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Heavy rains and flooding have displaced 10,000 people and killed 28 in Tajikistan over the past month, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday. A month of non-stop rain damaged over 2,000 buildings, drowned 3,000 livestock and wiped out 40,000 hectares (98,840 acres) of crops, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for OCHA. Tajikistan's government ... read more 
Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2009Hundreds of angry tea farmers attacked a police station in southern China after rumours spread that one man had been killed in custody for fighting for farmers' rights, state media said Tuesday. The attackers damaged the station in Guangdong province with stones and bricks and set police vehicles on fire in Saturday's incident, the China Daily said of the latest in a string of attacks on ... more
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Prisoners used to shovel snow-bound US capital
Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Paris (AFP) May 25, 2009Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world's top agency for animal health said on Monday. The World Animal Health Organisation -- known as OIE, an acronym of its name in French -- said a survey of 126 of its member-states found 71 percent were "extremely concerned" about the expected impac ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) May 24, 2009Turkey has increased the flow of water in the Euphrates river by opening sluices upstream after Iraq complained its farmers faced an imminent crisis, Iraq's water resources minister said on Sunday. Turkey has increased the volume of water running through the Euphrates by 130 cubic metres (4,550 cubic feet) per second to 360 (12,600) although the extra flow will bring only limited relief to ... more 
Mount Serano, Calif. (UPI) May 22, 2009 A Mount Serano, Calif., man says his 20,000-gallon rooftop rain-harvesting system prepares him for a number of emergencies, including earthquakes. "What if there is an earthquake and what if the drought continues?" Jerry Block said. "At least I will have water for my family and neighbors." Rainwater can also be used for fire suppression, irrigation, car washing and keeping his s ... more 
Nairobi (AFP) May 24, 2009Fresh-cut flowers, Kenya's flagship export crop, have taken a battering from the global financial storm and erratic weather conditions which have made earnings wilt by around a third this year. Earnings from exports have so far this year shrunk by 35 percent compared to the same period last year, said the Fresh Produce Exporters' Association of Kenya (FPEAK). "There was a serious loss," ... more |
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X-MAT introduces X-FOAM: A game-changing ceramic foam for extreme environmentsOrlando, FL (SPX) Dec 01, 2025 X-MAT has announced the release of X-FOAM, a 1,300°C ceramic foam engineered for use in harsh environments demanding high thermal insulation and structural performance. ... more  
Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language ModelsSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on demand. Yet in structural terms, humanity has worked with something similar for millennia. ... more 
Digital twin successfully launched and deployed into spaceDavis CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 A dynamic digital twin designed by UC Davis researchers was launched into Earth's orbit last week aboard a SpaceX rocket. The innovation, which will model the current condition and predict the futur ... more
  
AI advances robot navigation on the International Space StationStanford CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025 Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks - all without an astronaut at the c ... more 
Indian dance mudras yield advanced synergies for robotic hand controlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set ... more 
MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebeeBoston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through t ... more
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Port Au Prince (AFP) May 21, 2009Several days of heavy rain has swamped Haiti and left 11 people dead across the poverty-seeped Caribbean nation, officials said Thursday. "We have counted 11 deaths in four regions of the country since the beginning of the week," Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti's Civil Protection Agency, told AFP. According to Jean-Baptiste, five people died in the department of Artibonite, whose ... more 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) May 22, 2009A key sensor for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has started its final and most critical environmental test at Northrop Grumman's subcontractor, Raytheon. NPOESS is the nation's next generation low Earth orbiting operational weather and climate monitoring system and will provide timely and essential data to civilian and military users through 2026. ... more 
Chicago (AFP) May 21, 2009The expansion of rubber plantations in southeast Asia could have a "devastating" environmental impact, scientists warned Thursday as they pressed for a substantial increase in forest preserves. More than 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) may have already been converted to rubber plantations in the uplands of China, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. And researchers predict ... more 
Beltsville, Md. (UPI) May 21, 2009 U.S. scientists say they are experimenting with ultraviolet light-emitting diodes to create darker, redder lettuce that is rich in antioxidants Plant physiologists led by Steve Britz of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Beltsville, Md., said spinach has more nutritional value than iceberg lettuce because darker colors in leafy vegetables are often signs of antioxidants that are thou ... more |
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