Equifax to pay $700 million to resolve data-breach probes

WNM | Jul 22, 2019 at 4:20 PM

Equifax Inc. on Monday struck a settlement of up to $700 million to resolve investigations and lawsuits stemming from its 2017 data breach that exposed the personal data of nearly 150 million Americans.

Geoscientists discover mechanisms controlling Greenland ice sheet collapse

WNM | Jul 20, 2019 at 11:28 AM

Greenland’s more than 860,000 square miles are largely covered with ice and glaciers, and its melting fuels as much as one-third of the sea level rise in Florida. That’s why a team of University of South Florida geoscientists’ new discovery of one of the mechanisms that allows Greenland’s glaciers to collapse into the sea has special significance for the Sunshine State.