Theresa May, Prime Minister of Britain calls a snap election but fails to acquire a majority of seats in the House of Commons. This puts Britain's exit of the Europeon Union in disarray.

Retail stores are closing at an epic pace. In fact, the retail industry could suffer far more store closures this year than ever.

Brokerage firm Credit Suisse said in a research report released earlier this month that it's possible more than 8,600 brick-and-mortar stores will close their doors in 2017.

For comparison, the report says 2,056 stores closed down in 2016 and 5,077 were shuttered in 2015. The worst year on record is 2008, when 6,163 stores shut down.

Artificial intellegence is here.. ! Tiny orange robots which can sort up to 200,000 packages every DAY in a Chinese warehouse are providing an alarming glimpse of what the future could hold in factories around the world.

The Dow soared 303 points to close above 21,000 for the first time ever on first of March. The milestone comes barely a month after the Dow hit 20,000 for the first time.

Robot adoption varies by country, with China, the United States, South Korea, Germany and Japan currently buying up 80 percent of industrial robots. The fastest rate of adoption is occurring in East Asia, led by South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand with expected ROI vs human labour to be 14 % better and climbing.

World's first floating wind farm emerges off coast of Scotland

Waterloo will be the home of a pilot program that will turn dog waste into energy, using a process called anaerobic digestion that happens when organic waste breaks down in an environment without oxygen.

In just one year, the cost of solar generation worldwide dropped on average 17 percent. The average costs for onshore wind dropped 18 percent last year, while those for offshore wind fell a whopping 28 percent.

India’s total wind capacity currently stands at around 32,177 MW.

Printing solar cells may soon be as easy and inexpensive as printing a newspaper, thanks to researchers at the University of Toronto who have cleared a critical manufacturing hurdle in the development of a new class of solar devices.

Having sex once or twice a week seems to prevent persons having the common cold.

The little blue pill that’s helped millions of men in the bedroom is turning white. Drugmaker Pfizer is launching its own cheaper generic version of Viagra rather than lose most sales when the impotence pill gets its first generic competition.

A hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms can "reset" the brains of people with untreatable depression, raising hopes of a future treatment, scans suggest.

Scientists are building DNA from scratch to alter life’s blueprint.

There were 35 deaths caused by measles in European countries in the last year – an "unacceptable tragedy", according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread, the World Health Organization says.

New biologic drugs target the root of asthma.

Prostate cancer hormone treatment 'could help more patients' 

Canadian scientists say they have discovered the first new antibiotic in three decades, and that their research suggests

 it may be effective at killing two of the most worrisome superbugs.

The year 2017 is "very likely" to be in the top three warmest years on record, according to provisional figures from the World Meteorological Organization.
  

Paris to ban all gas-powered cars by 2030.

Mid September a 7.5 equake strikes Mexico and kills 200 + people. 

Noted that there were 650,000 electric vehicles sold in 2016. 

Early September Hurricane Irma a Category 5 storm hits the Caribbean islands and moves inland right up the Florida panhanle leaving 75 dead and billions needed to repair houses and businesses.

In late August, Hurricane Harvey hit the southern coast of Texas bringing flooding rains for 4 days to Hueston the fourth largest city in United States.  Rainfall exceeded 52 inches, left 60+ people dead and the cost to repair is estimated at 160 billion dollars.

After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 6,214 miles, the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage.

A trillion-tonne iceberg four times the size of London has snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf.

Volvo says all of its cars will use electricity after 2019

Climate change issues will cause airline prices to increase.

Study shows Earth’s killer heat is worsening.

Earth broke an alarming record and reached a dangerous climate change milestone, when Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory recorded carbon dioxide (CO2) levels at 410 parts per million (ppm) on April 18. CO2 levels have not reached this high in millions of years. In fact, such a level was recorded for the first time in human history.

Residents of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area can sign up to go for a ride in a self-driving minivan. As often as they want. For free.

Norway has the most electric cars per capita than any other country in the world.

In London England electric powered taxis will replace the present diesel powered ones in 2018.

The world experienced its hottest year in 2016, a trend that contributed to the wildfires that decimated parts of Alberta and appears to already be worsening, according to a global analysis.

Did you know that the first commercial use of a driverless transport was a truckload of beer in Colorado?

Tesla delivers its first 30 Model 3s in historic moment.

The British prime minister estimates 600 highrise buildings in England have cladding made of materials similar to what was found in a devastating west London fire that killed at least 79 people.

Tesla Motors Inc. begins delivery of its emission-free vehicles to South Korean customers in southwestern Seoul.

Amazon.com buys Whole Foods for 13.4 billion dollars.

In the USA the number of people working from home is now at 43 percent.

According to the latest figures out of the International Wine and Spirits Research group out of the U.K., the global market for alcoholic drinks shrunk by -1.3 per cent in 2016. Compared to the average rate of -0.3 per cent in the previous five years, the decline is increasing at a faster rate than previously projected, analysts say.

The Canadian government will legalize marijuana by July 2018.

Shares in United Airlines slipped by close to 3% as the company scrambled to address a video showing a passenger being forcibly dragged off an overbooked flight.

 California DMV will allow self-driving cars with no human on board. 

Perhaps love and marriage don’t go together like a horse and carriage after all. A new study finds that older Americans looking for love are latching onto a new trend that tempers the demands of a committed relationship, a phenomenon known as “Living Apart Together,” or “LAT.”