Time.com – Hurricanes and other tropical storms are given names to make it easy for the public to know which particular storm warnings or news reports to follow. It’s especially important in busy hurricane seasons that see multiple storms at the same time
Reuters – Hurricane Earl followed a path toward the U.S. East Coast on Tuesday as the powerful storm pulled away from northeastern Caribbean islands it had pounded with winds and rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
AP – Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines.
AP – Storms were forecast to continue moving through the northern U.S. on Tuesday, while tropical storm activity remained high in the Atlantic Ocean.
AP – Power utilities are trying to buy the next wave of nuclear reactors much like a consumer buys a light bulb: right off the shelf.
AFP – Rajendra Pachauri, under harsh scrutiny as head of the UN’s top advisory body on climate change, is a 69-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner with a sideline in writing steamy novels.
AFP – Indonesia has demanded 2.4 billion dollars in compensation from a Thai oil company for damages related to a spill off the northwestern coast of Australia last year, a minister said Tuesday.
AFP – European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton was in China Tuesday ahead of talks with top leaders on trade, climate change and security issues such as the Iran and North Korea nuclear standoffs.
SPACE.com – Plans
for sending humans to visit an asteroid are heating up, with at least
one company already scoping out the technological essentials for a deep space expedition
within a decade, given the go-ahead.
SPACE.com – WASHINGTON — A propulsion system glitch aboard the U.S. Air
Force’s first Advanced Extremely High Frequency secure communications satellite
has forced the service to devise a new orbit-raising plan utilizing smaller
thrusters that will delay the craft’s arrival at its operating orbit by six
months to seven months, according to a service official.
