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GENEVA (AFP) - Millions of Africans may lose a key source of livelihoods as a fifth of freshwater African species are threatened with extinction, the updated Red List of endangered species showed Thursday.Published 22 minutes ago |
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) - BP on Thursday removed a massive cap which had stemmed the flow of oil from its ruptured well deep in the Gulf of Mexico in a key step toward killing the well once and for all, officials said.Published 26 minutes ago |
OTTAWA (AFP) - Astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2013 will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station (ISS), the Canadian Space Agency announced Thursday.Published 6 hours, 49 minutes ago |
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian scientists Thursday said they had discovered a sprawling ancient reef in chilly southern waters which could hold new hope for the future of coral as sea temperatures rise.Published 6 hours, 56 minutes ago |
LIMA (AFP) - The Amazon, the world's biggest river, is at its lowest level in over 40 years near its source in northeastern Peru, causing havoc in a region where it is used as the only form of travel, authorities said.Published 6 hours, 56 minutes ago |
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A pilotless NASA aircraft is set to overfly Hurricane Earl on Thursday, in a scientific first to gather data about the potentially-deadly storm front bearing down on the US east coast.Published 6 hours, 56 minutes ago |
LONDON (AFP) - God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published Thursday from a new book.Published 6 hours, 58 minutes ago |
GENEVA (AFP) - The conservation group WWF on Thursday urged people to send in a recorded "roar of support" for wild tigers, whose numbers have plunged over the past century from 100,000 to fewer than 3,200.Published 7 hours, 58 minutes ago |
GENEVA (AFP) - UN climate chief Christiana Figueres on Thursday warned that a string of weather calamities showed the deepening urgency to forge a breakthrough deal on global warming this year.Published 8 hours, 46 minutes ago |
TOKYO (AFP) - Two Greenpeace activists will face possible jail terms in Japan on Monday for stealing a box of whale meat in a trial the environmental group says will test the country's limits on political activism.Published 15 hours, 22 minutes ago |
