Environment

Forty years ago: Apollo and Soyuz link up androgynously in orbit

July 20, 2015 By Special to People’s World

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), conducted 40 years ago in July 1975, was the first joint U.S.-Soviet space flight.

Decline of Earth’s plant life threatens human life

July 17, 2015 By Thomas Riggins

The destruction of the total biomass of the planet is fueled by the immense profits available under capitalism for the private exploitation of natural resources.

Today in history: atom bomb successfully tested 70 years ago

July 16, 2015 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1945, the Manhattan Project came to an explosive end as the first atom bomb was successfully tested in New Mexico.

Environmentalists, railroad workers protest oil trains

July 15, 2015 By Mark Gruenberg

Environmentalists and rank-and-file railroad workers took to the streets protesting continued transportation of oil trains.

After nine-year star trek, NASA spacecraft passes Pluto

July 14, 2015 By Blake Skylar

Applause erupted at NASA's New Horizons control center in the wake of the eponymous spacecraft's flyby of Pluto.