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by Olivier MORIN with Gael BRANCHEREAU in Stockholm Agence France-Presse NORWAY (AFP) — Paying no attention to nearby divers, a killer whale and her calf hunting for food frolic in a snowy Norwegian fjord. Their favorite meal, herring, abounds, but climate change means both predator and prey must increasingly migrate further north. The clear and calm waters of Reisafjorden, in Norway’s Far North, have in recent years become the winter playground of the Scandinavian country’s killer […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Thousands more fish have died in a key river system in drought-hit eastern Australia just weeks after up to a million were killed, authorities and locals said Monday, sparking fears an ecological disaster is unfolding. Fisheries officials said they were on their way to Menindee, a small outback town in far-west New South Wales state after the third mass fish kill in the area in less than two months. The town […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — An attempt by South Korea to create artificial rain to tackle air pollution many blame on neighboring China has failed, the government said Monday, as it struggles to address what has become an urgent public concern. Many South Koreans blamed China when pollution surged for three days earlier this month, and on Friday the Korea Meterological Administration (KMA) sent an aircraft to seed clouds with silver iodide in the hope […]
(Eagle News) — Libreng dental at medical services ang ipinagkaloob ng Iglesia Ni Cristo ay ng Felix Y. Manalo Foundation sa Tondo, Maynila. Kasabay nito, nagsagawa rin ang Iglesia Ni Cristo ng sabay-sabay na Lingap Pamamahayag sa iba’t-ibang dako ng bansa maging sa ibang bansa gaya ng Macau sa China, Quebec at Red Deer sa bansang Canada.
by Rob Lever Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — If you see a video of a politician speaking words he never would utter, or a Hollywood star improbably appearing in a cheap adult movie, don’t adjust your television set — you may just be witnessing the future of “fake news.” “Deepfake” videos that manipulate reality are becoming more sophisticated due to advances in artificial intelligence, creating the potential for new kinds of misinformation […]
by Bernadette Carreon Agence France Presse KOROR, Palau (AFP) — Swimming with the famous golden jellyfish in Palau can be put back on the bucket list following a two-year ban, but bathers may be stung with a hefty price increase for the pleasure. The government ordered the famed Ongeim’l Tketau Jellyfish Lake closed to swimmers in 2016 because of dwindling numbers of the unique creature — blamed on warming waters although with some suspicion sunscreen […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — To defeat the intertwined pandemics of obesity, hunger and climate change, governments must curb the political influence of major corporations, said a major report Monday calling for a ‘global treaty’ similar to one for tobacco control. Bu this will not happen unless ordinary citizens demand a “radical rethink” of the relationship between policymakers and business, nearly four dozen experts from The Lancet Commission on Obesity […]
by Thomas Urbain Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — America’s free online news heavyweights, BuzzFeed and HuffPost, this week were rocked by a new wave of layoffs, a sign of an advertising-dependent economic model under threat. At BuzzFeed, it was the second wave of job cuts in 14 months. In an internal announcement the company said that 200 jobs were to be shed, which follows the 100 jobs cut in the […]
Videographic illustrating the growing concern over space debris. Of the approximate 23,000 space objects in orbit, just 1,900 are active satellites.
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The last four years have been the world’s hottest since record-keeping began, with 2018 the fourth warmest on record, according to data published Thursday by US research group Berkeley Earth. Temperatures in 2018 were around 1.16 degrees Celsius (2.09 degrees Fahrenheit) above the average temperature of the second half of the 19th century, from 1850-1900, often used as a pre-industrial baseline for global temperature targets. “Global mean temperature in 2018 […]
