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College Park MD (SPX) Jul 11, 2025 - University of Maryland astronomers discovered that an unexpected blast of space rocks ejected during DART mission carried three times more momentum than the spacecraft itself, leading to new insight
Jul 11, 2025
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 11, 2025 - Chloris Geospatial has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding to advance its satellite-powered forest carbon monitoring solutions. The round was led by Future Energy Ventures, joined by returning i
Jul 11, 2025
Sydney (AFP) July 11, 2025 - Deep-sea mining could impact marine life stretching from the tiniest bottom dwellers to apex predators like swordfish and sharks, a major piece of industry-funded research found Thursday.
Jul 11, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2025 - A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has delivered the first images of an uncharted section of the seafloor near the Mariana Trench, in a mission led by the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Instit
Jul 11, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jul 11, 2025 - War crimes are likely being committed in Sudan, with rape and sexual violence being used as weapons, the International Criminal Court said in a report to the United Nations.
Jul 11, 2025
Lagos (AFP) July 10, 2025 - Nigerian authorities have claimed 30 people from armed criminal gangs died in air strikes in a restive northwestern province this week.
Jul 10, 2025
Copenhagen (AFP) July 10, 2025 - EU environment and climate ministers meeting in Denmark on Thursday tested their blood for forever chemicals linked to serious health risks, in a bid to raise awareness about chemical pollution, Danish and European officials said.
Jul 10, 2025
Tripoli (AFP) July 10, 2025 - The UN mission in Libya called for immediate deescalation, citing reports of armed forces being mobilised in the capital and its surroundings that have raised fears of renewed violence.
Jul 10, 2025
San Jerónimo Purenchecuaro, Mexico (AFP) July 10, 2025 - After decades working as a fisherman on a high-altitude Mexican lake, Froylan Correa is now helping to save an endangered amphibian with gills resembling a lion's mane and a remarkable regenerative ability.
Jul 10, 2025
Hangzhou, China (AFP) July 10, 2025 - In a high-ceilinged room on the outskirts of eastern China's Hangzhou, workers use tongs to slide large blocks of frosty white ice along a metal track into a refrigerated truck.
Jul 10, 2025
Rome (AFP) July 10, 2025 - Italian police said on Thursday they had arrested a man accused of syphoning off water from an aqueduct feeding the fountains and basins of a palace dubbed the Italian Versailles near Naples.
Jul 10, 2025
Paris (AFP) July 9, 2025 - Human-caused climate change made recent European heatwaves up to 4C hotter in many cities, scientists said on Wednesday, pushing temperatures into deadly territory for thousands of vulnerable people.
Jul 9, 2025
Incheon, South Korea (AFP) July 9, 2025 - K-pop's BTS are grossed out by them. A YouTuber ate them. Hikers plough through them: South Korea is dealing with a lovebug invasion that experts say highlights worsening climate change.
Jul 9, 2025
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) July 9, 2025 - Climate disasters such as droughts, wildfires, floods and storms could slash up to five percent off the eurozone's GDP by 2030, economists warned Wednesday in an ECB blog post.
Jul 9, 2025
Beijing (AFP) July 9, 2025 - Ten years ago, human rights lawyer Li Fangping was enjoying a peaceful evening in his hometown in central China with his young son when he heard a knock on the door.
Jul 9, 2025
Kathmandu (AFP) July 9, 2025 - Flash floods that killed at least nine people in a mountainous region between China and Nepal and swept away a key bridge linking the two countries, were caused by the release of water from a glacial lake, experts said Wednesday.
Jul 9, 2025
