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The civic authorities in India's financial capital Mumbai are considering cloud seeding amid growing water shortages caused by a lack of consistent monsoon rain, media here reported Friday. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said it had consulted the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and a company that conducted a cloud seeding experiment in 1992 for the best time to carry out ... read more 
Kathmandu (AFP) July 12, 2009India's water resources minister said here Sunday he was satisfied with flood defences along a river that breached its banks last August, displacing millions of people in Nepal and India. Hundreds of villages were flooded and millions of people lost their homes in southern Nepal and the impoverished northern Indian state of Bihar when the Kosi river broke its banks last August. India's ... more
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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) July 10, 2009The eastern lobe of the disaster-struck Aral Sea seems to have shrunk by four-fifths in just three years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday. It released an overlay of photographs taken by one of its Earth observation satellites, Envisat, on July 1 2006 and July 6 2009. Once the world's fourth-largest inland body of water but now a byword for ecological calamity, the Aral ... more  
L'Aquila, Italy (UPI) Jul 10, 2009 The Group of Eight summit in Italy ended Friday with an ambitious $20 billion food security pledge to developing nations. The G8 nations promised the money -- $5 billion more than anticipated -- over three years to finance agriculture projects in poor countries and help fight hunger and food price volatility. Initiated by Washington, the aid package would provide farmers in poor nations ... more 
Beijing (AFP) July 12, 2009At least 14 hikers were killed when a flash flood swept them away in a canyon in southwest China, as torrential rain battered the area, state media reported Sunday. Five people were still missing after a tour group hiked into a forbidden part of a canyon in Chongqing Saturday using a local resident as a guide, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The remaining 16 of the group ... more  
Geneva (AFP) July 10, 2009Dismayed by dwindling numbers, some experts say tiger farming can stem the burgeoning illegal trade in the endangered cat's pelts, bones and body parts but others argue that this will only fuel demand. "Domestic trade in tiger parts and derivatives has been banned across the world since the late 1990s," said Juan Vasquez, a spokesman for CITES or the UN body that regulates trade in ... more |
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Don't Look Up, Space is Filled With JunkDurham NC (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 In the early days of space exploration, satellites were rare. Each launch was a feat of engineering and ambition, sending machines far above the Earth into orbits where they could drift undisturbed. ... more  
Expanded orbital computing initiative announced for next Momentus mission with DPhi Space partnershipLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 Momentus Inc., a U.S. commercial space company, will partner with DPhi Space to fly a Clustergate-2 edge computing payload on its upcoming Vigoride 7 mission, scheduled for launch in early 2026. The ... more 
ESA Expands Space Safety Fleet to Protect Earth and Enable Sustainable Space OperationsParis, France (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 ESA's Space Safety Programme advances initiatives to detect, predict, and counter space hazards - including threats from asteroids, solar storms, and space debris. The program develops missions and ... more
  
Consciousness debate intensifies as scientists urge clarity while AI and robotics advanceParis, France (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 Scientists warn that as artificial intelligence and neurotechnology accelerate in development, the need to understand consciousness has now become a scientific and ethical priority. In a major revie ... more 
Space Robotics at the Edge of the UnknownLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2025 Many robotics systems function in conditions where the environment is well-defined: factory floors, urban roads, research facilities. But what about robots designed for space? Keenan Albee, ... more 
Orbital data and energy collaboration accelerates space-based assemblyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2025 Rendezvous Robotics and Starcloud have initiated a formal partnership to integrate autonomous modular assembly systems with orbital power and cooling infrastructure for gigawatt-scale datacenter cap ... more
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Sydney (AFP) July 8, 2009An Australian town was set to ban bottled water on Wednesday over concerns about its environmental impact, in what is believed to be a world first. Bundanoon, a picturesque rural town with a population of just 2,000, was expected to vote heavily in favour of the move with a show of hands at a public meeting later. "At the moment we've got a lot of community support behind it. ... more 
Hanoi (AFP) July 6, 2009At least 22 people died and 13 others went missing in weekend storms that pummelled mountainous northern Vietnam, the government's disasters office said on Monday. The worst of the damage occurred in the province of Bac Kan, where 13 of the total number of dead perished, said the National Flood and Storm Control Committee. Flash floods "swept away everything in their path," the newspaper ... more 
Beijing (AFP) July 6, 2009At least 20 people have died and more than 670,000 had to be evacuated in China after torrential rain and floods destroyed houses, damaged roads and caused rivers to overflow, state media said Sunday. The fatalities occurred over several days of relentless heavy rain in the centre and south of the country, also leaving another five people missing, according to Xinhua news agency. ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 3, 2009France on Friday rejected a report by the European Union's food safety watchdog that said a controversial strain of genetically-modified corn was safe. In a joint statement, the French ecology and agriculture ministries said the Italy-based European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) had failed to take into account requests to change the way it evaluated the risk. "The conclusions of the ... more |
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