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Published time: 11 Sep, 2017 00:11 Scores of Environmental Protection Agency staff have been working to secure equipment and isolate hazardous materials at Florida’s 54 Superfund sites in the hours before Hurricane Irma made landfall – two weeks after similar sites were damaged by Hurricane Harvey. Read more Superfund sites are heavily contaminated former industrial […]
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The planet is facing a chronic shortage of minerals, in particular the range used in technological gadgets. Essential components found in smartphones, electric cars and even copper wiring are thinning out. The study by a team of international researchers, led by the University of Delaware, found demand will soon outstrip supply and initiatives such as […]
Published time: 25 Jun, 2017 01:22 Federal regulators are investigating an “absolutely unacceptable” violation of improper handling of nuclear material after the mislabeled cargo was sent on commercial cargo flights to two laboratories in the United States. Last week, unknown quantities of “special nuclear material” were sent from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico […]
Enlarge / In the future, parts from old iPhones could be used to build new ones. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Today Apple released its Environmental Responsibility Report (PDF) for the 2016 fiscal year, detailing the progress of the company’s environmental initiatives and laying out some of its goals for the future. Apple remains committed to reducing its […]
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(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, have expanded a long-running grand jury investigation into WikiLeaks to include the leak of Central Intelligence Agency documents to the website, a source familiar with the inquiry said. The source, who is familiar with the investigation and requested anonymity to discuss sensitive information, said the probe is focused […]
GETTY Philip Pullman is released a new trilogy set in the same world as His Dark Materials When is The Book of Dust released? The first book in the new trilogy will be released on Thursday October 19, 17 years after the last book in the His Dark Materials series, The Amber Spyglass. Its title […]
The first book in the new trilogy comes 17 years after the last book in the series, The Amber Spyglass. Pullman has revealed the new sets of novels are neither prequels or sequels, but “equels” set around the same time. Speaking with BBC Radio 4, he said: “It’s an equel. “It’s a different story which […]
