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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2025 NASA's super pressure balloon has successfully achieved float altitude following its launch from Wanaka Airport in New Zealand at 10:44 a.m. NZST on April 17 (6:44 p.m. EDT, April 16). Designed to navigate the mid-latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, the mission aims to remain airborne for 100 days or longer, marking a major milestone for NASA's long-duration ballooning efforts. The massive, helium-filled balloon, equivalent in size to a football stadium with a volume of 18.8 million cubic feet, ... read more |
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'The voice of god': Filipinos wrestle with death of Pope FrancisManila (AFP) April 21, 2025 Church bells rang out across the Philippines early Monday evening as Asia's bastion of Catholicism mourned the death of Pope Francis. ... more  
Sunscreen and shelter strategies may have shielded early humans from solar radiationLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2025 Ancient Homo sapiens likely gained a survival edge during a magnetic upheaval 41,000 years ago by adopting innovative methods of sun protection, including tailored clothing, cave habitation, and the ... more  
Tentative tree planting 'decades overdue' in sweltering AthensAthens (AFP) April 22, 2025 On a cloudy spring morning in one of Athens' most densely inhabited districts, thousands of fresh saplings dotting a small hilltop park mark a fledgling effort to tackle crippling heat that critics say is long overdue. ... more  
Morocco volunteers on Sahara clean-up missionM'Hamid El Ghizlane, Morocco (AFP) April 22, 2025 It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the environment - the rubbish humanity discards. ... more |
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Burkina junta says foiled plot to sow 'total chaos'Abidjan (AFP) April 22, 2025 Burkina Faso's military junta claimed Monday to have foiled a "major plot in the making" aimed at "sowing total chaos", saying it believed the masterminds were in neighbouring Ivory Coast. ... more |
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US offers $5M reward for information leading to arrest, conviction of MS-13 leaderWashington DC (UPI) Apr 22, 2025 The U.S. government is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the arrest or conviction of the leader of foreign terrorist organization MS-13, the State Department announced Monday. ... more 
A visual pathway in the brain may do more than recognize objectsBoston MA (SPX) Apr 16, 2025 When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that one of these pathways, the ventr ... more  
Aitech launches compact AI-powered satellite platform for next-gen Earth and space intelligenceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025 Built upon more than three decades of space-proven electronic systems and trillions of miles of cumulative flight heritage, Aitech has introduced the IQSat, an ultra-compact, AI-enabled picosatellit ... more  
EarthDaily Prepares to Launch Advanced Change Detection SatelliteLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 14, 2025 EarthDaily Analytics has reached a pivotal milestone in its mission to transform Earth Observation capabilities. The company has completed integration and environmental testing of its first payload ... more |
NASA Announces Call for New Computing Approaches to Earth ScienceWashington DC (SPX) Apr 15, 2025 In an open challenge, NASA is seeking innovative business models that propose new approaches to solving complex Earth science problems using unconventional computing methods and is holding an inform ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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Uncovering energy inefficiencies in hydrogen productionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2025 In the quest for sustainable energy, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is a key step toward producing clean hydrogen fuel. However, this process remains less efficient than theoretical models ... more 
France weighs options after Algeria expels 12 French embassy staff in AlgiersWashington DC (UPI) Apr 14, 2025 Tensions between France and Algeria seemingly escalated after Algerian officials requested 12 French embassy to leave its borders within 48 hours, according to France's foreign affairs minister. ... more  
'Pandora's box': alarm bells in Indonesia over rising military roleJakarta (AFP) April 20, 2025 Greater military influence in government, reporters under threat and a stuttering economy - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's first six months in power have triggered alarm bells for activists worried about a return to the country's authoritarian roots. ... more 
Equatorial Guinea denies sending Russia troops to fight in UkraineMalabo, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) April 19, 2025 Equatorial Guinea's vice president on Saturday denied the central African country was sending troops to fight alongside Russian soldiers in Ukraine, contrary to an AFP report published earlier this week. ... more |
Six drowning deaths as huge waves hit Australian coastSydney (AFP) April 20, 2025 A fisherman died after being swept off rocks near Sydney on Sunday, stretching the Easter weekend death toll of drownings to six as huge waves battered Australia's east coast. ... more  
Lion kills 14-year-old girl in KenyaNairobi (AFP) April 20, 2025 A lion has killed a 14-year-old girl outside the capital Nairobi, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said on Sunday. ... more  
Gazans resort to turtle meat in hunt for foodKhan Yunis, Palestinian Territories (AFP) April 19, 2025 With food scarce in the besieged and war-battered Gaza Strip, some desperate families have turned to eating sea turtles as a rare source of protein. ... more 
Exec linked to Bangkok building collapse arrestedBangkok (AFP) April 20, 2025 Thai authorities said they have arrested a Chinese executive at a company that was building a Bangkok skyscraper which collapsed in a major earthquake, leaving dozens dead. ... more |
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Women protesters in G.Bissau torch Chinese-run mine Bissau (AFP) April 20, 2025 Women protesters in Guinea-Bissau on Sunday attacked a Chinese-run site in the northwest of the country mining zircon, setting fire to equipment, the interior minister and witnesses told AFP. ... more 
Gunmen disguised as soldiers kill 12 people at Ecuador cockfightQuito (AFP) April 19, 2025 Criminals dressed in fake military uniforms opened fire on spectators at a cockfight in rural Ecuador, killing 12 unarmed people and wounding several others, police in the violence-plagued South American nation said Friday. ... more  
Four killed after spring storms wreak havoc in the AlpsSaint-Julien-Mont-Denis, France (AFP) April 18, 2025 Alpine ski resorts were getting back to normal on Friday after spring storms the previous day claimed four victims in the French Alps and northern Italy, including a British holidaymaker. ... more  
White House site blames China for Covid-19 'lab leak'Washington (AFP) April 18, 2025 The White House on Friday unveiled a revamped Covid-19 website that promoted the contentious theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory, framing it as the pandemic's "true origins." ... more |
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India's elephant warning system tackles deadly conflictDhawalpur, India (AFP) April 18, 2025 In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping prevent some of the hundreds of fatal tramplings each year. ... more |
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Trump allows commercial fishing in vast Pacific reserveWashington (AFP) April 18, 2025 Commercial fishing will be allowed in a gigantic marine reserve home to one of the world's most vulnerable ecosystems in the middle of the Pacific under an executive order signed Thursday by President Donald Trump. ... more  
Heavy metals contaminate up to 17% of world's arable land: studyWashington (AFP) April 17, 2025 Up to 17 percent of cropland worldwide is contaminated with at least one type of toxic heavy metal, posing health risks to up to 1.4 billion people, scientists warned Thursday. ... more  
Where are all the aliens?: Fermi's Paradox explainedParis (AFP) April 17, 2025 Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising hints yet of life on a distant planet. ... more 
Somalia air strikes, combat kill dozens of jihadists; Niger stiffens Burkina borderMogadishu (AFP) April 17, 2025 Joint US-Somalia air strikes and combat killed dozens of Al-Shabaab jihadists attacking a key town and a military base and also destroyed a shipment of weapons, the Somali government said on Thursday. ... more |
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