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Raging forest fires in western Canada have forced 10,000 people to evacuate their homes with thousands more poised to flee the flames that began consuming thousands of acres at the weekend, local officials said. "Right now there are over 10,000 people who have been evacuated... and then we've got over 6,000 people on evacuation alert," said Jenelle Turpin, an Emergency Operations Center ... read more 
Tegucigalpa (AFP) July 20, 2009There were fears civil war was brewing Monday in Honduras after weekend talks between the country's rival governments collapsed over ousted President Manuel Zelaya's demand he be returned to power. "We have started organizing internal resistance for my return to the country," Zelaya told reporters in Nicaragua, where he has been based since his forced exile on June 28 by the Honduran army. ... more |
What we know about the North Sea tanker collision
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Baghdad (AFP) July 20, 2009Iraq's water resources ministry on Monday called for talks with neighbouring Turkey and Syria after the flow of water in the Euphrates river fell by more than half in less than a month. The ministry is aiming for "an urgent meeting with ministers and experts from the three countries concerned this coming August to discuss the sharing of water and the fluctuation of flows to Iraq," a ... more  
Chicago (AFP) July 20, 2009Fish have lost half their average body mass and smaller species are making up a larger proportion of European fish stocks as a result of global warming, a study published Monday has found. "It's huge," said study author Martin Daufresne of the Cemagref Public Agricultural and Environmental Research Institute in Lyon, France. "Size is a fundamental characteristic that is linked to a ... more 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jul 21, 2009Suspending a life in time is a theme that normally finds itself in the pages of science fiction, but now such ideas have become a reality in the annals of science. Cornell ecologist Nelson Hairston Jr. is a pioneer in a field known loosely as "resurrection ecology," in which researchers study the eggs of such creatures as zooplankton - tiny, free-floating water animals - that get buried in ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 20, 2009For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that raindrops start as micro-droplets that then gather together in clouds with their neighbours to become bigger droplets. Complex interaction between these droplets as they fall explains why raindrops come in such a remarkable range of sizes, goes this idea. But French scientists armed with ultra-fast video footage say something else ... more |
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KP Labs Unveils Smart Mission Lab to Revolutionize Space Technology ValidationBerlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 KP Labs has launched Smart Mission Lab, an innovative platform aimed at transforming the development and testing of AI models and onboard data processing for space missions. Supported by ESA InCubed ... more  
Goonhilly Provides Critical Communications for Lunar Mission, Advancing Moon EconomyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2025 Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd continues to play a pivotal role in lunar exploration and infrastructure expansion, reinforcing its importance in humanity's return to the Moon. Goonhilly is delive ... more 
Spire Establishes Two-Way Optical Link Between Satellites in OrbitLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2025 Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR), a leading provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, has successfully demonstrated a two-way optical communication link between two satellites in o ... more
  
Alibaba shares surge after launch of new DeepSeek competitorBeijing (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 Alibaba shares surged more than seven percent in Hong Kong trade on Thursday after the Chinese tech giant launched an artificial intelligence model it says can compete with DeepSeek, this year's surprise tech star. ... more 
Christie's first AI art auction sees hits... and plenty of missesNew York (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Christie's first auction of art made by artificial intelligence (AI) ended Wednesday with mixed results, providing scant clues as to the future of the new and controversial medium. ... more 
Amazon Prime Video tests AI-assisted dubbingSan Francisco (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Amazon's Prime Video streaming service announced Wednesday it will begin testing AI-assisted dubbing to make its international content more accessible to viewers worldwide. ... more
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Rome (UPI) Jul 20, 2009 Good cereal harvests and a sharp decline in international grain prices have not had any impact on domestic food prices in developing countries, which remain very high and are a major source of hardship for millions, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday. Erwin Northoff, FAO spokesman, told United Press International the organization remained optimistic the next World ... more  
New Delhi (UPI) Jul 20, 2009 India and the United States have agreed on partnerships regarding energy efficiency, but India is standing firm on legal limits on greenhouse gases as a result of climate-change talks between the two countries. uring her first official visit to India, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met for closed-door sessions Sunday with India's Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam ... more 
London (AFP) July 20, 2009Britain announced plans Monday to vaccinate half the population against swine flu by year's end as Russian health officials warned the virus was now affecting all parts of Europe's largest country. As dozens more British students were quarantined in Beijing over fears they may have A(H1N1), Health Secretary Andy Burnham told members of the London parliament that the government expected to ... more 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 21, 2009All reservoirs along the Colorado River might dry up by mid-century as the West warms, a new study finds. The probability of such a severe shortage by then runs as high as one-in-two, unless current water-management practices change, the researchers report. The study's coauthors looked at the effects of a range of reductions in Colorado River stream flow on future reservoir levels and ... more |
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