Rhodilee Dolor

About 30 elders were arrested as demonstrators protested the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, which was slated to start on Monday.

Saving New York City and other coastal areas from sea level rise caused by global warming could involve generating trillions of tons of additional snowfall by pumping ocean water onto glaciers and distributing the snow over West Africa using snow cannons.

The MODIS intrument onboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured a visible image of the tropical depression Danas, which is now affecting several regions in the Philippines.

SpaceX's Starhopper spacecraft was engulfed by a fireball shortly after the static fire ignition. The vehicle is a prototype of the Starship Mars vehicle, which could bring humans to planet Mars and the moon in the future. 

A recently-discovered species of tree in Tanzania may be short-lived because of its immediate classification as endangered. While the tree grows up to 20 meters tall and bears white flowers, its restricted range makes climate change and other elements a threat to its existence.

Schmidt has been linked to a series of young women in recent years, but he does not seem keen to divorce Wendy even though they now live separate lives. 

Modern talapoins can only be found in West Central Africa and are confined to tropical forests. The Nanopithecus browni was found in Kenya and lived in a dry habitat covered with open forests and grasslands.

Adau Mornyang, 25, is a native of South Sudan who migrated to Australia as a refugee when she was 10 years old. In 2017, she streamed an hour-long live video on Facebook during which she spoke up about being raped as a teenager but pressured not to press charges. 

Silica aerogel sheets can make Mars warmer and more habitable by mimicking the greenhouse effect. On Earth, greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide cause global warming by trapping energy from the sun.

Soon after the call, Esho said he saw that a helicopter, fire boats and the Chicago police have already arrived to rescue him. He now credits his second chance at life to his Apple Watch, which helped him connect to emergency number.

The Aquilarhinus has lower jaws that meet in an odd W-shape that creates a wide, flattened scoop. Its jaw and characteristics do not fit with those of the main group of duck-billed dinosaurs.

Roughly half of both the oil output and gas output in the Gulf is shut in because of Barry, but the United States no longer depends on the region for its supply of oil and gas as it did a dozen years ago. 

Crops that are grown in space are ideally easily pollinated and can survive in a high carbon dioxide environment. NASA researchers also want plant varieties that do not grow tall, but tend to be very productive in the controlled environment that they would use in space. 

The animal rescue group PAWS of Hawaii showed heartbreaking pictures of the injured animal on Facebook. The dog was severely swollen, covered in sunburn and missing 90 percent of its fur.

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who were studying the dinosaur’s fossil found the nearly complete lizard on the creature’s stomach. It appears the dinosaur swallowed the lizard whole, head first. 

Scientists were trying to confirm that the accretion disk does not exist below certain luminosities, but they found a disk normally seen in objects that are 1,000 or even 100,000 times more luminous. 

The Type 45 frigate HMS Duncan will sail to the Gulf within the next week to join HMS Montrose, after it has completed a NATO exercise in the Black Sea.

William Gerstenmaier has been assigned to take on a new role as special adviser to NASA Deputy Administrator Jim Morhard, a position that is something of a demotion for Gerstenmaier, who has been with NASA since 1977. 

The eviction happened just 20 days after the Jerusalem District Court dismissed the Siyam family’s appeal to remain in their house. The court ruled that the Elad Association legally owns majority of the building.

Gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries are up to a million times louder than those previously detected by LIGO. The gravitational waves the two black holes generate prior to collision already dwarf those previously detected from the collision of small black holes and neutron stars.  

Hayabusa 2 will collect samples from beneath the surface of asteroid Ryugu, which contain rubble left over from the birth of planets. JAXA said the samples may contain water and organic materials.

Eco-friendly straws have become increasingly popular in recent years as people shun single-use plastic straws to fight against plastic pollution, but use of metal straws comes with potential risks.

An unnamed policy research director at the Institute of American Studies of North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs slammed South Korean authorities for talking about reconciliation and cooperation while acquiring more weapons from the United States.

The 2013-14 eastern South America drought was one of the worst the region has experienced in many years. Researchers found that it began with strong atmospheric convection half the world away over the Indian Ocean.

Walmart is now using virtual reality headsets to find out which set of its employees has the aptitude to take on managerial roles. The VR skills assessment is part of the company’s selection process to find new middle managers.

Rep. Ilhan Omar called Tucker Carlson a “racist fool” after the Fox Host attacked her on his show. Social media is now rife with comments saying Carlson should be fired.

The number of immigrants who cross into the Southwest United States tends to dip in the hot summer months, but acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said that there is more to the decline than the seasonal trend in migrations. 

The current carbon accumulation could lead to extreme acidification of the ocean, similar to the kind that contributed to the Permian–Triassic mass extinction that happened about 250 million years ago.

Amal Clooney together with Caoilfhionn Gallagher will look into how they could protect Ressa and Rappler under international law, while she is currently facing the Philippine courts.