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By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service online correspondent BARCELONA, Spain (Eagle News) — Top executives from leading brands that drive the growth of the digital age led by Google, YouTube, Twitter, Jukin Media and Gleam Futures acknowledge mobile as the primary platform that has been fuelling the social video phenomenon. In the “Social Video Phenomenon” track of the Mobile, Media, Innovation and Experience Summit at the Mobile World Congress held last February 24, 2016 […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health is studying methods on how to make effective health warning for those who buy cigarettes by piece. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
by Natsuko FUKUE Fujimi, Japan (AFP) — Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors. Though just a drill, the intensity of the Brittany spaniel in scouring the mound of broken concrete highlights the key role of sniffer dogs in saving lives when buildings collapse, such as in earthquakes or explosions. Ten-year-old Gonta helped search for […]
NASA released a new photo on Thursday (March 3) showing a chain of snow-capped mountains stretching across the dark section on Pluto known as Cthulhu Regio. Scientists believe the bright material highlighted on the image may be primarily methane, which has condensed as ice onto the peaks from Pluto’s atmosphere, NASA’s website said. The compositional data was obtained using the Ralph/Multispectal Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. The […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Joyful events — the birth of a child, a big win by your team — can trigger a dangerous condition called the “broken heart syndrome”, doctors and researchers reported Thursday. Takotsubo syndrome, as it is also known, involves the sudden weakening of heart muscles, causing the left ventricle — the chamber which pushes oxygen-rich blood through the body — to balloon out abnormally at the bottom. Besides acute […]
KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato (PIA) — Mt. Apo, the country’s highest peak, will be open for the Holy Week climb but only for a limited number of climbers, an official here announced. Joey Recimilla, city tourism officer, told Philippine Information Agency 12 that the Mt. Apo Natural Park Protected Area Management Board’s (MANP-PAMB) Eco-Tourism Committee in its meeting on February 26 decided to regulate entry to Mt. Apo because of the prevailing El Nino […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The effects of climate change on food production could cause 500,000 extra deaths by 2050 compared to a world without global warming, according to a study released Thursday. If greenhouse gas emissions continue at current rates, this would cut projected increases in food availability by about a third before mid-century, the study found. As of 2015, some 800 million people in the world are undernourished, meaning they cannot meet daily minimum dietary […]
Knowah’s rare disease – Wiskott-Aldrich SyndromeMalou Francisco gives us a sneak peek Posted by Eagle News International on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 (Eagle News Correspondent)
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Scientists have been telling Americans about the benefits of healthy eating for decades, and yet more Americans are obese than ever — more than a third of the country. Now, researchers at Harvard and Tufts Universities have laid out concrete steps officials can take by linking food prices to health effects. Reducing prices of fruit and vegetables while raising prices for sodas and other sugary drinks could save millions of […]
TOKYO, JAPAN (Reuters)— Akiko Hoshino’s 17-year-old female Shiba Inu, named “Nene”, is so old in dog years that she can no longer walk by herself. On the rare days she is out on the streets of Tokyo, Hoshino has to carry Nene everywhere, occasionally a friend helps her wipe the drool from Nene’s open mouth. Depending on how you calculate dog years, Nene is around 84 years old in human terms. “You can’t say this […]
MAKATI City, Philippines – The Philippines will once again participate in the 2016 Earth Hour organized by the World Wild Life Fund, which in turn is an awareness event that addresses the issue of climate change. The Philippines is one of the leading countries that participate in the Earth Hour. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Fresh off his Oscar win, Leonardo DiCaprio on Monday took to social media to press Peru’s authorities over oil spills sullying indigenous towns in the Amazon basin region. “3,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Amazon! Act now for indigenous communities & our climate,” DiCaprio tweeted, the day after winning best actor honors for his role in survival epic “The Revenant.” The tweet linked to a statement from the nonprofit organization […]
