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A new study by the United States Geological Survey has unveiled that climate change will severely affect southwestern Wyoming.

It will make this place quite vulnerable to wildfires and affect plant and animal life in the region. The scientists have based their estimates on forecasts for warmer temperatures and a rise in winter precipitation falling as rainfall versus snow.

In order to assess the changing sagebrush landscape, the researchers have used earth observation data of worth three decades. The researchers have also used the data to know how badly these things will impact the nesting areas of sage grouse.

International Whaling Committee experts did not find enough information in Japan's revised program of resuming its whale hunt in the Southern Ocean. The experts said that the plan, Newrep-A, did not provide scientific justification for the whale hunts.

The IWC panel said that after going through the plan, they are not able to determine whether Japan required to kill whales to accomplish two important objectives. The objectives are calculating the size of populations in order to return to sustainable commercial hunting and having more knowledge of the Antarctic marine ecosystem.

On Monday, a handwritten notebook by Alan Turing, computer scientist responsible for breaking the German Enigma Code, goes on sale at Bonhams New York. According to reports, the notebook has been put on sale with a value of at least $1 million.

Turing had written the 56-web page manuscript at a time when the British pioneering computer scientist was working to breaking Enigma codes that were employed by Germans all through the World War II. As per Bonhams, which is a privately owned British auction house, the notebook has Turing's complicated mathematical and pc science notations. Bonhams, which has been supplying the manuscript for sale, also stated that the manuscript is the only existed document related to Turing.

According to authorities, a reserve police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed an unarmed black man. A video has been released that showing the shoot that took place on April 2.

As per the 73-year-old Bob Bates, he made use of gun in place of a Taser mistakenly. Police posted the footage that shows suspect Eric Courtney Harris running down a street away a pursuing police car.

Hillary Clinton is kicking off her bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.

She has begun a tour of key states in her campaign following her announcement that she intends to make a second attempt at becoming the country's first female commander-in-chief.

Clinton is returning to the Iowa, the state that plagued her nearly eight years ago. In 2008, Iowa conclave paved the way for her ultimate defeat by Barack Obama.

Now, she wants to make her case to Democrats again and prove that she is the candidate who can represent the voters of Iowa in the best possible manner.

Clinton is traveling from New York to her first campaign stop on Tuesday in Iowa. On Sunday evening, she was spotted chatting with people at a gas station in Pennsylvania.

An important change has been revealed in Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index released on Monday. It has been highlighted that now nearly nine out of 10 adults have health insurance.

In 2013, more than 8 out of 10 adults had coverage. The new number from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index seems to be encouraging for President Barack Obama's health care law. It is a new milestone on the path of his goal in which every US resident should have health insurance.

In the coming time, many new factors will be included in the law including an upcoming Supreme Court decision with regard to consumer subsidies to actions by Republican leaders in states.