countries to steer clear of Huawei for 5G

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appealed Friday to an audience in Germany for countries to steer clear of Chinese tech giant ...

February 14, 2020

Oregon landfill took 2M pounds of radioactive fracking waste

A chemical waste landfill near the Columbia River in Oregon accepted hundreds of tons of radioactive fracking waste from ...