News From Above

10 Tips For A Sustainable Christmas. Tricks and Tips for a More Eco-Friendly Christmas. With the Christmas Holidays approaching, and everyone getting excited about all the festivities and excitement that come with it, it is time to address the other ...

■ Griffin Furlong has been fighting an uphill battle, but this week the 18-year-old graduated as ''class valedictorian" after his mother to leukemia when he was 6, Furlong spent two years in a homeless shelter with his father and brother ...

A crew of goats brought in to devour invasive plants at a popular park in Oregon's state capital, Salem, have been fired because they ate indiscriminately, cost nearly five times as much as human landscapers and smelled far worse, a ...

The Flint water crisis. A health catastrophe uncovered by a doctor at the Flint, MI Public Hospital. Dr. Mona as she is referred to is also a professor at Flint, MI state university's College of Medicine. Call it fate, but ...

Bright Lights in a World of Darkness More than 30 years ago the Supreme Court in the United States ruled that if individuals are mentally ill but not criminally insane they cannot be confined to asylums. They must be allowed to live in ...

Why are most mass shootings perpetrated by white males? asked Charlotte Childress and Harriet Childress. In the debate over why America suffers so many killing sprees, race and gender are “the elephant in the room.” At Newtown, Aurora, Tucson, Columbine— ...

Scientists have discovered that the moon Europa the sixth closest moon to Jupiter has been spewing plumes of water more than 20 times taller than Mt. Everest.  The Hubble Space Telescope has taken images of this activity in recent years.  ...

Researchers have found that deep in the Amazon Rain Forest there lived over a million people in an area of 7% of the basin before the Europeans arrived.  Satellite images show that undiscovered glyphs are across the Upper Tapajos Basin ...

Santa Barbara, Calif. More than 100 people were arrested and dozens—including six police officers—injured last week when a large spring break party near the University of California, Santa Barbara, deteriorated into a riot. An estimated 15,000 people were at the ...

■    Chris Bires lost his wedding ring out of an act of charity, but a stranger's charity helped him get it back. The 41-year-old had given a pocketful of coins to a street saxophonist while walking to work in Chicago, ...