Emissions fell record 7 percent in 2020: study
by Patrick GALEY PARIS, France (AFP) -- Carbon emissions fell a record seven percent in 2020 as countries imposed lockdowns…
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US government, states file antitrust suits against Facebook
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- US federal and state antitrust enforcers filed suit against Facebook on Wednesday claiming the…
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UK issues allergy warning over Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- British health officials on Wednesday warned that anyone with a history of significant allergic…
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Australia to force Google, Facebook to pay for news content
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) -- Facebook and Google could be required to pay news outlets for their content in "world…
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Japan space agency hails return of asteroid dust on Earth
by Kyoko HASEGAWA / Sara HUSSEIN TOKYO, Japan (AFP) -- Japan space agency officials on Sunday hailed the arrival of…
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Trash tracking satellites help Indonesia tackle marine waste
by Lucie GODEAU Agence France-Presse JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — Every year, pounding rains wash away mountains of plastic waste from…
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Hackers targeting Covid-19 vaccine supply chain, IBM warns
by Daniel HOFFMAN NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- With multiple vaccines close to becoming available in a world gripped…
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NASA buying Moon dust for $1
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The US space agency NASA awarded contracts to four companies on Thursday to collect lunar…
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Climate change biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites
by Nina LARSON Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world…
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Namibia defends drilling in unique biodiversity site
WINDHOEK, Namibia (AFP) — Namibia's environment minister on Thursday defended a decision to allow oil and gas drilling in a biodiversity…
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