The tropical storm named Paula strengthened to take the form of a hurricane on Tuesday as it approached the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico as reported by the U.S. National Hurricane Center. Lots of unpleasant weather had marked this year’s hurricane season providing great encouragement for storm hunters.
Paula was moving with raging winds at a speed of 75 miles per hour giving it the tag of a category 1 hurricane. At that time it was located about 230 miles to the south-southeast of Cozumel in Mexico. However, the season’s sixteenth storm …

George Mason University officials have confirmed that they have started investigating misconduct and plagiarism charges that were made against an acclaimed climate science critic.
A letter dated July 28, 2010 written by GMU indicated that investigation proceedings against Professor Edward Wegman are going to be completed before the end of September.
In 2006, Professor Edward Wegman, GMU statistics professor spearheaded a crucial Congressional committee reports that was critical of the reconstructions of various past climate conditions by scientists, notably in 1999.
Daniel Walsch, the GMU spokesman, confirms that the Fairfax-based university is conducting …

More companies and recyclers continue to take steps of ensuring that TV and computers are not damped in poor countries. Basel Action Network is a Seattle-based group that has exposed the practice of electronic waste disposal into developing countries by the US.
On Thursday, this group launched a new program in which third party auditors are to certify recyclers who do not export hazardous e-waste.
These so-called eSteward recyclers are also going to agree that they will not damp any wastes in any US landfills as well as other criteria.
This certification is …

Immigration advocacy groups have started shifting their entire arsenal from the US Capitol and heading towards local communities, amid the continual waning of the prospect of US Congress carrying out a complete overhaul of immigration law.
They are busy forming neighborhood committees. They are helping legal and illegal immigrants with the task of navigating deportation proceedings as well as learning English. They are lobbying local government officials and police in resisting harsh enforcement and warning vigilant neighbors of raids by immigration officials.
The local level is the newest front of progress Francisco …

California lawmakers were 100 days late, several billion dollars short in the coming year, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has hailed the budget created. The budget does not include any new fees or taxes except the public-pension as well as the budget reforms that the governor had sought.
Schwarzenegger, a renowned Republican, leaves office in January owing to term limits. He said he is going to use his own line-item veto in efforts to cut the resulting additional $965 million. He was hoping to sign the budget after its passage in order …

After succeeding in the production of 2500 hours of television programming within 25 years, Andy Heyward moved into Act II. Thus, he sold his production company for just under $100 million and thought about what he was going to do next. This was in 2008.
He remarried, built a vacation home at Martha’s Vineyard, and continued thinking. He bought a sailboat owned by Walter Cronkite, decided to rename it Gadget, after his most popular cartoon series, Inspector Gadget. Then, he spent a lot of time sailing on the water. After one …