Jessica Falkholt has had her life support switched off by her devastated family weeks after the Boxing Day crash that claimed the lives of her parents and sister. The 28-year-old Home and Away actress’ family made the decision on Thursday evening, just one day after the funeral of father Lars,…
As part of his New Year’s address, Pope Francis shared the most important image you’ll see all day. Pope Francis has printed a card calling for peace and empathy in this New Year as a bleak warning of what the face of global conflict looks like. Featuring one of the…
Since 2016, much debate has raged on regarding the rain in Antarctica. Once something that has almost never happened, this weather event led scientists to extensive research. This paper was titled “January 2016 extensive summer melt in West Antarctica favored by strong El Nino.” It was published in the journal…
Australia’s heatwave became so bad over the weekend that the roads literally began melting, causing traffic jams as motorists navigated around the unusual mess. A whole 10km span of Hume Highway in Victoria began to liquefy—the tar turning into a sticky mush. It was another indicator of skyrocketing temperatures in Sydney…
Call it whatever you like—a blue red moon, a purple moon, a blood moon—but the moon will be a special sight on Jan. 31. Three separate celestial events will occur simultaneously that night, resulting in what some are calling a super blue blood moon eclipse. The astronomical rarity hasn’t happened for more…
Since New Years Day Mount St. Helens has experienced 40 earthquakes within its vicinity as aftershocks continue every few hours. The most powerful earthquake was a magnitude 3.9 that occurred around midnight west coast time about 5 miles from Mount St. Helens and 23 miles from the town of Morton. By Trevor…
In the local people’s tongue, her name means ‘sunrise girl-child’, and even though she only lived for six fleeting weeks, she’s already told scientists more than we ever knew about the very first Native Americans. Sunrise girl-child (“Xach’itee’aanenh T’eede Gaay”) lived some 11,500 years ago in what is now called…
