The San Francisco District Attorney's office has charged a 23-year-old cyclist with misdemeanor manslaughter for a July bike accident that resulted in the death of a pedestrian. Randolph Ang hit Dionette Cherney, 68, a realtor from Washington, D.C., when he ran a red light on July 15 in San Francisco's Waterfront District. Cherney died on August 11 from a head injury sustained in the accident. Ang could face a year in jail. Dionette is the first pedestrian to be killed by a cyclist in the city... Read More
The BBC’s upcoming documentary series, Frozen Planet, will be offered in the United States without an episode devoted to climate change. The final of seven episodes, “On Thin Ice,” shows footage of icebergs calving and features David Attenborough discussing climate change. The Discovery Channel, which will televise the series in the United States, has announced that a scheduling conflict will keep the network from showing all of the episodes, but that elements from the sevent... Read More
Later this month, Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator will begin a geoengineering project to create an artificial urban glacier as a cooling mechanism for the city's hot summer months. At a cost of about $1 million, engineering consortium EMI-ECOS plans to create a many-meter buildup of ice in the Tuul River that will melt slowly during the hottest months of the year. Scientists hope that, if successful, the use of "ice shields" could cut electricity-intensive air conditioning and help with irrigati... Read More
Alberto Contador will have to wait until January to find out if he will lose his 2010 Tour de France title. Contador is scheduled to appear in front of the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, next week to defend himself against charges of doping after he tested positive for the banned anabolic agent clenbuterol. Matthieu Reeb, secretary general of the CAS, said that the appeals panel could take as long as eight weeks to decide the Saxo Bank-SunGard rider's case. Contador c... Read More
Police in Sedona, Arizona were able to locate a lost hiker thanks, in part, to a picture the woman sent of the tread on her hiking boots. Rescuers from the Yavapai County Sheriff department tracked the woman, a 44-year-old from Scottsdale, with GPS coordinates from a phone call she made requesting help, then confirmed her location on site with pictures she sent of her boots. Cellphone cameras are increasingly used in search and rescue operations: in separate occasions earlier this year, lost h... Read More
