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Hue, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Thousands of people in Vietnam were evacuated from their homes after record rainfall of more than one metre in 24 hours submerged a central city, the environment ministry said Tuesday.
Oct 28, 2025
Kingston, Jamaica (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Hurricane Melissa ripped up trees and knocked out power after making landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday as one of the most powerful hurricanes on record, inundating the island nation with rains that threaten flash floods and landslides.
Oct 28, 2025
Kingston, Jamaica (AFP) Oct 28, 2025 - Melissa could be the worst hurricane Jamaica has experienced since recordkeeping began - but some residents on the Caribbean island say they will believe it when they see it.
Oct 28, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 - Peatlands, which cover only 3 percent of the planet's surface, are responsible for storing over 30 percent of the world's soil carbon, acting as important natural reservoirs for thousands of years.
Oct 27, 2025
London, UK (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 - A new study from Queen Mary University of London reveals buoyant plastic debris could remain at ocean surfaces for more than a century. Researchers constructed a model to track how these plastics mo
Oct 27, 2025
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 27, 2025 - Thousands of devotees waded into the foul waters of the Yamuna river in the Indian capital Monday for a Hindu festival, amid political wrangling over the sacred but severely polluted waterway.
Oct 27, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 - A new genetic analysis challenges previous assumptions regarding the origin of the so-called London Underground Mosquito, revealing that its adaptation to dense human settlements began more than a t
Oct 27, 2025
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Oct 27, 2025 - Paramilitary forces' claimed capture of El-Fasher, a city in Sudan's Darfur, could mark a turning point in the country's two-year war and stoke fears the country could again be split a decade after losing South Sudan in 2011, analysts warn.
Oct 27, 2025
Sydney (AFP) Oct 27, 2025 - An Australian freshwater Murray cod has surprised scientists by swimming a marathon 860 kilometres (530 miles) along a major river system - believed to be a record for the species.
Oct 27, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 - New radiometric dating from a contested fossil site in New Mexico has established that dinosaurs remained both abundant and regionally varied right up until the Cretaceous asteroid impact sixty six
Oct 27, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 - A team of researchers at ETH Zurich has discovered that Madagascar's dramatic topography and exceptional biodiversity can be traced to a pair of ancient rifting events separated by nearly 80 million
Oct 27, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 - Researchers from Rice University have demonstrated that Jupiter's initial expansion played a pivotal role in organizing the developing solar system. Using advanced hydrodynamic and dust-evolution si
Oct 27, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 - Mangrove forests in Eastern Visayas, Philippines, have been identified as powerful contributors to both climate mitigation and community wealth, according to a landmark study led by Dr. Hannah Alexi
Oct 27, 2025
Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2025 - Fueled by abnormally warm Caribbean waters, Hurricane Melissa exploded into a Category 5 cyclone while moving at little more than a strolling pace - a dangerous mix that could amplify its impacts through relentless rain, storm surge and wind.
Oct 27, 2025
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 27, 2025 - Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has won a fourth term, securing a crushing 89.77 percent in a vote which his two greatest rivals were barred from, the electoral commission said Monday.
Oct 27, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 - GomSpace has entered into an 8.4 million SEK agreement with SPACEBEL to implement the Juventas Operations segment for the European Space Agency's Hera mission. The partnership will utilize HOOP Miss
Oct 27, 2025
