New Zealand Earthquake Toll at 113 Dead, Over 200 Missing: It is one of New Zealand’s darkest moments as hundreds of troops, police and emergency workers raced against time and aftershocks that threatened to collapse more buildings.  Teams have rushed in from Australia, Asia, the U.S. and Britain, along with a military field hospital to […]

Earth Could be Unrecognizable by 2050, Experts Warn: A growing, more affluent population competing for ever scarcer resources could make for an “unrecognizable” world by 2050, researchers warned recently at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). More people, more money and more consumption, but the same planet warned scientists at AAAS.  They […]

Arkansas Cities Feel Unexplained Surge in Earthquakes: Jim Sutterfield was briefly puzzled by a thumping sound that seemed to slam the back of his office chair.  But when the small-town Arkansas fire chief turned and saw no one was around, he quickly realized it was an earthquake–again! The U.S. Geological Survey has reported more than […]