Hundreds of people have been exonerated after confessing to crimes they didn’t commit. (Image: © Shutterstock) The confession has been called the king of evidence, as good as a conviction. And so it seems incredulous that innocent people would incriminate themselves by confessing to something they didn’t actually do. But […]
Scott Pruitt, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was widely criticized for barring researchers who received agency grants from serving on its science advisory panels. GAGE SKIDMORE/FLICKR (CC BY-SA 2.0) Originally published by E&E News Green groups have clocked a win against a controversial Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) policy […]
The proposed Migratory Bird Treaty Act doesn’t have the crucial clause that kept companies from killing vulnerable species. Birds like this could soon be left unprotected James Lee/Unsplash The Trump Administration just laid out their plans to gut one of the most important laws protecting birds in the United States. […]
Looking a bit like a bowl of spaghetti, this map shows the general scheme of the US stock market — formally known as the National Market System — as described by a team of scientist at the University of Vermont and The MITRE Corporation. Spread out between four communities in northern […]
Kiribati is one of six Pacific island nations most threatened by rising sea levels GETTY IMAGES People fleeing immediate danger due to the climate crisis cannot be forced to return home, the UN has said. The landmark ruling centres on the case of Ioane Teitiota, whose home – the Pacific […]
Community police patrol in the Mexican indigenous town of Cheran, which is practically an independent state won back by locals from illegal loggers and drug cartels When illegal logging turned their green, pine-covered hills into an ecological wasteland, the people of the Mexican indigenous town of Cheran decided to arm […]
Email exchanges show senior employees and Flint officials knew the tap water was poisoned with lead months before the city alerted residents. PHOTOGRAPH: GEOFF ROBINS/GETTY IMAGES This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Executives at one of the world’s largest utilities companies knew that families in […]
Jimi Hendrix was wrongly blamed for the parakeet explosion after releasing two birds in Carnaby Street, London GOLDSMITHS/GETTY The rumour parakeets arrived in the UK when rock star Jimi Hendrix released a pair in London’s Carnaby Street in the swinging 60s has finally been scotched. They also didn’t escape across […]
Norwegian oil executive Arne Sigve Nylund says that at term, the new oil field will account for more than one quarter of total output from Norway’s continental shelf Under yellow metal legs stretching beneath the sea, billions of dollars lie buried. As the world tries hard to halt global warming, […]
Not all blueberries are the same. A variety called Ridley 1111 is at the centre of an important lawsuit for intellectual property and plants. Shutterstock A few weeks ago, the Federal Court of Australia ordered a farmer in New South Wales to pay A$290,000 to a blueberry-producing company because he had grown […]