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Large mammals do use road crossing structures
Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers evaluated the effectiveness of wildlife crossing structures along Highway 93 in Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, USA to find out how wildli...
New theory rewrites opening moments of Chernobyl disaster
Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)
The new theory suggests the first of the two explosions reported by eyewitnesses was a nuclear and not a steam explosion, as is currently widely thought and is ...
EU's top diplomat 'encouraged' by Rohingya talks with Suu Kyi
Nov 20, 2017 (AFP)
Federica Mogherini joined a stream of diplomats to meet Suu Kyi in recent days as efforts intensify to resolve a crisis that has pushed 620,000 members of the M...
Protesters march in solidarity with hurricane-hit Puerto Rico
Nov 19, 2017 (AFP)
Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico in September, ravaging the US territory's infrastructure. Some 50 percent of its population of 3.4 million people still...
Hundreds of Haitians protest government corruption
Nov 19, 2017 (AFP)
While there were no immediate reports of injuries, protesters burned tires, blocked roads and set fire to a truck carrying refrigerators. Some banged on percuss...
Deadly Beijing fire prompts investigation and demolitions
Nov 19, 2017 (AFP)
Authorities are still probing the cause of the Saturday night blaze that also injured eight people, according to a statement from the Beijing city government. T...
China to help resolve Rohingya crisis: Bangladesh
Nov 18, 2017 (AFP)
More than 600,000 Rohingya are languishing in Bangladeshi refugee camps after fleeing a brutal Myanmar army campaign launched in late August. The UN says the sc...
Head of Puerto Rico power authority resigns
Nov 18, 2017 (AFP)
Governor Ricardo Rossello told a news conference that Ricardo Ramos had resigned as executive director of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to avoid "dis...
Network Innovations Delivers Hurricane Relief Via Satellite
Nov 17, 2017 (SPX)
As experience over the past few years has shown, land-based communications services often are unavailable for days and even weeks following a natural disaster. ...
UN urges end to Myanmar attacks against Rohingya
Nov 16, 2017 (AFP)
The General Assembly's human rights committee overwhelmingly endorsed the measure presented by Muslim countries by a vote of 135 to 10, with 26 countries abstai...
US chemical plants must prepare for more Harveys: official
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
"Our message is you do have to reassess your worst-case scenario," US Chemical Safety Board director Vanessa Allen Sutherland said in a briefing on the probe of...
Chimps alarm their friends when poisonous snakes are nearby
Nov 15, 2017 (UPI)
The findings, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, suggest chimps are capable of a more advanced combination of communication and cooperation th...
Canada announces rapid response force for peacekeeping
Nov 15, 2017 (AFP)
Details of the plan -- part of a long-awaited announcement by the government in Ottawa -- however still need to be sorted out with the United Nations, and the t...
Nuclear tax refund keeps RWE on track for 2017
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
The Essen-based group recorded a net profit of 2.2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) between January and September, compared with just 11 million euros over the same...
Sandy Hook families renew legal push against gun maker
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
The killings at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut -- which claimed the lives of mostly children aged between six and seven in less than five minut...
Dimming Sun's rays to cool planet will affect storms too: study
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
Depending on the hemisphere in which such aerosols are released, hurricanes in the North Atlantic would become weaker or stronger, they reported in Nature Commu...
Iran scrambles to aid victims of killer quake
Nov 14, 2017 (AFP)
As the country marked a day of mourning, President Hassan Rouhani promised swift help following the 7.3-magnitude quake that struck a mountainous region spannin...
Climate change imperils one in four UNESCO natural sites
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
The number of UNESCO natural sites at risk has grown to 62 from 35 in 2014, when one in seven were listed, according to the International Union for Conservation...
15,000 scientists say threats to planet now 'far worse'
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
More than 15,000 global scientists from 184 countries signed on to the letter, called the "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice," published in...
Fuel removal device installed at meltdown-hit Fukushima reactor
Nov 13, 2017 (AFP)
The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), said it started putting a crane on the roof of unit No. 3 on Sunday to extract a total of 566 rods from i...
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