MIAMI — A man was rescued from his hydro pod bubble 70 nautical miles east of St. Augustine, Florida, by a Coast Guard search-and-rescue crew from Air Station Clearwater Saturday morning. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 7th District command center received a report of Reza Baluchi, a U.S. citizen, floating in an inflatable bubble Wednesday. Baluchi was […]
The atmospheric conditions associated with the unprecedented drought in California are very likely linked to human-caused climate change, researchers report. Climate scientist Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University and colleagues used a novel combination of computer simulations and statistical techniques to show that a persistent region of high atmospheric pressure over the Pacific Ocean–one that diverted […]
U.S. news outlets have revealed another major security breach involving the agency responsible for protecting President Barack Obama and his family. The reports say an armed guard for a private security firm got on an elevator with Obama during his visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the southeastern city of Atlanta […]
A contract employee at a suburban air traffic control center set fire to the facility with gasoline on Friday, brought air traffic to a standstill at O’Hare and Midway airports on Friday. The employee, angered that he was being transferred to Hawaii, deliberately set fire to the center stopping up to 1,500 flights at the two […]