The red is a thermal radius.
North Korea’s aiming their test missile near Hawaii. The US military says they can protect the islands, and locals aren’t too worried, but if something happens, the thermal, shockwave and radioactive fallout will look something like this.
 

An aerial view of a patch of deforested jungle
More than 800 animal and plant species have gone extinct in the past five centuries with nearly 17,000 now threatened with extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported on Thursday.
 
 

According to study, shampoo destroys brain cells
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh say that a common chemical found in Shampoo and hand lotions, Methylisothiazoline, destroys brain cells and is a risk to unborn babies.
 
 

Here swiney swiney!

Throwing “swine flu parties” in an attempt to get immunity against the virus while it is a fairly mild form is not a good idea, doctors say. Reports have emerged of people intentionally mixing with friends who have flu.
Their reasoning is that it is best to be infected before the winter when the [...]

A boy drinking water from a borehole in Zimbabwe 
In this months PLoS Medicine Editorial, the editors argue that — despite recent international objections — access to clean water should be recognised as a human right.

 
Since everything we do costs money I am not surprised at this crazy scheme
Two cable powerhouses have announced an ambitious pilot program that aims to convince their customers that, actually, TV on the web should not be free.

 
Animals all around the globe are dying from fibropapillomatosis,
a disease that causes tumors on the skin
While cancer touches the lives of many humans, it is also a major threat to wild animal populations as well, according to a recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

Is This a Horrible or Fantastic Idea?

Luxury ocean liners in Russia are offering pirate hunting cruises aboard armed private yachts off the Somali coast.
Wealthy punters pay £3,500 per day to patrol the most dangerous waters in the world hoping to be attacked by raiders.

Tiny teenager: Despite being just 2ft tall and weighs 10lbs, Khagendra
cannot claim the title of smallest man until he turns 18 in October this year
“At just two-feet-tall, Khagendra Thapa Magar is just four months away from being named the world’s smallest man. Excitedly awaiting his 18th birthday in October of this year, Khagendra and his [...]

Cow burps are responsible for nearly three-quarters of methane emissions  
A prototype cow which burps less is being bred in a breakthrough that could reduce a big source of the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.

Pet bites can cause potentially fatal MRSA infection 
Pet owners are at an increased risk of getting infected with the potentially fatal MRSA infection through dogs and cats, say researchers.
Dr. Richard Oehler, of the University of South Florida, says that MRSA and skin infections in dogs and cats can be spread to humans through bites.

Even though three quarters of our planet is considered water, there is still a demand for it in almost every community, and a scarcity in many. That’s because we can actually only use one to two percent of if this wonderful H2O.
With so many items that are now more available, like low-flow showerheads, faucet aerators, rain [...]

 
Sagebrush exhibits communication only when air contact is allowed
To thine own self be true” may take on a new meaning—not with people or animal behavior but with plant behavior.

Tobacco companies made changes without informing consumers 
As President Obama prepares to sign a bill giving the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of the tobacco industry, a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers shows that tobacco manufacturers have continually changed the ingredients and the design of their cigarettes over time, even [...]

Poor children in Ethiopia
World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1,020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

 
Sport hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations as managers respond to demands to control predators that threaten livestock and humans.
Sport hunters are depleting lion and cougar populations as managers respond to demands to control predators that threaten livestock and humans, according to a study published in the June 17 issue of PLoS One. The [...]

 
E. coli bacteria
Bacteria can anticipate a future event and prepare for it, according to new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. In a paper that appeared June 17 in Nature, Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel, doctoral student Amir Mitchell and research associate Dr. Orna Dahan of the Institute’s Molecular Genetics Department, together with Prof. Martin Kupiec [...]

Scientists working to develop wheat varieties resistant to a strain of “stem rust” 
The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world’s wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S.

Microwaves harmful to unborn baby 
It is hard to believe but true that the microwave oven you use to make food could be harmful to your unborn child, especially when the device is old or is wrongly used. Tests have shown that microwaves emit harmful electromagnetic radiation which could harm embryos and could lead to miscarriage.

‘Shrink to Survive’ – Entire Neighborhoods In U.S. To Be Bulldozed
Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.  
The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing [...]

Everything is bigger in Texas maybe even the earthquakes
The earth moved here on June 2. It was the first recorded earthquake in this Texas town’s 140-year history – but not the last.
There have been four small earthquakes since, none with a magnitude greater than 2.8. The most recent ones came Tuesday night, just as the [...]

The possibility of Air France Flight 447 breaking up in midair is just plain scary
Air France Flight 447 may have broken apart in the air, new reports indicate.
A Brazilian newspaper cites unnamed investigators who say an examination of some of the retrieved bodies, which were found as far as 85 miles apart, indicates that the [...]

Permanent Hair Does Not Need Combing 

A British firm is taking a disturbingly permanent solution to hair loss to the US.
Birmingham based HiStyl uses what it describes as “a mild form of medical tattooing” to simulate the look of shaved or closely cropped hair. The company has announced that representatives will travel to San Francisco and Florida [...]

Exessive laptop use can lower sperm count 
Excessive laptop use may impact men’s ability to become dads, says a new study. “Laptops are becoming increasingly common among young men wired into to the latest technology,” said Suzanne Kavic, MD, director of the division of reproductive endocrinology at Loyola University Health System (LUHS) and associate professor in [...]

Early action could be crucial to addressing the problem of major increases in jellyfish numbers, which appears to be the result of human activities.