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More than 61 feet of snow has fallen in the 400-mile-long Sierra Nevada mountain range this season, second only to the 1950-51 season when a...

Weather warning America's housing market is in the doldrums IF AMERICA'S housing market acts as a bellwether for its economy, then ...

Kill teams in Afghanistan: the truth

China may raise its five-year goal for solar power capacity to 10 gigawatts from 5 GW as its nuclear power development may slow, Xinhua said...

Living and Dying Downwind   The unleashed isotopes of concern from the damaged Japanese reactors - Iodine-131, Cesium-137, Strontium-90 and ...

All Japanese ports affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit the northeastern part of the country on March 11 have now r...

A surge in radioactive contamination reportedly was detected Saturday in seawater near Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Nuclear exp...

What They're Covering Up at Fukushima They say as you move away the radiation is reduced in inverse ratio to the square of the distan...

KO's Special Comment: Libya, Obama and the Five-Second Rule

China is hiking taxes on the mining of rare earth elements amid moves to mitigate environmental damage, control production levels and limit ...

Worst Texas Drought in 44 Years Eroding U.S. Wheat, Beef Supply “Each day we don’t get rain, our potential yield goes down,” Anderson said...

Global refined copper supply was in a deficit of 305 thousand tons in 2010, according to International Copper Study Group (ICSG). Rio Tint...

(Bloomberg) Goldman Sachs Group Inc. forecasts a global expansion of 4.8 percent this year, while JPMorgan calls for 4.4 percent. U.S. Fe...

The National Association of Realtors reported this morning that existing U.S. home sales fell 9.6% last month and prices dropped to the low...

Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium China’s Academy of Sciences said it had chosen a “thorium-based molten ...

The megaquake connection: Are huge earthquakes linked? "If you have a quake of, let's say, 6.2 or larger, every sand grain on the p...

(Kurzweil) How an MP3 can be used to hack your car Hackers could gain access to a vehicle’s computer systems remotely, security experts fro...

The U.S PPI rose 1.6% MoM, the most since June 2009. The core measure, which excludes food and energy costs rose 0.2% New U.S. housing co...

Meltdown at Fukushima The boiling-water reactors at Fukushima — 40 years old and designed by General Electric — have spent fuel pools sever...

(FT) AIR, the first of a handful of specialist catastrophe modelling agencies to release its Japan estimate, predicting losses of anything f...

Monetary contraction by the EU has set off a fresh spasm of the Eurozone bond crisis U.S. first-time jobless claims rise by 26,000 Th...

Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) introduced a bill that would repeal the 45 cents-per-gallon ethanol tax credit. Sleep-De...

Oil markets brace for Saudi 'rage' as global spare capacity wears thin The world's economic fate now hangs on the success of W...

Japan’s January core machinery orders rose 4.2% MoM and 5.9% YoY. The French trade deficit in January widened to 5.89 billion Euros (8.21 ...

(Bloomberg) -- China should use economic and administrative measures to curb the production and exports of corn-based products including sta...

Trichet said on Thursday that the ECB may raise interest rates next month due to mounting inflationary pressures The global sugar market w...

I Can’t Think! The Twitterization of our culture has revolutionized our lives, but with an unintended consequence—our overloaded brains fre...

The ISM’s factory index rose to 61.4 from 60.8. Bernanke said downside risks to the recovery have receded, and the risk of deflation has b...

The ISM index rose to 71.2 from 68.8 last month, the highest level since July 1988. The International Grains Council has lowered its forec...

Warren Buffett: "We are not natively smarter than we were when our country was founded nor do we work harder. But look around you and s...

Moody's raises flag on Japan debt -- says outlook now negative. The S&P, Case-Shiller index of U.S. home values in 20 cities fell ...

Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? Financial crooks brought down the world's economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than...

China raised reserve requirements for the second time this year to counter inflation and curb property-price gains. Silver futures clim...

U.S. wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January. Core PPI, which exclude food and energy, rose 0.5%-- the largest gain since October 2008. US H...

Print me a Stradivarius    How a new manufacturing technology will change the world

U.S. consumer sentiment rose to 75.1 from 74.2 in Jan. China’s sugar imports will probably rise to the highest in 16 years after drought...

(FT) Long view: History supports bond yield fears When worried about the short-term future, look to the long-term past for guidance

Growth in Macau and a bounce in Las Vegas helped Wynn Resorts push its bottom line back into the black in Q4. Kraft Q4 income fell 24% Yo...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture lowered its projection for the U.S. corn end of year supplies 70 million bushels to 675 million = BULLISH...

The UN said that China's wheat crop faces a "critical situation" if a drought across most of its range does not break. (Dow ...

Indonesia 's economic expansion accelerated in the October-December period to 6.9% on year from 5.8% in the previous three months. (Bl...

The US Grains Council expects China to import 3 to 9 million metric tons of corn (118 to 354 million bushels) in the current year. U.S. Un...

Einstein was right - honey bee collapse threatens global food security Apian atrophy is a more immediate threat than global warming, and c...

Paper money is made of cotton -- "intrinsic" value anyone? The DOE said: Supplies of U.S. crude rose by 2.6 million barrels la...