How A Swiss Wrote The 'Most Annoying Song Of All Time'. Swiss accordionist Werner Thomas composed the tune for The Birdie Song in the 1950s to liven up the après-ski in eastern Switzerland. It went on ...

Ten years ago the world came together to forge a path out of the climate emergency in the form of a global treaty dubbed the Paris Agreement. Under the accord, nations committed to keeping global ...

Two waves of rain added up to 3 inches this week for the wettest parts of the Bay Area. Below are the rainfall totals from late Saturday, Nov. 15, through Thursday, Nov. 20. The National Weather ...

According to researchers from Towards Packaging, the global gusseted pouches market, estimated at USD 4.61 billion in 2025, ...

Christmas cheer may be in short supply in the spirits industry but, Richard Woodard writes, there are still plenty of ...

From India’s retail inflation hitting a record low in October, shutdown in the US hitting flight operations, India’s decision to roll back curbs on rice exports leading to a decline in global prices, ...

There was some initial promise that attending member states might do something different. Initial pressure was exerted by the Colombia-led coalition ("mutirão" or joint effort) of 83 countries to ...

Cumulative fossil fuel emissions of CO 2 had only reached 1ppm (Fig 1) by ~1860, when Alpine Glaciers began to retreat (Fig 2). Since that time, atmospheric CO 2 has increased by some 122 ppm and the ...

Earth is in the midst of a 40-year-long accelerated warming trend spurred on by human-caused climate change, and 2018 isn't helping. Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and ...

As world leaders gather in Brazil for the UN's annual climate conference, the heat is on to find solutions to the rising global temperatures wreaking havoc across the world. Thirty years since the ...

Global efforts to address climate change are — still — going far better today than they were a decade ago, even with recent politics pushing the problem to the back burner. Why it matters: We humans ...

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