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French jeweller Pierre Cartier traded a  million pearl necklace and just 0 to buy a Fifth Avenue mansion in 1917 that became one of New York’s most famous luxury landmarks

French jeweller Pierre Cartier traded a $1 million pearl necklace and just $100 to buy a Fifth Avenue mansion in 1917 that became one of New York’s most famous luxury landmarks

Cartier’s Mansion On Fifth Avenue Underwent Its Biggest Revamp Ever Just In Time For Its Centenary French jeweller Pierre Cartier defeated some of New York’s most powerful real estate families by using a double-strand pearl necklace and only a $100 payment to secure a six-story Fifth Avenue mansion that is now worth hundreds of millions…

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Watch: Deadly landslide strikes China, dozens remain missing

Watch: Deadly landslide strikes China, dozens remain missing

At least eight people are dead and 34 remain missing after a rain-triggered landslide buried residential buildings in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality on Friday.The landslide struck at around 9.08 am in Pengshui Miao and Tujia Autonomous County, after local officials reported sporadic rockfalls about an hour earlier and began evacuating residents. Despite the early warning,…

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Scientists played human voices near Alaska salmon streams and found that bears and eagles fled, disrupting how salmon nutrients move into forests

Scientists played human voices near Alaska salmon streams and found that bears and eagles fled, disrupting how salmon nutrients move into forests

Caption: Top left: A cinnamon-colored black bear and her cub flee. Top right: Brown bears on alert after hearing the sound of engines from an off-highway vehicle. Bottom left: A bald eagle eats a freshly caught meal from the nearby stream, ignoring the control sounds of gull calls. Bottom right: A black bear continues to…

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A rare Atlantic Niña and a powerful Super El Niño may work together to suppress Atlantic hurricanes, lowering US landfall risk but not removing it

A rare Atlantic Niña and a powerful Super El Niño may work together to suppress Atlantic hurricanes, lowering US landfall risk but not removing it

A rare combination of two major ocean climate patterns is drawing the attention of meteorologists this year. According to an analysis by Severe Weather Europe, a rare Atlantic Niña developing in the tropical Atlantic is coinciding with a strengthening Super El Niño in the Pacific Ocean. While these two events occur in different oceans, forecasters…

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7 Americans move into Kenya isolation centre as US mandates 21-day Ebola quarantine

7 Americans move into Kenya isolation centre as US mandates 21-day Ebola quarantine

Health workers interact at the Evangelical Medical Center in eastern Congo. (AP Photo) Seven American aid workers who had been involved in responding to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being quarantined at a US-backed bio-isolation facility in Kenya after the US government introduced new travel restrictions requiring Americans returning…

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Red Tide Antidote: Scientists discover first-ever antidote to red tide toxin behind shellfish poisoning

Red Tide Antidote: Scientists discover first-ever antidote to red tide toxin behind shellfish poisoning

For centuries, shellfish poisoning has been a threat to humans, and we have had no way to stop it. The ‘red tide’ algal blooms found on the Pacific coast are deadly contributors, producing one of the most vicious neurotoxins known: saxitoxin (STX). Eat the wrong shellfish, and paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) follows. There is no…

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