The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) on Friday voiced support for President Trump's action this week to rescind a policy created under the Obama administration in 2010 designed to protect USA oc...

According to the zoo, Sumatran orangutans rarely live beyond the age of 50. "It's my absolute wish for her to be remembered for the handsome, independent lady that she was and I think it's an fantasti...

Secondly, the move may face some push-back from the Air Force , which now handles much of America's defensive capabilities pertaining to space . Americans first landed on the moon in 1969, reach...

In Florida alone, the "homes at risk by 2100 now contribute roughly $5 billion collectively in annual property tax revenue", said the report . Florida has the most to lose, according to the rese...

The rover is programmed to intermittently wake-up to check its battery levels but scientist are concerned it may take some time for it to reach a workable charge level. At most, it could endure for ...

Instead, we will now have a government for the people. "This will mean immediate relief at the pumps", said Ford, who has also promised to cut another 5.7 cents per litre with a reduction in the pro...

The votes were cast at the FIFA Congress in Moscow on Wednesday, June 13. Jacksonville was named among the initial candidates to host games in the 80-game competition, but the city was cut from the ...

Business owners in Los Cabos have been advised to to monitor the progress of Bud throughout the week. At least some peripheral impacts are possible near the coast from future Bud, even if the cente...

From the perspective of NASA's long-lived Opportunity rover on Mars , the sky is almost black in the middle of the day. The solar-powered rover has been in operation for almost 15 years - but if its ...

The crew members are also being greeted by family and friends who watched the docking and hatch opening from the Russian Mission Control Center outside Moscow. The Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft docked to t...

The three Earth-sized planets all have quite short orbits around their sun, with the longest orbit of one of the planets being completed in just 10.1 days. The name of the star is EPIC 211945201 or K2...

Martin participated in a public panel with Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde during the meeting of G7 finance ministers and centr...

The first observations of lightning on Jupiter were made in the 70s, more specifically, in 1979 when Voyager 1 caught some low-frequency radio waves coming from Jupiter, as Space.com reported . Jup...

Because the tracks are older than any known fossil of a legged animal, they are crucial for understanding how early animals evolved during the infant days of life on earth. There has always been an as...

We all are on the cutting edge of a global plastic calamity. Critics charge that Japanese consumers and retailers use too much plastic, as a mania for elaborate packaging results in nearly everythin...

A NASA robot has detected more building blocks for life on Mars - the most complex organic matter yet - from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. In...

The launch of a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the spacecraft took place at 14:12 p.m. local time (1112 GMT) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, it said in a statement. The 56th long-distanc...

Out at sea were the 20-metre yacht and inflatable boat, which will accompany him across the ocean. Lecomte told Reuters news agency that he plans to swim for eight hours and burn off more than 8,000...

The rover has also detected methane in the Martian atmosphere. NASA's Curiosity rover has found new science "results" on Mars and the agency will disclose the findings at a press conference that...

The huge number of these trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) makes it computationally intensive to model the evolution of their orbits. Sedna circles the sun at a distance of almost 8 billion miles and d...

Elon Musk's SpaceX announced back in February a year ago that, in late 2018, it would fly two paying space tourists around the Moon and back to Earth. There are also some concerns about the Falc...

MEMO POINTS TO DOE'S NATIONAL SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIESIn defense of prompt, alternative action by the department, the draft memo speaks of DOE's position on the NSC and its responsibility, under s...

This information was contained in newly published meeting papers from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Scientific Committee meeting held in Slovenia in May. Japan has hunted whales for centu...

Sustained winds from the season's first named storm had dropped to 45 miles per hour before coming ashore about 4:45 p.m. - down from 65 miles per hour Sunday night . Weakening is forecast over the n...

Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen explained during the release of the proposal though that a separate collection target for single-use bottles will indeed apply in 2025, equal to the "median ...

The plan announced Tuesday has several stages - construction will continue this year with a Federal loan guarantee as the deal is finalized; the government will look for a new owner or owners to t...

Construction will continue through the 2018 season and the federal government will sell it to one or more new owners when "appropriate". Steve Kean, chairman and chief executive of Kinder Morgan Ca...

Some areas could see up to 15 inches or rain. Hotels along the Emerald Coast were seeing some cancellations, but not many. Manatee residents should be ready for swaths of rain as Alberto moves n...

Al Smith, who drove the roughly 40 km from Beamsville, Ont., said it was a "smear campaign", and accused the Liberals of "playing with people's emotions rather than giving them the facts". "We will pu...

I hope he will bring new tactical ideas and spirit to Arsenal, and I hope he will succeed. "The formal recommendation to the board was supported by a 100-page dossier with references, analysis, vide...

United States spokespeople claim that the measures are aimed at preventing a "firesale" of the country's assets by corrupt officials looking for kickbacks. The EU had warned in April that it would c...

Will you be subscribing to YouTube Premium when it launches in Canada? The price for this service is $11.99 per month, and it includes YouTube Premium Music. What you want to focus on is YouTube ...

The UN Environment said: "The Scientific Assessment Panel of the Montreal Protocol , which includes the authors of the report , will finalise its quadrennial assessment by the end of the year and ...

Numerous first new hires at the facility will be call center workers. "As we do on many economic development efforts, the Governor's office worked closely with the legislature and other interested p...

Today, both AT&T and Verizon announced they will be carrying the RED Hydrogen One . It has a 5.7-inch screen that's created to offer a 4-View (4V) "holographic mode" which displays a "better th...