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A huge volcanic eruption in China some 260 million years ago led to the sudden extermination of marine life clear around the world, British paleontologists announced Thursday, in a report being published this week in the journal Science. The researchers were able to pinpoint the exact timing of the massive eruption thanks to a layer of fossilized rock which showed mass extinction of ... read more 
Chicago IL (AFP) May 29, 2009The global swine flu death toll marched past 100 on Wednesday with one new fatality reported in the United States and four more in Mexico, the two countries where the first outbreaks were reported. Prior to the latest North American deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) had reported the global toll at 95, with 13,398 people in 48 countries infected with the A(H1N1) virus since it was ... more |
Australian 'green' hydrogen project under threat
Norway nears 100% goal of all-electric cars CORRECTED: Electric cars take 96% of Norway market in January CORRECTED: Electric cars make up 96% of Norway's new cars in January CORRECTED Electric cars take 96% of Norway market in January Wildfires burning in Argentine Patagonia kills man, hundreds evacuate Flooding in Sicily as month's rain falls in four hours Greece on high alert as quakes shake Santorini island Global warming makes French reservoir a winter resort for migrating cranes 
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Sydney, Australia (AFP) May 29, 2009A cruise ship carrying three crew infected with swine flu was Thursday turned away from a north Australian port as authorities commissioned 10 million doses of vaccine and confirmed cases rose to 147. The P and O liner Pacific Dawn was asked to cut short its trip to the Great Barrier Reef and northern Queensland, and passengers would not allowed to disembark, state premier Anna Bligh said. ... more  
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) May 28, 2009Heavy rain in northeast Brazil broke open a dam, releasing a wall of water that destroyed 500 homes and killed four people, officials said Thursday. The government of the northeastern state of Piaui said the damage wrought Wednesday by the breach outside the town of Cocal left an estimated 2,500 people homeless. Four people, including a 12-year-old girl, died when the waters in the ... more  
Hanoi (AFP) May 28, 2009Five people, including three children, were killed as heavy rain lashed Vietnam's northern Nghe An province, an official said Thursday. "The five were killed in a landslide overnight on Tuesday in the Yen Tinh district," said Vi Van Hoi, vice-president of Tuong Duong district council. "More than 800 millimetres (31 inches) of rain has fallen on the province over the last few days and it ... more  
Porong, Indonesia (AFP) May 28, 2009With no justice from her government, Indonesian villager Parti has her own plans for the company executives blamed for unleashing a mud volcano that buried her village three years ago. Throw them in the steaming, stinking sludge and let them burn, she says. "Let them burn to death so they can feel my suffering," said the 55-year-old mother of two, one of thousands of bitter victims who ... more |
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SPACE ISAC expands member benefits with access to new testbeds networkLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2025 The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Space ISAC) has announced a major new benefit for its members: access to the Accelerating Space Capabilities 100 (ASC-100), an international networ ... more  
Australian innovation detects space phenomena with new technologySydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 The first trial of CRACO, a cutting-edge Australian-developed technology, has uncovered mysterious cosmic objects by analyzing space signals with unprecedented precision. Developed by astronom ... more 
South Korea, Ireland watchdogs to question DeepSeek on user dataSeoul (AFP) Jan 31, 2025 Data watchdogs in South Korea and Ireland said Friday they would ask Chinese AI startup DeepSeek to clarify how it manages users' personal information, as governments from around the world turned a spotlight on the service. ... more
  
UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debateLondon (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 Britain's first teacherless AI classroom may be an "outlier", but it underlines the potential benefits and risks of a UK government drive to rollout artificial intelligence in education, experts say. ... more 
Life as a chain of machines constructing machinesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 03, 2025 The question of what defines life continues to challenge the biological sciences, with its vast complexity and diversity making it difficult to distill into a single definition. A new study proposes ... more 
OpenAI announces new 'deep research' tool for ChatGPTTokyo (AFP) Feb 3, 2025 US tech giant OpenAI on Monday unveiled a ChatGPT tool called "deep research" that can produce detailed reports, as China's DeepSeek chatbot heats up competition in the AI field. ... more
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Khartoum (AFP) May 28, 2009Sudan's armed forces on Thursday retook the Darfur town of Kornoy, near the border with Chad, which had fallen into rebel hands of rebels last week, an army spokesman said. Troops "have complete control" of the Kornoy area, which liesabout 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the border in northwest Darfur, Othman al-Aghbash told the Sudanese Media Centre, which is close to the intelligence service ... more 
Miami (AFP) May 28, 2009The first tropical depression of the north Atlantic's hurricane season formed Thursday and forecasters said it would likely reach tropical storm strength before petering out over open seas. "The depression is forecast to become a tropical storm over the next day or so, but then is expected to weaken or dissipate over colder waters by Saturday," the National Hurricane Center said. At 1500 ... more  
Moscow (AFP) May 28, 2009Russian naval bosses said Thursday that pirates among 29 it captured on a so-called mother ship off Somalia have been handed over to Iranian and Pakistani investigators, news agencies reported. "At the start of May, after having conducted preliminary enquiries aboard the Admiral Panteleev (destroyer)... one group of pirates held were delivered to Iranian authorities and another to Pakistan," ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2009Relatives of people killed when China crushed the Tiananmen protests called Thursday for help in finding out what happened to victims unaccounted for, days ahead of the 20th anniversary of the crackdown. The "Tiananmen Mothers," a group of 128 relatives, also asked for an investigation into the military's actions on June 3-4, 1989, when tanks rolled towards Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds ... more |
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NASA radar imagery highlights expanding landslide activity in Los Angeles
GHGSAT Selected as Copernicus Contributing Mission by ESA and EU
Greenland ice crevasses escalate fueling further rise in sea levels |
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