Home Search
winter - search results
If you're not happy with the results, please do another search
Experts: Giving Money to a Good Cause Can Fuel Happiness
Money can buy you happiness, especially if you share it with others. “There is some science to this, literally,” said Robert Ashcraft, executive director...
A Peace Corps for Geeks? Nonprofit Donates Apps to Cities
Code for America is a new kind of public service. Volunteer teams have developed apps that have trimmed Boston's costs for digging out fire...
Entertainers and Fashion Icons Pitch in With Storm Relief Donations, Benefit Concerts, Auctions
Stars from Hollywood to Virginia are pitching in to help New York and New Jersey recover from Hurricane Sandy. A celebrity auction has even...
Butterfly Boon as Mexico Stops Logging in Monarch Reserve
Illegal logging has practically been eliminated in the western Mexico wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly, according to a report released in August.
The government,...
Flickr Users Discover New Species of Insect
A photographer living in the rainforest-rich country of Malaysia who specializes in macro photography was hiking in Selangor State Park near Kuala Lumpur when...
Endangered Whales Sing Like Birds in Recordings That Hint at Rebound
A University of Washington researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters off...
13-Year-old Recycles Cooking Grease into Heating Oil for Needy Families
After reading an article in the local newspaper, Cassandra Lin of Westerly, Rhode Island discovered that many residents could not afford to heat their...
Kentucky Man Buys Out K-Mart Store, Donates it All to Charity
A business owner realized, "It's time to give back," after years of seeing needy people selling their stuff in his jewelry-exchange business.
Rankin Paynter, who...
Powerful First Quarter Brings Optimism to Wall Street, Businesses and US Job Seekers
The stock market just had its best first quarter in 14 years. The surge has sent Wall Street analysts, whose forecasts seemed too sunny...
Gaming CEO Gifts Employees $3 million of His Own Money
Since September 2010, Minecraft -- the video game focused on creativity and building -- has attracted millions of fans and become a huge hit....
How Our Golden Retriever Lost Her Sight — But Kept Her Love of Life
For years, our Golden Retriever, Shakira, had the ability to track an incoming missile – a yellow tennis ball, I mean – better than...
Swedish Man Survived Two Months in Snow-buried Car
A 45-year old driver stuck since December survived by hibernating "a bit like a bear", doctors say.
He was dug out alive from his snow-buried...
Arctic Snowy Owls Soar South in Rare Mass Migration
Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern...
De-stress Your Life in 10 Easy Steps
The gloomy days of January can be the most miserable and stressful of the year, but it doesn't have to be this way. If...
Police Inspector Slashes Crime by Two-thirds After Telling Officers ‘Stop Hanging Around the Station’
A police inspector who banned his officers from hanging around their station during shifts was hailed as a 'bit of a hero' who proved...
MIT Debuts First Prototype of Effort to Build $1,000 Homes
Home prices in many of the world’s most famous cities run to well over $1,000 per square foot. By contrast, MIT architects have produced...
Teen Uses Fibonacci Sequence to Make Solar Energy Breakthrough
Long Island resident Aidan Dwyer is just 13 years old and is already a patented inventor of solar panel arrangements.
On a winter hiking trip,...
How a 21-Year-Old Design Student’s Sleeping-Bag Coat Could Break The Cycle Of Homelessness
A 21-year-old design student in Detroit redesigned the winter coat to help homeless people suffering from relentlessly cold winters. The ankle-length "Element S" is...
Logging Plummets in Monarch Butterfly Mexico Reserve
Good news for the Monarch butterflies and their wintering grounds in central Mexico: The clearing of forests used by the butterflies has dropped to...
Blue Crab Comeback Continues in Chesapeake Bay
Continuing their comeback in the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs hit their second-highest total this winter since 1997, officials said Tuesday, nearly double the record...