Project aims to protect rare arctic-alpine plants

Next Mass Effect game cancelled as EA shuts down legendary sci-fi RPG studio BioWare

Next Mass Effect game cancelled as EA shuts down legendary sci-fi RPG studio BioWare The writing was on the wall, but the news still hit us like a truck yesterday. BioWare, the iconic RPG studio behind the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, is no more.

Google Eyes Large ‘Virtual Power Plant’ for Data Centers

At least four dead after storm brings flooding to southern France

The deaths include two women found drowned in a cellar in the Bouches-du-Rhône region.

UN says we're going to blow past 1.5º warming, offers a "now what?" answer

In 2015, all but two countries agreed to make an effort to keep global temperatures from reaching 1.5° C above pre-industrial readings. Since then, most of the world has largely treated what they signed on to as aspirational, and one of the largest emitters (the US) has alternately withdrawn and recommitted to the agreement. Meanwhile, the planet has responded as expected to steadily rising carbon emissions and appears to be practically at the 1.5° limit.