The Amazon rainforest is huge, complex, and on fire. The Amazon rainforest covers 2,100,000 square miles, or 5,500,00km². Around 60% of the rainforest falls within Brazil, with the rest of the forest falling under Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. By now you’ve probably heard the statistic – 20 per […]

Violent crime, including armed robbery, homicide and sexual assault, is a concern throughout the Dominican Republic

As a journalist and CEO of American Press Association, I want express my personal thoughts regarding the daily news that assails our senses each and every day.  I’ve often been asked how I handle the daily assault of death, mayhem and violence that we are subjected to with each daily news cycle. How do I […]

Mount Anak Krakatau located in Sunda Strait, South Lampung, erupted for 156 times since Tuesday, October 2 until early Wednesday. The eruption followed by incandescent lava and thunder sounds, and a tsunami wave. At least 222 people are dead,  over 800 injured, and many more are missing,  after a tsunami struck Indonesia late Saturday night […]

 More than half of U.S. states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana in some form, and more are considering bills to do the same. Yet while many people are using marijuana, the FDA has only approved it for treatment of two rare and severe forms of epilepsy, Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. […]

SAN FRANCISCO, May 23, 2018 – For the first time, a ligand-targeted nanoparticle has been successfully used to deliver CRISPR into the nucleus of a T-cell. “From the start, CRISPR and other genetic therapies have suffered from the classic ‘last-mile’ problem,” said Andre Watson, founder, chairman and CEO of Ligandal. “For all their power to […]

What happens when more than 7,000 of the world’s top innovators and entrepreneurs under 30 gather together in the most revolutionary city in the country? They seize the moment to create, collaborate, and conceive new ideas that can change the world. The 2018 Forbes Under 30 Summit Boston, presented by JPMorgan Chase & Co., will […]

  November 13, 2016. Chicago. Photo coverage by Nancy Bechtol, American Press Association     Chicago: No to DAPL. Anti-Trump March

September 28, 2016 Most photographers “shoot from the hip“, so to speak, and spend little or no time  mastering the essentials of good photography. They use the camera like a gun site, aiming at the center of their interest, instead of creating a visual piece of art.  Some photographers are instinctively talented and artistic in […]

May damnation come down on these inhumane leaders and their Islamic stupidity. Dogs have more compassion than these, so called, religious leaders. They would give their lives for their owners in a second, if need be. The extent to which humans lose their compassion, their humanity, their love of these creatures is a foreboding of […]