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Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)

Mass mortality events can exacerbate the risk of extinction for species that are prone to Allee effects, particularly species harvested commercially. When speci...

Bad weather hampers aid delivery to Mozambique cyclone survivors

Apr 30, 2019 (AFP)

World Food Programme (WFP) aid its helicopters could not take off in strong rain and wind to bring aid to Ibo, an island of some 13,000 people just off the Moza...

Marines participate in medical readiness training in Puerto Rico

Apr 29, 2019 (UPI)

The IRT's Ola de Esperanza Sanadora from Thursday though May 8 includes members of the Marine Force Reserves, Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Air National Gu...

Rescuers battle to find dozens killed in Myanmar mudslide

Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)

Dozens die each year in landslides caused by jade mining, a poorly regulated industry rife with corruption. The latest disaster struck a mine in Hpakant townshi...

Rescuers battle to find bodies in Myanmar mudslide

Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)

Dozens die each year in landslides caused by jade mining, a poorly regulated industry rife with corruption. The disaster struck the mine in Hpakant township in ...

Passerby in Rio military shooting dies from wounds

Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)

Luciano Macedo happened to be on the street April 7 when a military patrol opened fire on a vehicle they thought was carrying criminals but in fact was a family...

Saudi, UAE send relief aid to flood-stricken Iran

Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)

"The Saudi Red Crescent, as part of a joint Saudi-UAE initiative to alleviate the suffering of Iranian citizens, has dispatched a relief plane to Tehran with 95...

Extinction Rebellion: the green movement with global ambitions

Apr 18, 2019 (AFP)

The climate change pressure group has become a household name in Britain this week amid protests that have brought key parts of the capital to a standstill and ...

Nuclear fuel removed from crippled Japan plant

Apr 15, 2019 (AFP)

The delicate operation represents the first time the Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) has pulled out fuel rods from inside a highly contaminated building contain...

17 more detained over China blast that killed 78

Apr 15, 2019 (AFP)

The explosion in eastern Jiangsu province was one of the worst industrial accidents in the country in recent years and led to the closure of the plant. Police h...

Two dead after apartment buildings collapse in rain-soaked Brazil

Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)

Another seven were injured when the structures in the Muzema favela -- where many of the cheaply-made buildings are erected without permits -- buckled in the ea...

Japan slams WTO ruling on S. Korea Fukushima food row

Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)

The WTO's highest court overturned an earlier judgement from 2018, handing Seoul a final victory in a legal battle that has dragged on for years. "Even though t...

Pentagon awards $976M on two contracts for border wall

Apr 10, 2019 (UPI)

SLSCO Ltd., headquartered in Texas, received a $789 million contract for wall construction in Santa Teresa, N.M., regarded as part of the El Paso sector of the ...

Earth's recovery from mass extinction could take millions of years

Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)

Recovering from mass extinction has a "speed limit", they reveal, with gradual patterns of ecosystem redevelopment and speciation. Just as the planet we now occ...

Earthquake strikes Iran-Iraq border

Apr 01, 2019 (AFP)

The quake struck a region already gripped by massive floods that have cut off entire cities and submerged many villages. More than 40 people were reported kille...

Gun control, climate: a new US generation takes to the barricades

Mar 31, 2019 (AFP)

They may only be teenagers, but both have drawn worldwide followings for their clear messages and fierce commitment -- symbols of a generation of surprising mil...

Disease fears mount for Africa cyclone survivors

Mar 28, 2019 (AFP)

Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique's coast unleashing hurricane-force wind and rain that flooded swathes of the poor country before battering eastern Zimbabwe...

Lebanon sees eastern EU refugee hardline as model to follow

Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)

Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil sympathised with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia's refusal to accept refugee distribution quotas proposed by the...

40 years after meltdown, Three Mile Island plant may shut down

Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)

"It's time to shut it down," said Garver, who was a 40-year-old salesman when the accident occurred on March 28, 1979 and is now retired and pushing 80. "I was ...

US lawmakers challenge Pentagon diversion of $1 bn for border wall

Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)

Less than one day after acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan authorized moving the funds from existing Defense Department projects to border construction, the...