News tagged with travel advisories

Swine flu prompts EU warning on travel to US

(AP) -- The top EU health official urged Europeans on Monday to postpone nonessential travel to parts of the United States and Mexico because of the swine flu virus, and Spanish health officials confirmed ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Scientists see big 'scientific event' as Pacific whales turn up far from home

When scientists fired a cigar-sized satellite tag into the blubber of a western gray whale off Russia's Sakhalin Island in September, they expected to track her along Asia's Pacific shoreline down to the South China Sea.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

TravelDNA seed planted on rocky honeymoon

Anishiya Taneja and her husband turned a rocky honeymoon into inspiration for a free online travel service that matches people with ideal vacation itineraries.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many fliers refuse to turn off electronic gadgets

Gadget-dependent fliers are turning a deaf ear to flight attendants' instructions to turn off their devices during takeoff and landing, despite decades of government warnings, a USA TODAY investigation shows.

Technology / Other

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 70

SwRI demonstrates traffic management to minimize environmental impacts

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is collecting and communicating real-time vehicle emissions data to demonstrate new concepts in environment-based traffic management as part of a connected vehicle test ...

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Earthquakes generate big heat in super-small areas: study

Most earthquakes that are seen, heard, and felt around the world are caused by fast slip on faults. While the earthquake rupture itself can travel on a fault as fast as the speed of sound or better, the fault ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Chile volcano ash grounds Australia, NZ flights

Ash from Chile's volcanic eruptions prompted Australian airline Qantas to ground some domestic services and some flights to New Zealand on Sunday, after plumes drifted across the Pacific.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 12, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Bigger Icelandic eruption, but less airline angst

(AP) -- An Icelandic volcano was flinging ash, smoke and steam miles (kilometers) into the air Sunday, dropping a thick layer of gray soot in an eruption far more forceful - but likely far less impactful ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NY MoMath museum aims to add to math appreciation

(AP) -- Mathematics. It's a subject that can elicit groans and exclamations of "boring." But Glen Whitney, a former hedge-fund quantitative analyst, is betting he can change that with a formula that looks ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists: Gulf health nearly at pre-spill level

(AP) -- Scientists judge the overall health of the Gulf of Mexico as nearly back to normal one year after the BP oil spill, but with glaring blemishes that restrain their optimism about nature's resiliency, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts

Terror alerts from the government will soon have just two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — and those will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances. Color codes are out; Facebook and ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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