The Pope huddles with mayors to tackle climate change
Pope Francis convened a two-day conference with sixty mayors from around the world to discuss what actions can be taken on a city-wide basis to combat climate change.
Forty years ago: Apollo and Soyuz link up androgynously in orbit
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), conducted 40 years ago in July 1975, was the first joint U.S.-Soviet space flight.
Decline of Earth's plant life threatens human life
The destruction of the total biomass of the planet is fueled by the immense profits available under capitalism for the private exploitation of natural resources.
After nine-year star trek, NASA spacecraft passes Pluto
Applause erupted at NASA's New Horizons control center in the wake of the eponymous spacecraft's flyby of Pluto.
Capitalism the culprit in the Sixth Extinction
If life on earth is to survive then we must reorient the means by which we survive currently toward keeping a balance with nature.
