Amazon has just announced a new delivery service called Amazon Prime Now, which allows Prime members from Manhattan to order thousands of products and be delivered immediately at their home. All they need to do is download the new app on their iOS Android smart mobile devices and choose the speed of the delivery: either in one hour, or two hours. The delivery is made between 6 a.m. and 24:00, … [Read more...]
Amazon to Open Physical Store in New York
Amazon, one of the oldest online stores, plans on opening a physical store in New York, according to the Wall Street Journal. Amazon began as an online bookstore almost 20 years ago. Jeff Bezos set up the online store particularly because he wanted to take advantage of the new business opportunities offered by the Internet. But now competition is tighter than ever. EBay has long been the main … [Read more...]
UN Climate Summit Promises Have World Leaders Facing Tough Slog Ahead
World leaders will have a difficult time as ever getting a reasonable deal on cutting greenhouse-gas emissions, especially after the end of the United Nations climate summit. Together with U.S. President Barack Obama, more than 100 world leaders promised to find a global agreement that would efficiently address climate change. These leaders took center stage yesterday in order to point out how … [Read more...]
Ban Ki-moon Taking Part in Upper West Side People’s Climate March
Tens of thousands of people gathered on Sunday to take part in Manhattan’s Upper West Side Climate March, a demonstration that organizers called the largest march demanding immediate action on climate change. More than 100,000 people are expected at the People’s Climate March this weekend, according to organizers, coinciding with 2,000 other similar events planned in more than 150 countries. … [Read more...]
NASA keeps hawk’s eye on giant B31 iceburg
US space agency NASA is closely monitoring the movement of a large sized iceberg that broke off from the Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier in November 2013. In a statement the agency said, "Will likely be swept up soon in the swift currents of the Southern Ocean, though it will be hard to track visually for the next six months as Antarctica heads into winter darkness". The scientists came … [Read more...]
Antartica Iceberg Video – Six Times Bigger than Manhattan
Believe it or not!!! The scientists have come across an iceberg which is roughly six times the size of Manhattan, one of the largest iceberg. The reports say the giant iceberg, B31, broke off from an Antarctic’s Pine Island Glacier last November and presently is heading into the open ocean. According to NASA glaciologist Kelly Brunt, the iceberg is about 255 square miles (660 square km) in … [Read more...]