Both Chinas need democracy

November 06, 2015 - Daily News Briefing

The leaders of Taiwan and China meet in Singapore tomorrow at a time when Taiwan voters are increasingly wary of Beijing.

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Public tributes to fallen police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz are being taken down throughout Fox Lake, Ill., after the community learned that the beloved officer was not killed in the line of duty, but rather staged his suicide after stealing for years from a police club for youth. Members of the community are reeling from the apparent betrayal, the cost to the community, and the loss of funds that were intended to train young people interested in joining law enforcement.

After years of climate change discussions and as world leaders ready for another round during next month’s Paris summit, critics say it may be another effort in futility. If poorer nations don’t get they financial support of industrialized nations, like the United States, they won’t be able to meet new demands, particularly bringing in renewable energy as a means to address climate change, Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko, a high-ranking summit member representing 134 developing countries involved in the talks, told reporters.

Details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal were released Thursday, potentially setting off another round of debate on the controversial agreement involving one dozen nations. Labor unions and environmentalists have criticized the 12-country agreement, citing worries it would cut protections for and add competition to already-stagnating wages and hand more power to multinational corporations. Many in Congress have expressed concerns the pact would further hamper US job prospects just as the country is climbing out of a years-long recession. A major stipulation of the TPP agreement requires Vietnam and Malaysia to overhaul human rights and labor practices.

After thirteen years of grief and worry, an Alabama mother received news that her son, missing since 2002, is alive and well in Cleveland, Ohio. When Julian Hernandez was five years old, authorities believed that he had been abducted by his father, Bobby Hernandez, who did not have custody at the time. Police were unable to track the boy down, until an 18-year-old Julian ran into a snag applying for college. When submitting college applications, Julian's Social Security number was returned again and again as incorrect. Trying to help, a school counselor discovered Julian was listed as missing by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Julian's father is in police custody, facing charges in two states.

Scientists have long wondered how Mars transformed into the cold, dry desert it is today when it once was very similar to Earth. But NASA published new research Thursday from its Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft that might at last solve this scientific mystery. Mars’ atmosphere leaks into space at about a half a pound a second. MAVEN’s data reveals stronger erosion rates of Mars’ atmosphere during solar storms. The "interplanetary coronal mass ejection," also called an aurora, causes “dramatic spikes in the number of oxygen and carbon dioxide ions spewing into space.” Jasper Halekas, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Iowa and a member of the MAVEN team, told The New York Times that the solar storm studied in early March “is the equivalent of a tsunami at Mars.” Because Mars does not have a global magnetic field like Earth, its atmosphere is left unprotected and vulnerable to periodic solar storms from the sun, caused by high-energy blasts of the sun’s gas and solar ultraviolet radiation.

Scientists with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology are conducting an experiment to grow "super coral," off of Hawaii’s 29-acre Coconut Island. They are hoping this new coral that has been gradually exposed to stressful water conditions in the laboratory will fair better in the increasingly hotter and more acidic oceans caused by global warming. Experts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said coral bleaching is killing coral reefs world wide, with Hawaii feeling some of the biggest effects.

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