School closures and health warnings: South and Southeast Asia swelter under record-breaking heat Throughout April, a heatwave has been blazing across some parts of India as well. On 21 April, the eastern city of Bhagora hit a high of over 45C. A ‘red alert’” warning was issued by the India ... 05/3/2024 - 4:25 am | View Link
Surge in electricity demand poses tricky path ahead for PNW utilities, report shows Demand for electricity is spiking across the Pacific Northwest ... referencing the widespread and fatal power outages across the state as temperatures sank to record lows in February 2021. Rather, a ... 05/1/2024 - 7:00 pm | View Link
Mass fish die-off in Vietnam as heatwave roasts Southeast Asia Hundreds of thousands of fish have died in a reservoir in southern Vietnam's Dong Nai province, with locals and media reports suggesting a brutal heatwave and the lake's management are ... 04/30/2024 - 10:31 pm | View Link
Power restored to 95% of OPPD customers THEY’RE NOW LOOKING AT SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS IN DAMAGE. SUCH A MESS. AND HERE’S A LOOK AT POWER OUTAGES RIGHT NOW. OPD REPORTING ABOUT 1900 CUSTOMERS WITHOUT POWER, MOSTLY IN DOUGLAS COUNTY ... 04/28/2024 - 10:33 am | View Link
BEYOND LOCAL: What is curtailment? An electricity market expert explains why states sometimes have too much wind or solar power The following article, written by Theodore J. Kury , University of Florida originally appeared on The Conversation and is published here with permission: Curtailment has a special meaning in electric ... 04/27/2024 - 4:59 am | View Link
The Colorado legislature convened Saturday for a final weekend of work in its 2024 session, which is set to end Wednesday. Major pieces of legislation are still pending, with lawmakers expected to debate gun regulations, housing, land-use policy, transportation, property tax reform and other priorities in the final days.
This story will be updated throughout the day.
Updated at 1:30 p.m.: A proposed Constitutional amendment to remove defunct language banning same-sex marriage will go to voters this November after a referred measure passed the Colorado House on Saturday.
The proposed amendment would remove a ban approved by voters in 2006.
Protesters chanted anti-war messages and waved Palestinian flags during the University of Michigan’s commencement Saturday, as student demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war collided with the annual pomp-and-circumstance of graduation ceremonies.
No arrests were reported and the protest — comprised of about 50 people, many wearing traditional Arabic kaffiyeh along with their graduation caps — didn’t seriously interrupt the nearly two-hour event at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, which was attended by tens of thousands of people.
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One protest banner read: “No universities left in Gaza.”
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Kate Middleton’s life changed significantly when she married Prince William in 2011, having met while studying at the University of St Andrews in Scotland.
Now Princess of Wales and next in line to be Queen, Kate married into a generationally wealthy family whose working members get official expenses covered by proceeds from their vast land holdings, and she and her husband have only gotten wealthier during their marriage.
Kimberly Zapata, the former Milwaukee elections official who committed election fraud in the 2022 elections by falsely filing for three military absentee ballots found out her fate this week.
Zapata had been facing up to five years in prison, instead was sentenced to one year of probation, a $3,000 fine and 120 hours of community service.
Ukraine estimates that over half of all Russian casualties are due to small, cheap FPV drones are just modified consumer items. Last year, Russian radio jammers often brought them down, to the point that Ukraine was losing upwards of 10,000 a month. Since then, the technology has advanced and their jammers don't work anymore.
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Russia has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, Russian state media reported Saturday, citing the interior ministry’s database.
As of Saturday afternoon, both Zelenskyy and his predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, featured on the ministry’s list of people wanted on unspecified criminal charges. The commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, Gen.