U.S. Estimates 1.4 Million Ebola Cases in Worst Scenario | Kelly Gilblom and Caroline Chen

Ebola virus. Photo credit: NPR Sept. 23, 2014 (Bloomberg) -- Without better containment of the Ebola outbreak, there may be 550,000 to 1.4 million cases in Liberia and Sierra Leone by January, accord ...

Ebola Worst-Case Scenario Has More Than 500,000 Cases | Caroline Chen, Brendan Greeley and Kelly Gilblom

Ebola virus Sept. 20, 2014 (Bloomberg) -- The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could spread to hundreds of thousands more people by the end of January, according to an estimate under development by the ...

The Earth Baked in Record Fashion This Summer | Brian K. Sullivan

Sept. 19, 2014 -- According to the National Climatic Data Center, the Earth had its warmest June through August on record, Bloomberg News reports. The combined land and ocean temperature for the glob ...

Pakistan TV Exposes bin Laden Killing Hoax and Documentary Exposes 9/11 Official Story | Paul Craig Roberts

Oct. 16, 2014 (PaulCraigRoberts.org) -- Original Bashir interview that contradicts Washington’s account of killing bin Laden A website in the UK, themindrenewed.com, that downloaded the video from th ...

'Inhospitable Oceans' Acidifying at Rate Unseen in 250 Million Years (or Ever) | Jon Queally

New study shows oceans in peril as acidification is happening at rate perhaps never seen in planet's history (Photo: 'Rough Ocean'/Flickr/Jacqueline Fasser) Aug. 26, 2013 (Common Dreams) -- In both a ...

International Alarms Go Up as Fukushima Alert Level Raised | Jon Queally

Regulators acknowledge that crisis is worsening amid constant flow of bad news at crippled nuclear plant Water woes: Workers stand atop a tank for highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nucl ...

News From The Forbidden Zone Is Alarmingly Bad (Fukushima) | Ana Miller and Greg Laden

News from Fukushima Update # 69 Aug. 24, 2013 (ScienceBlogs) -- Over the last several weeks we’ve heard repeated, alarming, and generally worsening, news from Fukushima Diachi, the Japanese nuclear p ...

The Pain of Bangladesh: T-shirts Made with Blood and Tears | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 8, 2013 As they spoke to a BBC correspondent in their run-down room which they call home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a man sobbed as his 12-year-old daughter sat close ...

Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says | Alex Morales

Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won’t do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures, which are set to rise by about double the United Nations target of 2 degrees Celsiu ...

The N.Y. Times Imagines Post-Sandy Looters | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. (Lesson: Don’t get used to the media love) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 12, 2012 "The revolution will not be objectively reported." - Richie Alexandro, "Meet Me at Zucco ...

Occupy Freedom and Vigilance (post-Sandy) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 6, 2012 “Free speech? Try it and the police will be there with their horses, their clubs, their guns, to stop you.” - Howard Zinn I was stan ...