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Japan could release Fukushima radioactive water into environment
Dec 24, 2019 (AFP)
The plant suffered a meltdown about nine years ago after it was hit by an earthquake-triggered tsunami. About a million tonnes of contaminated water has built u...
Scientists call for effort to end destruction of terrestrial ecosystems
Dec 17, 2019 (UPI)
The study, published this week in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, suggests some countries are better positioned to restore natural vegetation, while o...
Fukushima clean-up reduces radiation levels, but not all
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
The disaster, second only to the massive Chernobyl meltdown in 1986, spewed radioactive material over a huge area, with the Japanese authorities targeting 9,000...
Human remains found in search for Chilean plane: provincial leader
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
Search teams are combing waters off the southern tip of South America for any sign of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, which disappeared late Monday. Chil...
Pentagon launches probe into troops at Mexico border
Dec 11, 2019 (AFP)
Members of Congress requested an investigation three months ago into whether the deployment breaks regulations banning active duty military troops from carrying...
Heroism, devastation after deadly N. Zealand volcano eruption
Dec 10, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said five people had died and eight more were presumed dead after Monday's eruption, while dozens of injured had been airlifted to...
Protect poorest from cost of climate reforms: World Bank
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
Axel van Trotsenburg, who is joining more than 50 finance ministers at the UN climate change conference COP25 in Madrid, urged countries that had committed to f...
AFRL demonstrates LVC capabilities during Red Flag-Rescue visit
Dec 08, 2019 (SPX)
Under Detachment 1 of the 414th Combat Training Squadron, Red Flag-Rescue is the Department of Defense's Joint Force exercise where Airmen partake in realistic ...
In nations rich and poor, climate-related disasters on the uptick
Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)
Flood-inducing rains, two deadly heatwaves, and the worst typhoon to hit Japan in a quarter century -- all in 2018 -- left hundreds dead, thousands homeless and...
Radiation 'hot spots' near Olympic torch relay in Fukushima: Greenpeace
Dec 04, 2019 (AFP)
Japan's environment ministry said the area in general was safe but added it was in talks with local communities to survey the region ahead of the Games that ope...
NASA develops second-generation search and rescue beacon technology
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
The Cospas-Sarsat program began as a collaborative international effort to provide first-responders with satellite-aided distress location services. Since its f...
France cancels boat offer to Libya under NGO pressure
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
French officials confirmed they had cancelled the delivery after eight NGOs filed a lawsuit against the move, criticising Libya's treatment of migrants. Lola Sc...
Three French flood rescuers killed in helicopter crash
Dec 02, 2019 (AFP)
Their EC145 helicopter lost radio and radar contact while on a rescue and reconnaissance flight in the Var region Sunday night. The three were found dead at 1:3...
Libya navy says over 200 migrants rescued from Med
Nov 30, 2019 (AFP)
The rescue took place on Friday, with 158 men, 33 women and 14 children taken from three inflatable boats off the coast of Zawiyah, 45 kilometres west of the ca...
Nuclear reactors with a newly proposed barrier could've withstood Chernobyl and Fukushima
Nov 27, 2019 (SPX)
However, while actions towards the closure of all nuclear power plants in only a few decades' time are already well underway, the alternative energy sources cur...
Report shows high injury rate at Amazon warehouses
Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)
The report released Monday by Reveal, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, showed the rate of serious injuries at Amazon was more than double th...
Washington airspace alert sparks White House lockdown
Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)
Major Andrew Hennessy, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, told AFP that "a track of interest" appeared on radars early Tuesday, spark...
NASA space data can cut disaster response times, costs
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
In the first NASA study to calculate the value of using satellite data in disaster scenarios, researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Ma...
AFRL sponsors service academy and university design challenge
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
The SAC/UDC challenges tackle some of the Department of Defense's top urgent needs while focusing on highly visible and challenging warfighter problems. The com...
America grapples with 'ghost guns' amid epidemic of violence
Nov 24, 2019 (AFP)
Such guns are sometimes called "ghost guns" -- unregulated, easy to put together and almost impossible to trace because they have no serial number. The parts ar...
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