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In the heart of Navajo country, pupils work for greener future

Mar 25, 2018 (AFP)

Classes at the STAR School, on the edge of the vast Navajo Nation reserve, are divided between English and -- when the fast-paced curriculum allows -- the local...

Chinese sailors rescued alive after Malaysia capsize

Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)

The rescued crew were "conscious but weak", said coastguard official Sanifah Yusof, after being trapped in the JBB Rong Chang 8 since it overturned Wednesday. T...

Fearing worst, French 'preppers' gear up for the Day After

Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)

"I'm preparing myself for risks, floods, earthquakes, avalanches or social breakdown," says the sixty-something father, hunter and self-styled survivor from the...

Species in decline worldwide, humans at risk

Mar 23, 2018 (AFP)

Asia-Pacific fish stocks may run out by 2048 and more than half of Africa's bird and mammal species could be lost by 2100 unless drastic measures are taken, acc...

Superheroes to the rescue of storm-battered Puerto Rico

Mar 21, 2018 (AFP)

There's Batman, and Wonder Woman, of course, and also a Puerto Rican-inspired female hero named La Borinquena. Their mission is to help reconstruct the US islan...

When natural disaster strikes, can insects and other invertebrates recover?

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Cameron University compared the invertebrate community before and after the flood and found a 93 percent decrease ...

ASEAN leaders tackle Rohingya crisis and urge South China Sea calm

Mar 18, 2018 (AFP)

Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at the three-day meeting in Sydney, also agreed to work more closely to tackle the growing menace of vi...

Natural disasters can decimate insect, invertebrate populations

Mar 15, 2018 (UPI)

New research suggests natural disasters can have a significant impact on the abundance and diversity of small species. When researchers surveyed insects and inv...

Australian, Cambodian trainers die in demining accident

Mar 15, 2018 (AFP)

The two dead were trainers teaching soldiers how to detect mines in an area where Cambodia's bitter civil wars have left a deadly legacy of unexploded mines. Th...

Court orders Japan government to pay new Fukushima damages

Mar 15, 2018 (AFP)

The Kyoto district court ordered the government and power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) to pay 110 million yen in damages to 110 local resident...

Rise of violent Buddhist rhetoric in Asia defies stereotypes

Mar 12, 2018 (AFP)

Buddhist mobs in Sri Lanka last week led anti-Muslim riots that left at least three dead and more than 200 Muslim-owned establishments in ruins, just the latest...

White House to help arm school staff: officials

Mar 12, 2018 (AFP)

The controversial idea to put weapons in schools, which has drawn little support from educators, is part of a "pragmatic plan to dramatically increase school sa...

'Citizen scientists' track radiation seven years after Fukushima

Mar 11, 2018 (AFP)

The machine is sending data to Safecast, an NGO born after the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster that says it has now built the world's largest radiation da...

Over 250 migrants rescued off Libya coast: navy

Mar 10, 2018 (AFP)

"We were alerted... to the position of a migrant boat" around 30 kilometres (20 miles) off Zawiya, west of Tripoli, navy captain Rami al-Hadi Ghomed said. He sa...

Weather satellites aid search and rescue capabilities

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

The recently launched GOES-S (planned to replace the current GOES-West later this year) and other GOES series satellites carry a payload supported by NASA's Sea...

Belgium distributes iodine pills in case of nuclear accident

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

The government also launched a website in the country's official languages French, Dutch and German to tell people what to do in an emergency as it began implem...

At the UN, a diplomatic dance decides the fate of nations

Mar 03, 2018 (AFP)

But when world diplomats are building towards a weighty decision, almost any diplomatic tactic seems fair game, even sleight of hand. All the envoys in endless ...

Baby born on British roadside after snow blocks hospital dash

Mar 02, 2018 (AFP)

The child was named Sienna but quickly earned her own social media hashtag "#A66snowbaby", referencing the name of the road in northern England where her mother...

New evidence of nuclear fuel releases found at Fukushima

Mar 02, 2018 (SPX)

This could mean the environmental impact from the fallout may last much longer than previously expected according to a new study by a team of international rese...

Mobile phones help transform disaster relief

Mar 01, 2018 (AFP)

At the same time, mobile apps that need just a few taps of the finger to make a donation are becoming an increasingly important source of funding to relief effo...