A vast amount of the plastic garbage littering the surface of the ocean may be disappearing, a new study suggests.

With fewer Americans actually able to change a tire, and the auto industry looking to save weight and costs to meet fuel economy targets, it's not surprising th

The backlash from Kraft placing a healthy eating label on its processed cheese singles made the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics rethink the label’s use.

A team of experts say the deadly explosion was caused by a buildup of static electricity after flying through a thunderstorm.

Study finds U.S. and Canada have lost 29% of birds in past 50 years.

The suffering of New Orleans offers valuable lessons -- but is the U.S. paying attention?

From aiding search-and-rescue missions to lending a shoulder to cry on, man's best friend can often be found at the site of tragedy.

New research suggests that discussing politics — and even arguing — offers more benefits than you might think.

Access to clean, safe drinking water during natural disasters such as hurricanes or floods is critical to health and survival. Here's how to ensure your supply.

A highlight of the landscape in Ecuador's Cayambe Coca Park, the San Rafael waterfall is now little more than a trickle.

Turning tragedy into an opportunity for growth, the Greensburg, Kansas community is rebuilding with an emphasis on sustainability.

Fireflies are disappearing, likely due to three factors: Habitat loss, toxic chemicals and light pollution. Here’s how you can help them bounce back.

The sea has a dead zone the size of Texas, and it's growing bigger every year because of sewage and fertilizer flowing into the waters.

Vertical Harvest is a hydroponic greenhouse in Wyoming that offers year-round produce and employs people with disabilities.

Over 30 years, Iran's Lake Urmia has shrunk by 80% due to drought and water overuse, but there's hope the lake is starting to rise again.

The cinematic destruction of planet earth, or part of it, has been a favorite Hollywood movie theme for decades.

Prepare to be a little freaked out and then rush to your refrigerator to try this method of eating an apple for yourself.

Performance at group and UK & International level improved and COR was 95.0% as the business noted the impact of discipline and portfolio exits.

Use these tips to enhance your relationship without your disabled colleagues and clients.

Mental Health Expert explains: "We support ESA regulation, but not to the detriment of proper access to mental health treatment for Americans"

Let's become a Tokyo-born hero.

Businesses, schools and governments are under siege from an increasing number of natural and man-made disruptive events. One crisis can destroy your organization and impact the lives of all involved. A new book can help you.

Helpers make 'please pray' appeal as emergency supplies are rushed to Indian state hit by worst flooding in almost a century

Philly native Mz Genesiz shines a new light on the male dominated hip hop industry by using her savvy business skills to create a new blueprint in Hip Hop.

Plasticity Brain Centers is now an eligible provider under the Gardiner Scholarship Program

The Mesothelioma Victims Center does not want one US Navy Veteran with mesothelioma to confuse a significant financial compensation settlement with what could be a monthly VA disability payment that might be around a thousand dollars.

The US Navy Veterans Mesothelioma Advocate does not want one US Navy Veteran with mesothelioma to confuse a significant financial compensation settlement of possibly a million dollars with a monthly VA disability payment that might be $3000.

Hamilton Pacific Chamberlain partnered with Veterans In Pain to expand outreach efforts

In response to this crisis, Comer Capital Group will be assisting small businesses to obtain the necessary capital to remain functional through the SBA Disaster Loan Assistance Program.

The people who need it most, cannot afford it.

The Employee Retention Tax Credit, designed to reward employers who retained local workforce, allows for a cash benefit of up to $1,920 per eligible employee.

WAWG and WGC Calls for an Immediate Short Term Extension, Farmers Need Stability and Certainty

West Va. to Implement Alternative Absentee Voting Method

1 in 5 Americans Have Invisible Learning Disabilities and they ALL Deserve to VOTE in 2020

Reddit has disabled its Start Chatting features shortly after launching the new chat product.

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Digital disasters create incredible data loss and, sadly, they're on the rise

"I want to provide a platform where the voices of people living with disability are heard."

Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with Meredith F. Bone, MD, MSCI

2020 marks the 30th anniversary of President George H.W. Bush signing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law. Throughout this 30th anniversary year, the Division is publishing a monthly series of blog posts highlighting the impact that our recent ADA enforcement efforts have made in people’s everyday lives. We celebrate the many ways in which the ADA has transformed American society and enabled a generation of Americans with disabilities to thrive. At the same time, we recognize that too many barriers to equal opportunity remain. We recommit to our work of making the promise of the ADA a reality, enabling all Americans with disabilities to achieve their dreams and reach their full potential.

Gov. Kim Reynolds has put Iowa on the map, and not in a good way. Sioux City and Waterloo/Cedar Falls are now on the list of communities in America with exploding cases of COVID-19. Both communities are now fighting to protect meatpacking workers and the community because company efforts to protect their workers have failed.

The alarms started going off at Iowa’s meatpacking plant in Tama and Columbus Junction in late March. Packing plants in those communities closed on April 6 due to rampant worker sickness from the deadly virus. Now, after repeated complaints, state OSHA inspectors were finally forced to visit Tyson’s plant in Waterloo. Sadly, however, they still have not conducted a single in-person inspection of any other Iowa plants to make sure that workers have protective equipment and are practicing effective infectious disease control.

Instead, Gov. Reynolds has repeatedly praised company executives for their efforts. trust packing plant CEOs without independently verifying what they were doing is now causing sickness, death and supply chain calamity.

Her ideologically motivated decision to block state inspectors from visiting and helping the plants has thrown Iowa livestock farmers into financial and management turmoil.

Now the president says all packing plants must remain open. This is a disaster. Forcing Iowa workers to work in unsafe conditions without state enforceable protections is cruel and will make all Iowans unsafe while further delaying our economic recovery.

Iowans deserve better.

State Sen. Joe Bolkcom

Iowa City

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Many people think the word “disability” means people who require a wheelchair or walker. In reality, however, there is much more to disability than meets the eye. 

Patients with disabilities must receive the same level of lifesaving medical treatment from hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic as able-bodied patients, the Trump administration said.

Solar power is a free natural source of energy from up above, it's a gift of God, we call it the sun and it is for everyone to use. Solar cost may be much lower than you might expect.

Video by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / Jefferson Beck Arctic sea ice has not only been shrinking in surface area in recent years, it’s becoming younger and thinner as well. In this animation, where the ice cover almost looks … Continue reading →

Stephen Hawking, a world-renowned scientist who recently passed away, had a brilliant mind that was trapped inside a paralyzed body, and I could not stop thinking about how the opposite is often the case with traumatic brain injury.

Receiving service-related disability compensation does not interfere with the funds veterans receive from the GI Bill, explains Adam.

Assistive shared-control robots have the potential to transform the lives of millions of people afflicted with severe motor impairments. The usefulness of shared-control robots typically relies on the underlying autonomy's ability to infer the user's needs and intentions, and the ability to do so unambiguously is often a limiting factor for providing appropriate assistance confidently and accurately. The contributions of this paper are four-fold. First, we introduce the idea of intent disambiguation via control mode selection, and present a mathematical formalism for the same. Second, we develop a control mode selection algorithm which selects the control mode in which the user-initiated motion helps the autonomy to maximally disambiguate user intent. Third, we present a pilot study with eight subjects to evaluate the efficacy of the disambiguation algorithm. Our results suggest that the disambiguation system (a) helps to significantly reduce task effort, as measured by number of button presses, and (b) is of greater utility for more limited control interfaces and more complex tasks. We also observe that (c) subjects demonstrated a wide range of disambiguation request behaviors, with the common thread of concentrating requests early in the execution. As our last contribution, we introduce a novel field-theoretic approach to intent inference inspired by dynamic field theory that works in tandem with the disambiguation scheme.

The apps and devices you use are conducting surveillance with your every move Sure, you lock your home, and you probably don't share your deepest secrets with random strangers.…