The number of major Atlantic hurricanes per year may almost double by the end of the century in response to global warming, according to a new study.
A team of hurricane researchers suggests that damage from a larger number of very strong — Category 4 and 5 — hurricanes is likely to outweigh a projected decline in less-intense storms
Read more: Nature
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Tehran to work constructively to allay Western fears over its nuclear program but said world powers should take a sober approach and beware of pushing Iran into a corner.
“If our logic is to punish Iran, or if we take up the posture of the offended … this will not be a sober approach,” Lavrov told reporters at a news briefing
Read more: Reuters
ELYRIA, Ohio — President Obama, striking a no-retreat, no-surrender posture in the wake of his party’s humiliating defeat in the Massachusetts Senate race this week, vowed Friday to press on with his expansive domestic agenda — including a health care overhaul and tough new restrictions on banks — even if it meant he had to “take my lumps” from political critics
Read more: NY Times
The UK terror threat level is being raised from “substantial” to “severe”, Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said.
The new alert level means a terrorist attack is considered “highly likely”. It had stood at substantial since July.
Read more: BBC
Poll finds 56% of all Americans and 58% of those 18-29 years old say abortion ‘morally wrong’
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On the eve of the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion throughout the United States, a new survey shows a strong majority of Americans believe abortion to be “morally wrong
Read more: PRNewswire
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Dr Rajendra Pachauri dismissed calls for him to resign over the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change’s retraction of a prediction that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.
But he admitted that there may have been other errors in the same section of the report, and said that he was considering whether to take action against those responsible
Read more: Times Online
Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors overwhelmingly see President Barack Obama as anti-business and question his ability to manage a financial crisis, according to a Bloomberg survey.
The global quarterly poll of investors and analysts who are Bloomberg subscribers finds that 77 percent of U.S. respondents believe Obama is too anti-business and four-out-of-five are only somewhat confident or not confident of his ability to handle a financial emergency
Read more: Bloomberg
Stocks extended their losing streak for a third day Friday, dropping the Dow into negative territory for the year, as President Obama’s proposed new restrictions on the financial industry continued to ripple through the market
Read more: CNBC
The U.S. has begun preparing Guantanamo Bay for Haitians migrants in case of a mass exodus spurred by the earthquake.
Officials confirmed that about 100 tents, each capable of holding 10 people, have been erected already
Read more: Daily Mail
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