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Click here for updates on this story     CUMMING, Iowa (WQAD) — It’s been decades since Kelly and Carolyn Gay said “I do.” “We’ve been married 50 years and she’s probably kept one secret for me and this was it,” Kelly said. To celebrate, Carolyn and her husband, who live in the Des Moines metro, thought

The planet is on “red alert” because governments are failing to meet their climate change goals, the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Friday. He described 2021 as a “make or break year” following the release of a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) report analyzing the updated climate action plans submitted by 75

With Covid-19 vaccination production and distribution ramping up in the United States, more states are expanding who is eligible to be inoculated. On Tuesday, Mississippi is following Alaska’s lead and becoming the second state to open vaccination appointments to all residents 16 years and older, Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday. “Starting tomorrow, ALL new appointments

Remember the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which a catastrophic series of global disasters strike after climate change causes the world’s ocean currents to stop? Well, new research reveals Earth’s major ocean currents are slowing down, and though the consequences will not be as immediate or dramatic as in the Hollywood fiction, there are

Engineers want to build an underground lunar ark, filled with millions of seed, spore, sperm and egg samples from Earth’s species, hidden in a network of tubes on the moon to provide a genetic backup for the planet in the event of a doomsday scenario. Scientists from the University of Arizona have proposed an ark,

Global emissions of heat-trapping gases fell dramatically last year as the pandemic forced much of the world to a halt. But new data has shown they are bouncing back — fast. Lockdown measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus caused a 7% drop in CO2 emissions over the course of 2020 — the biggest

Click here for updates on this story     HOUSTON (KTRK) — The crisis at the border is a major topic that’s front and center this week in Washington. There has been a massive surge of child migrants crossing the border and more than 4,000 children are now stuck in border patrol-run facilities. What’s happening at the

Click here for updates on this story     HOUSTON (KTRK) — The attorney for the family of a 1-year-old shot by Houston police as they confronted a chase suspect says the baby is still suffering after the incident. According to attorney Benjamin Crump, 1-year-old Legend Smalls had to have part of his skull removed to relieve

Deep in the heart of Texas, above an oil patch about the size of Kansas, a little team in a small plane is trying to reveal a big problem. They are methane hunters. With an infrared camera and a Picarro Cavity Ring-Down Laser Spectroscope, they fly spirals over pumps and compressor stations that stretch to

Click here for updates on this story     BROOKLYN, New York (WABC) — Police are looking for a man who slashed a college student across the hand as she was walking home in Brooklyn. The scars left behind are now healing. But a 25-year-old woman, who chooses to be identified only as Cindy, says it will

Click here for updates on this story     ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Indiana (WBND) — The St. Joseph County Homicide Unit has provided an update to the investigation into the death of 6-year-old Grace Ross. The autopsy found her cause of death to be asphyxiation and manner of death as homicide. “The amount of people that I’ve

Russia is Britain’s top security challenge, the UK will build more nuclear weapons and London will expand its presence in the high-tech realms of space and cyberspace, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday in a sweeping review of British military and foreign policy. To accomplish its goals, the British government wants to increase defense spending