Unusual geese are showing up in Maine. Here’s where to look. 

It’s a great time for a wild goose chase. Insect-eaters are typically the first birds to skip town, migrating south. Seed-eaters linger a little longer. Waterfowl take their own sweet time. As long as there is food in an ice-free pond, ducks and...

Usha Vance was a secret adviser in high-stakes minerals deal with Ukraine

The 39-year-old second lady is a Yale Law graduate but has no experience in national security law Usha Vance was a secret adviser on a decisive minerals deal with Ukraine this year, Jonathan Karl, a White House chronicler, claims in his upcoming...

Have we reached peak Arctic Circle?

By Mia Bennett October 22, 2025 57 People often eagerly discuss the end of the Arctic. Yet realizing that the Arctic Circle Assembly may have peaked could hit a bit too close to home. This is a reproduction of an article that first appeared on...

A Nation At War

We are nine months into the Donald Trump presidency and the road ahead seems pretty clear. There is an unsustainable one trillion dollar Pentagon budget supporting a newly renamed Department of War and Washington is engaged in conflicts that could...

Sailor issues warning after uncovering shocking natural phenomenon: 'Will be very difficult to reverse'

"This is part of a trend." by Mandy CarrOctober 26, 2025 Tamara Klink became the second woman to sail through the Northwest Passage in September, something that would have been difficult to do only three decades ago unless you had an icebreaker...

Ferroptosis-Related Gene CRYAB in Asthma: Bioinformatics Identification and Experimental Validation

Introduction Asthma is a heterogeneous respiratory disease, generally classified into Type 2 (T2) and non-Type 2 (non-T2) subtypes, characterized by chest tightness, cough, wheezing, and shortness of breath, affecting approximately 1–18% of the...

We Know More About the Moon Than 60 percent of Earth’s Surface (16.10.2025)

Updated: 23.10.2025 (First published: 16.10.2025) The deep-sea research community at the University of Bergen (UiB) is now working to establish a national centre for deep-sea innovation. The centre will bring together researchers, technologists,...

Scientists Warn of Ice-Free Arctic Summers by Mid-Century

How is climate change influencing the Arctic climate and extreme weather? This is what a recent study published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how weather and climate...

American E-waste Causing 'Hidden Tsunami' in Southeast Asia, Report Says

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Millions of tons of discarded electronics from the United States are being shipped overseas, much of it to developing countries in Southeast Asia unprepared to safely handle hazardous waste, according to a new report by an...

The bombshell sea level study the climate elite would love to ignore

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a stranded polar bear atop a floating block of ice is shorthand for the narrative of catastrophic climate change. In the early 2000s, climate alarmists turned the blubbery, seal-munching predators into a...

Rare Earths: The Achilles Heel of the West

Introduction The United States' need for rare earths Europe's dependence on rare earths Conclusions Introduction In 1992, the leader of the Asian giant, Deng Xiaoping, commented: ‘The Middle East has oil, China has rare earths.’ At 88 years of...

Usha’s Secret Role at Heart of Top Trump Deal Exposed

Second Lady Usha Vance was a secret adviser on a high-stakes minerals deal with Ukraine this year, White House chronicler Jonathan Karl claims in a forthcoming book. The question of whether the February deal had been legally vetted emerged during...

Furious Don slaps 10% tariff hike on Canada in wake of anti-Trump ad after cancelling all talks

FUMING Donald Trump said he will slap a 10 per cent tariff hike on Canada over a petty anti-tariff ad campaign. Angered by the advert, which used a quote from former president Ronald Reagan to criticise his tariffs, Trump threatened to end trade...

EU to Cut Reliance on China Rare Earths

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Saturday that the European Union (EU) is developing a strategy to reduce its reliance on Chinese rare earths, following Beijing’s latest restrictions on the export of key minerals....

EU unveils rare earths plan in attempt to cut dependence on China

The EU is accelerating efforts to reduce reliance on China for rare earths by focusing on recycling, local production, and partnerships with countries like Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia. The European Union is stepping up efforts to reduce its...

Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – Managed Democracy?

16 Ocotber 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, October 16, 2025, and our friends, Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson, join us today. Welcome, Richard and Michael. ⁣MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be here. ⁣RICHARD WOLFF: Hello. ⁣NIMA...

Global warming pushes Earth’s tipping points toward critical thresholds

ISTANBUL Rising global temperatures are driving the planet’s tipping points toward critical thresholds that could trigger irreversible climate changes, according to Levent Kurnaz, director of Bogazici University’s Center for Climate Change and...

Climate scientist warns Earth's tipping points approaching collapse

Climate scientist Levent Kurnaz has issued a stark warning that global warming is pushing Earth's crucial environmental systems toward irreversible tipping points that could trigger catastrophic climate changes. The director of Boğaziçi...

Ancient sea levels warn of the dangers from today’s melting ice

In a major recheck of Earth’s past, a new study reports that global mean sea level shifted dramatically throughout the last Ice Age – not just at the end. The work reaches back 4.5 million years and reorganizes how scientists think about ice...

What Really Doomed Napoleon’s Army? Scientists Find New Clues in DNA

Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that were exhumed from their graves, worked scatological miracles, and drew inspiration from X-rays. First, a diagnosis 200 years in the making confirms, once again, that Napoleon’s...