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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s air quality improved substantially last year, the environment ministry said Monday, following a government crackdown on pollution and a weakening economy. Thick smog clouds have plagued China’s cities for years and represent the dark side of rapid development that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. The country’s economic miracle has rested firmly on the output of goods like steel, coal and cement, the production of which are all […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Homes have gone up in flames and skies turned blood red as nearly 1,000 firefighters battle dozens of out-of-control blazes in southern Australia in the wake of the nation’s warmest summer on record. A days-long heatwave sent temperatures soaring towards 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) over the weekend, with bushfires raging across Victoria state forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. A lightning strike late last week sparked southeast […]
(Eagle News) — Magsasagawa ng cloud seeding sa loob ng linggong ito ang Department of Agriculrure upang matugunan ang problema ng mga magsasaka kaugnay sa tagtuyot. Labing-isang bayan na sa Occidental Mindoro ang apektado ngayon ng El Niño at may dalawang barangay na ang nagdeklara na ng state of calamity. Sinabi ni Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol na ang pinaka-apektadong ng El Niño hanggang sa Mayo ay ang cental Luzon at ang Visayas. Tiniyak naman ng […]
by Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Animals living in the deepest ocean trenches have been found with plastic fragments in their gut, according to new research published Wednesday showing how manmade pollution reaches into the bowels of the planet. More than 300 million tonnes of plastics are produced annually, and there are at least five trillion plastic pieces floating in our oceans. Because deep-sea exploration is expensive and time-consuming, most studies […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Marine clouds that protect us from hothouse Earth conditions by reflecting sunlight back into space could break up and vanish if CO2 in the atmosphere triples, researchers warned Monday. “Our results show that there are dangerous climate change thresholds of which we were unaware,” Tapio Schneider, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and lead author of a study detailing the findings, told […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Every spring, the largest animals in the world, blue whales, migrate from their winter breeding grounds off of Costa Rica to the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. They are in search of their favorite food, the tiny crustaceans known as krill. Scientists have long tracked the migration of the behemoths, which can weigh well over 100 tons, but could not explain how they chose their itinerary. […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France-Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese probe sent to collect samples from an asteroid 300 million kilometers away for clues about the origin of life and the solar system landed successfully on Friday, scientists said. Hayabusa2 touched down briefly on the Ryugu asteroid, fired a bullet into the surface to puff up dust for collection and blasted back to its holding position, said officials from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency […]
(Eagle News) — Pinag-aaralan na ring isailalim sa rehabilitasyon ng Department of Environment and Natural Resources ang Baguio City. Kaugnay nyan, inatasan na ni Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu ang isang team ng DENR na magsagawa ng isang buwang pag-aaral sa pine forests ng lungsod. Kasunod ito ng unti-unti ng pagkaubos ng pine trees sa Baguio City. Giit ni Cimatu, hindi matatawag na “City of Pines” ang Baguio kung mauubos ang mga pine tree na sumisimbolo […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The world’s largest bee — a giant insect roughly the size of a human thumb — has been rediscovered in a remote part of Indonesia in its first sighting in nearly 40 years, researchers said Thursday. Despite its conspicuous size, no one had observed Wallace’s giant bee — discovered in the 19th century by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and nicknamed the “flying bulldog” — in the wild since 1981, the […]
by Kyoko HASEGAWA Agence France Presse TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — A Japanese probe is expected to land on a distant asteroid Friday, aiming to blast a “bullet” into the surface to collect clues about the origins of Earth and the solar system. The Hayabusa2 probe is scheduled to touch down at 8:25 am local time (2325 GMT Thursday) on the Ryugu asteroid, some 300 million kilometers from the Earth, according to officials at the Japan […]
SANTA CRUZ, Ecuador (AFP) — A tortoise thought to be a Chelonoidis phantasticus, a species believed to have gone extinct about a century ago, has been discovered during an expedition to Fernandina Island in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AFP) — The Pacific nation of Vanuatu has announced plans to ban disposable diapers in a move it says will significantly reduce pollution. Foreign Minister Ralph Regenvanu announced the ban at a conference in Port Vila this week, saying plastic cutlery, polystyrene cups, plastic drinks stirrers and types of food packaging would also be outlawed. He said research showed disposable diapers — or nappies as they are known outside North America — […]
