D.C. resident John Lockwood was conducting research at the Library of Congress and came across an intriguing Page 2 headline in the NOV. 2, 1922 EDITION OF THE WASHINGTON POST: "ARCTIC OCEAN GETTING WARM; SEALS VANISH AND ICEBERGS MELT."
The US government is on a 'burning platform' of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country's top government inspector has warned.
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter is headed to the Arctic this week on a mapping mission to determine whether part of this area can be considered U.S. territory, after recent polar forays by Russia and Canada.
A plague of field voles in central Spain has led the authorities to resort to controlled burning of fields.
Flooding caused by heavy rain has left hundreds of people dead or missing in North Korea, state media has reported.
Massive rains in southern Germany and Switzerland have caused hundreds of millions of euros' worth of damage, stopped ship traffic on the Rhine and killed one person in Germany.
I'M TOLD, IN THE LAST MONTH IN ZIMBABWE, "CONDITIONS HAVE GONE FROM DIFFICULT TO IMPOSSIBLE. "
Dollar assets form an important part of its foreign exchange reserves and the U.S. currency plays a prominent role in the global monetary system, China's central bank said Sunday.
In the Spectator, Irwin Stelzer attacks Gordon Brown for supporting the foreign policy provisions in the revised Constitution.
Why the EU Emissions Trading Scheme isn't working'
A top seismologist is warning that another major earthquake is in our future, a big one that could devastate Southern California, from the desert to the sea.
China announced on Friday that its Moon probe project has entered the launching phase, and the satellite and the carrier rocket are ready for launch.
After days of unbroken sunshine and scorching temperatures, it appeared the rain had gone for good and summer had belatedly arrived in Britain at last.
Iraq's Prime Minister, Nouri Maliki, has called for a summit of the nation's main political factions in an attempt to break Iraq's political paralysis.