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Indonesia's devastating 'mud volcano' could keep spewing for the next 30 years, filling the equivalent of 50 Olympic-size swimming pools every day, a top Australian expert warned on Thursday. Curtin University of Technology's doctor Mark Tingay, who has just returned from the disaster site in East Java, said about 100,000 people remained under threat from subsidence three years after the ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2009Authorities in China aim to halt the spread of the desert in Tibet by next year, hoping to stem the effects of years of mining, tree-felling and overgrazing, state media said Thursday. Desertification is spreading by 39,600 hectares (98,000 acres) annually in Tibet, an official at the regional forestry bureau was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency. Sangye Drawa said Tibetan ... more |
Italy's Enel buying US wind, solar plants for $1bn
Mennonites in Colombia face trial for deforestation 158 giant tortoises reintroduced to a Galapagos island Austria snowstorm leaves five dead, road and power chaos Austria snowstorm brings road and power chaos, four deaths Trump administration repeals tougher rule on coal plant emissions Austria snowstorm brings road and power chaos, two deaths Snowstorm in Austria results in one death, blocked roads Snowstorm paralyses Vienna airport New Zealand seeks to abolish dedicated environment ministry 
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Leicester, England (UPI) Jun 18, 2009 British scientists have determined an ice age occurring about 440 million years ago that's been regarded as a brief period actually lasted 30 million years. University of Leicester geologists said their findings suggest that during the ancient ice age, global warming was curbed through the burial of organic carbon that eventually led to the formation of oil -- including the "hot shales" ... more  
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 11, 2009Antibiotics, antimicrobials and antifungals are seeping into the waterways of North America, Europe and East Asia, according to an investigation published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). Authored by Universite de Montreal and Environment Canada researchers, the review found that consumption of anti-infectives for human and agriculture use contributes to thei ... more 
Paris (AFP) June 18, 2009The world faces a growing risk of "abrupt and irreversible climatic shifts" as fallout from global warming hits faster than expected, according to research by international scientists released Thursday. Global surface and ocean temperatures, sea levels, extreme climate events, and the retreat of Arctic sea ice have all significantly picked up more pace than experts predicted only a couple of ... more  
Caracas (AFP) June 18, 2009A cruise ship barred from disembarking passengers in various Caribbean islands because of a swine flu outbreak among its crew left Venezuela Thursday after all Venezuelans on board were ordered off. The Ocean Dream, operated by the Spanish leisure group Pullmantur, was to arrive in its final stop of Aruba later Thursday, the company and a governor for northeast Venezuela, Morel Rodriguez ... more |
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Launching the idea of data centers in spaceSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026 Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race. ... more  
Anthropic unveils new AI model as OpenAI rivalry heats upSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 5, 2026 Anthropic on Thursday released its latest high-performing artificial intelligence model, escalating its challenge to OpenAI in the intensifying AI race. ... more
Musk merges xAI into SpaceX in bid to build space data centersSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Feb 3, 2026 Elon Musk has announced that his rocket company SpaceX will take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI, as he seeks to raise billions of dollars for his science fiction-worthy outer space projects. ... more
  
Reprogrammable metal bricks give robots muscle-like adaptabilityLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2026 Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept material system that allows solid Lego-like building blocks to be programmed with different mechanical properties and the ... more 
OpenClaw's AI agent does everything, even social mediaWashington, United States (AFP) Feb 2, 2026 Meet OpenClaw: the AI assistant that promised to be your dream intern, terrified cybersecurity experts, and now thrives on chatbot-only social media - all in just a few weeks. ... more 
Human taught tactile control lets robots grasp diverse objectsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 When humans pick up everyday items such as fragile eggs or slippery metal cups, they instinctively adjust their grip using tactile feedback to avoid breaking or dropping them. In contrast, enabling ... more
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Geneva (AFP) June 18, 2009Telecoms firms Ericsson and Zain, and the UN weather agency, teamed up on Thursday to harness Africa's booming stock of mobile phones to text-message vital weather information to villages. Brought together by former UN chief Kofi Annan's foundation, the venture is also aiming to use the equally burgeoning network of cellphone transmitters to bolster the continent's dangerously sparse cover ... more 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) June 18, 2009Malaysian authorities said Thursday they had seized 2,900 turtles eggs and detained a Filipino who tried to sell them in a market on the island of Borneo, where they are considered a delicacy. Saizal Hussin, an official with the marine police unit in Sandakan, in Borneo's eastern Sabah state, told AFP the eggs worth around 5,200 ringgit (almost 1,500 dollars) were smuggled from the southern ... more  
Kano, Nigeria (AFP) June 18, 2009Nigerian security agents Thursday searched again a detained aircraft from Ukraine carrying arms and headed for Equatorial Guinea, while its crew awaited interrogation, officials said. The plane was intercepted and its crew detained on Wednesday after landing at a northern Nigerian airport, they said. The Russian-made jet was stopped on arrival at the Aminu Kano International Airport in ... more 
Geneva (AFP) June 18, 2009Swine flu has infected nearly 40,000 people around the world in 89 countries and territories, causing 167 deaths since late March, latest World Health Organisation data showed Thursday. Since the last data released on Monday, some 3,692 new cases of A(H1N1) virus were reported taking the total to 39,620, along with four more deaths, including three in Canada and one in Argentina. The big ... more |
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'Unprecedented' emissions maps will hone mitigation
Sudan's historic acacia forest devastated as war fuels logging
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