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MSF, Greenpeace launch migrant rescue operation off Greece
Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)
The Doctors Without Borders charity and environmental group Greenpeace have launched a joint operation to rescue migrants crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to...
Australia says new analysis shows MH370 hunt in right area
Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)
Australia on Thursday said fresh analysis of data on missing jet MH370 confirmed authorities are searching in the right place, with hopes remaining that it will...
Fukushima protective sea wall cracking
Dec 02, 2015 (Sputnik)
The barrier constructed at the Fukushima nuclear power plant to prevent contaminated water from leaking into the ocean has tilted, developing a crack about 500 ...
Russia causing 'environmental disaster' in Ukraine
Nov 30, 2015 (AFP)
Russia risks causing an "environmental disaster" in eastern Ukraine with its support for rebel forces, President Petro Poroshenko told a UN climate conference i...
Climate change and conflict, a perfect storm
Nov 29, 2015 (AFP)
Violence has cast a long shadow over a climate summit opening in Paris on Monday, two weeks after 130 people were killed in a coordinated jihadist onslaught on ...
Preventing famine with mobile phones
Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)
There are different possible causes for famine and malnutrition--not all of which are easy to foresee. Drought and crop failure can often be predicted by monito...
Brazil mining giant rejects UN anger over 'toxic' flood
Nov 26, 2015 (AFP)
Mining giants responsible for a dam spill in Brazil earlier this month rejected Thursday accusations by the United Nations that "20,000 Olympic swimming pools o...
MSF hospital strike was 'human error': US general
Nov 25, 2015 (AFP)
A deadly air strike on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital was "caused primarily by human error", the US commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday, prompting...
Children study under open skies as quake rocks education in Pakistan
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
Ishtiaq Khalid is having a snow day, forced to stay home from his school in the Pakistani district of Shangla due to inclement weather -- but unlike most 12-yea...
Hopes fade as Myanmar mine landslide toll tops 100
Nov 23, 2015 (AFP)
Rescuers were searching for victims of a huge mine landslide in northern Myanmar Monday as the toll passed 100 in a disaster highlighting the perils of the coun...
UN details doubling in weather disasters ahead of climate summit
Nov 23, 2015 (AFP)
The UN on Monday detailed a doubling in weather-related disasters over the last three decades, a week before nearly 140 world leaders gather in terror-struck Pa...
China offers funds in search for missing MH370 plane
Nov 21, 2015 (AFP)
China on Saturday pledged Aus$20 million ($14.5 million) to help fund the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the government said in a statement,...
UN peacekeepers must use force where needed: US envoy
Nov 20, 2015 (AFP)
United Nations peacekeepers have a responsibility to protect civilians where they are deployed even if that means using force, the US envoy to the world body sa...
UN decries Thailand, Vietnam deportations to China
Nov 20, 2015 (AFP)
The United Nations on Friday slammed Thailand's deportation of two Chinese refugees, and Vietnam's reported transfer of nine North Korean nationals to China, wa...
China landslide deaths rise to 38
Nov 19, 2015 (AFP)
The death toll from a landslide triggered by flooding in China rose to 38 Thursday, with no more missing, officials and state-run media said. An avalanche of mu...
Houston region could be better protected from impact of hurricanes
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
New structural and nonstructural solutions could better protect the Houston-Galveston region from the impact of hurricanes and severe storms, according to a res...
Cuba, U.S. sign first environmental accord since diplomatic thaw
Nov 18, 2015 (UPI)
On Wednesday, U.S. and Cuban officials signed an environmental accord in Havana, the first such agreement since the countries renewed diplomatic relations this ...
Japan court orders damages for French citizen over Fukushima evacuation
Nov 17, 2015 (AFP)
A Japanese court has ordered public broadcaster NHK to pay 5.1 million yen ($41,500) in damages for firing a French news announcer who fled Japan during the Mar...
Choking air, melting glaciers: how global warming is changing India
Nov 17, 2015 (AFP)
Its Himalayan glaciers are melting fast, its agricultural heartland is drying up and its capital is choking on the world's filthiest air. Yet India's government...
US calls off hunt for black box of doomed 'El Faro' freighter
Nov 16, 2015 (AFP)
US crews said Monday they were calling off their hunt for the data recorder of the doomed "El Faro" freighter but voiced confidence they could still determine w...
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