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BEIJING (AFP) - China's coastal waters are increasingly polluted by everything from oil to pesticides, contaminating the nation's marine life including the shellfish supply, state press reported Friday.Published 6 hours, 45 minutes ago |
PANAMA CITY (AFP) - Illegal fishing and climate change are decimating shrimp and lobster populations in Central America, threatening a two-billion-dollar industry and 136,000 jobs, regional experts said Thursday.Published 11 hours, 56 minutes ago |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Climate change is pushing some bird species "towards extinction," US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar warned Thursday as a new report on the threats facing North American birds was released.Published 12 hours, 7 minutes ago |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A group of US lawmakers Thursday urged the US administration to save NASA's Constellation project aimed at returning Americans to the moon in the next generation of space travel.Published 13 hours, 17 minutes ago |
TOKYO (AFP) - A New Zealand anti-whaling activist held on a Japanese harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month was expected to arrive in Tokyo harbour on Friday and likely face arrest.Published 13 hours, 41 minutes ago |
PARIS (AFP) - The consortium of agencies building the International Space Station (ISS) wants to see if the orbital outpost can operate until 2028, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.Published 16 hours, 57 minutes ago |
MILAN (AFP) - Europe's most powerful solar power plant is set to start operations in Italy later this year, the US company building the installation on an area as large as 120 football pitches said on Thursday.Published 17 hours, 36 minutes ago |
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's Coast Guard obtained an arrest warrant Thursday for an anti-whaling activist who has been held aboard a Japanese harpoon ship since boarding it in the Antarctic last month, press reports said.Published 19 hours, 34 minutes ago |
TAIPEI (AFP) - Southern Taiwan could experience even bigger mudslides than those that buried hundreds alive last year, when the worst typhoon in half a century hit the island, experts warned Thursday.Published 19 hours, 39 minutes ago |
OSLO (AFP) - Barely two years after it opened, a unique Arctic "doomsday" stockpile of all the world's crop seeds has reached the half-million species mark, the foundation that oversees it said Thursday.Published 20 hours, 23 minutes ago |
