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66,000 workplace deaths in China last year: report
Dec 22, 2016 (AFP)
China saw 66,000 workplace deaths in 2015 despite strengthened legislation, Chinese authorities said, highlighting often dangerous labour conditions in the worl...
58,000 people died on Chinese roads in 2015: report
Dec 22, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese roads saw 58,000 deaths in more than 180,000 traffic accidents in 2015, authorities said, adding that poor enforcement of traffic laws still posed a thr...
'Tiny earthquakes' help scientists predict mountain rock falls
Dec 22, 2016 (SPX)
The risk of mountain rock falls in regions with sub-zero temperatures, such as the Swiss Alps and parts of Canada, could be better predicted by using technology...
New Technology Could Help Track Firefighters for Safety
Dec 21, 2016 (JPL)
In 1999, six career firefighters lost their lives responding to a five-alarm fire. They were part of a group of 73 dispatched to a smoke-filled warehouse in Wor...
China charges 10 in power plant collapse killed 74
Dec 19, 2016 (AFP)
China has charged 10 people over a power plant collapse that killed 74 last month, state media reported Monday, after first detaining 13 in the immediate afterm...
Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills
Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)
Lowly sawdust, the sawmill waste that's sometimes tossed onto home garage floors to soak up oil spilled by amateur mechanics, could receive some new-found respe...
China arrests 18 over fatal October blast
Dec 13, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese authorities have arrested 18 people in connection with a massive explosion that left 14 dead and injured 147 in October, local media reported Tuesday. T...
Fukushima costs to double to nearly $190 bn: government
Dec 09, 2016 (AFP)
The estimated cost of dealing with the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis has doubled to nearly $190 billion, the government said Friday, underlining the challenge J...
Canada buys new Airbus search and rescue planes for Can$2.4 bn
Dec 08, 2016 (AFP)
Canada's air force will buy 16 Airbus C295W aircraft modified for search and rescue to replace its aging fleet, at a cost of Can $2.4 billion (USD$1.8 billion),...
Urgent appeal for supplies after strong Indonesia quake
Dec 08, 2016 (AFP)
Aftershocks rattled the survivors of a devastating Indonesian earthquake that killed more than 100 people, as officials urgently appealed Thursday for medicine ...
Syrian crisis altered region's land and water resources
Dec 06, 2016 (SPX)
The Syrian civil war and subsequent refugee migration caused sudden changes in the area's land use and freshwater resources, according to satellite data analyze...
MH370 relatives in Madagascar to hunt for clues
Dec 05, 2016 (AFP)
Relatives of missing MH370 passengers launched their own campaign to search for crash debris in Madagascar on Monday, hoping to solve the mystery of how the pla...
Refugees rehoused in Greece as temperatures drop
Dec 01, 2016 (AFP)
Thousands of refugees and migrants will be relocated indoors from tent camps in Greece as temperatures fell below zero for the first time, the UN refugee agency...
For Mosul displaced, the added pain of divided families
Dec 01, 2016 (AFP)
Ihsan Ismail has spoken to his family just twice in a month. In the desperate flight from their village outside Mosul they were separated and are now confined t...
Ukraine to unveil giant new safety dome over Chernobyl
Nov 29, 2016 (AFP)
Ukraine was on Tuesday due to unveil the world's largest moveable metal structure over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's doomed fourth reactor to ensure the s...
UT professor develops algorithm to improve online mapping of disaster areas
Nov 29, 2016 (SPX)
When an 8-magnitude earthquake struck Yingjie Hu's home province of Sichuan, China, in 2008, he was more than 1,000 miles away attending college in Shanghai. Wh...
Ukraine moves giant new safety dome over Chernobyl
Nov 29, 2016 (AFP)
Ukraine on Tuesday unveiled the world's largest moveable metal structure over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's doomed fourth reactor to ensure the safety of ...
Timeline of Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Nov 27, 2016 (AFP)
The Chernobyl disaster in then Soviet Ukraine, the worst civil nuclear accident in history, left thousands of people dead or dying and contaminated up to three ...
13 held over China power plant collapse as toll hits 74: media
Nov 25, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese authorities have detained 13 people in connection with a construction collapse at a power station which killed at least 74 people, state media said Frid...
Mexican boy designs bullet-proof backpack
Nov 24, 2016 (AFP)
An 11-year-old Mexican boy who lives in a northern city plagued by drug violence and shootouts has designed a bullet-proof backpack with a GPS tracker and an al...
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