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Bangladeshi conservationists said Thursday the discovery of a rare leopard captured by villagers in the southeast of the country renewed hopes for the survival of the critically endangered species. Professor Anwarul Islam, chief executive of Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh, said the three-month-old clouded leopard cub had been released back into the wild. It had been caged by villagers in ... read more 
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Scientists have recorded a decline in winter precipitation over the past 60 years in Spain, and they now forecast that precipitation will also decrease in spring and summer. A team from the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC) has studied rainfall data from 1950 to 2006 and the climate projections for coming decades, showing that less rain will fall in future over the Iberian Peninsula. ... more |
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 Greece orders schools to close as quakes shake Santorini island King Charles III teams up with Amazon for documentary Data centres chase water, energy savings as AI race ramps up Generative AI's environmental impact in figures Scientists cast doubt on famous US groundhog's weather forecasts World's longest cargo sail ship launched in Turkey First major chunk breaks off world's biggest iceberg 
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Washington (AFP) July 22, 2009Governments and scientists around the world ramped up the hunt for a vaccine to battle the swine flu pandemic Wednesday, with Australia launching human trials for a serum. US officials announced they were searching for volunteers to run their own trials of two swine flu vaccines and a Chinese drug company said it would soon test its own preparation to fight the A(H1N1) virus, which has ... more  
Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2009Four people were killed and 53 remained missing after heavy rains triggered a landslide in a remote and mountainous area of southwest China on Thursday, the government said. The victims were construction labourers who had been working on a dam in Kangding county, an area traditionally populated by ethnic Tibetans in Sichuan province, according to a statement on the civil affairs ministry's ... more  
Esteli, Nicaragua (AFP) July 24, 2009Honduras's de facto government shut its southern border with Nicaragua Thursday, hoping to block President Manuel Zelaya's bid to return home a month after he was ousted in a coup. Zelaya on Thursday completed the first stage of a dramatic bid to end his military-imposed exile, traveling to the border town of Esteli, northern Nicaragua, and vowing to cross the nearby frontier on Friday or Sa ... more 
Phuket, Thailand (AFP) July 23, 2009The United States held an unprecedented meeting Thursday with countries from the lower Mekong basin in what Washington said showed its commitment to combating climate change in Asia. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with the foreign ministers of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in the Thai island of Phuket during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum. ... more |
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Flexential Links Up with Lonestar to Support First Commercial Space Data CenterLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2025 Flexential, a prominent provider of secure and adaptive data center solutions, has joined forces with Lonestar Data Holdings Inc. (Lonestar), a leading innovator in lunar infrastructure and Resilien ... more  
Surrey Satellite Opens Advanced Imaging R&D CleanroomLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2025 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has officially opened its advanced Research and Development Imaging Cleanroom at its Guildford headquarters. This new facility is designed to strengthen the co ... more 
Bright Ascension software powers Czech Republic's largest satellite missionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2025 Bright Ascension Ltd., a leading provider of space software technology, has announced the successful deployment of its software aboard the Czech Republic's largest satellite, TROLL. The satellite wa ... more
  
Exploring ethical dimensions of aware AI in UppsalaParis, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2025 Artificially intelligent systems are increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, from automated vehicles to delivery robots and virtual assistants. As research shifts towards developing systems with ... more 
Young Chinese turn to AI pets for emotional reliefBeijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2025 At a shopping mall in Beijing, Zhang Yachun murmurs quietly to her closest confidant, a fluffy AI-powered robot whose soothing chirps remind her that she is not alone. ... more 
Robots should be repurposed to combat e-waste crisisLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 17, 2025 Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of West England have urged the robotics industry to focus on developing robots that can be reprogrammed and repurposed for alternative t ... more
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Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2009Chinese police have detained family members of a man whose death last month sparked a riot that resulted in thousands of people clashing with security forces, the government and media said Thursday. At least five relatives of Tu Yuangao have been detained and several others questioned by police in Shishou city, in the central province of Hubei, for their alleged roles in the unrest ... more 
Kathmandu (AFP) July 23, 2009A remote region of Nepal is hoping to improve local sanitation by asking everyone who applies for a citizenship card or passport whether they have a toilet at home, an official said Thursday. Authorities in the rural midwestern district of Surkhet say only one in three households there has a toilet, below the national average of 45 percent, while the district headquarters has only one public ... more 
Mexico City (AFP) July 23, 2009Mexico's first known swine flu case was a six-month-old baby girl in a northern part of the country who had no known contact with pig farms, the head of a laboratory studying the virus told AFP Thursday. "It's a six-month-old baby girl from San Luis Potosi who is alive" and first showed symptoms of the new strain of the influenza A(H1N1) virus on February 24, said Celia Alpuche of the ... more  
Algiers, Algeria (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali, a desolate state in the Sahara Desert south of Algeria, has vowed "a total struggle against al-Qaida" after marauding Algerian jihadists killed 28 of his soldiers in a new offensive across the region. It remains to be seen whether Toure's July 7 declaration of war will be sustained, although on June 17 the Malian army announced that it had killed ... more |
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GHGSAT Selected as Copernicus Contributing Mission by ESA and EU
Launch of the most comprehensive European wetland map
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