Air Pollution Kills 5.5 Million People A Year — Over Half Of Them In China, India

Air pollution caused more than 5.5 million premature deaths in 2013, with more than half of those occurring in China and India, according to a new study, and pollution mort...

The Train Derailment That Gushed Oil Into A Quebec River Has Spawned Freaky Fish

What is shocking, however, is the extent of the problem: the rate of the deformations in one sample was found to be ten times higher than normal.
The 2013 derailment o...

Stars Help Deliver Gift Of Hearing During Super Bowl Weekend

Starkey Hearing Foundation delivered the gift of hearing to 134 San Francisco-area children and adults, ages four to 84, at the ninth annual Super Bowl Hearing Mission last...

18th San Francisco Independent Film Festival Preview

In human terms, this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival (hereafter “SF IndieFest”) has just reached voting age. Politics may be the subjects o...

Akshay Kumar To Feature In WHO's Diabetic Awareness Campaign

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar will feature in a video campaign by the World Health Organisation to raise awareness about diabetes in India. Akshay Kumar and Rajkumar Hir...

The Pentagon Just Issued Marching Orders On Climate Change

The boring-but-important 12-page document issued in January tells the armed service chiefs and top civilian officials to identify how climate change will affect their missi...

True Review - Film - The Finest Hours

Cast: Chris Pine,Casey Affleck,Ben Foster, Holliday Grainger,John Ortiz,Eric Bana

Direction: Craig Gillespie

Produced: Dorothy Aufiero, James Whitaker

True Review - Two New Shows Of Relevance

In the last few weeks, two channels have espoused women empowerment in their new offerings at Prime Time. Star Plus premiered Tamanna last week, before that Colors launched...

The US Wants To Make Oil, Gas, And Mining Companies More Transparent About Their Deals

Environmentalists and transparency activists are feuding with energy and mining interests over a proposed US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulation that would ...