NASA said farewell on Wednesday to the InSight lander that spent four years probing the interior of Mars.. "InSight may be retiring, but its legacy -- and its findings from the deep interior of Mars -- will live on," NASA said.
Life-threatening blizzards and bone-chilling winds are forecast across much of the United States over the next few days, threatening chaos for millions during the peak holiday travel period.. Forecasters in Minneapolis described it a "high-end, life-threatening event" that "needs to be taken seriously."
Outside the family home, frost covers the ground and temperatures in the damp Belgian winter have plunged below freezing.. "The first winter was harsher, we were used to a warmer temperature, but I got completely used to it.
Snowflakes dance in the massive spotlights at a public ice hockey rink in the Finnish city of Oulu, against the echoing sound of pucks bouncing during a precious practice session for a local youth team.. After rising costs made it too expensive to open their home arena, one of Oulu's local teams -- named Ahmat, which means The Wolverines in Finnish -- has been forced to hold practices at outdoor public rinks this season.
The European Vega-C rocket was lost shortly after lift-off from French Guiana on Tuesday with two Airbus satellites on board, the company behind the launch said.. "The mission is lost," Stephane Israel, head of commercial launch service provider Arianespace, said from the Kourou Space Center in French Guiana.
New Zealand's government on Wednesday outlined changes to controversial plans to tax the farts and burps of livestock, but a leading farmers group said it was still opposed to the emissions reduction scheme.. The head of New Zealand's leading agriculture advocacy group said the amended plans still stink and criticised the government's "unrealistic timelines".
US President Joe Biden signed a bill on Tuesday banning private ownership of tigers and other big cats and "cub petting" highlighted in the Netflix smash hit documentary "Tiger King.". The bill prohibits direct contact between the public and big cats such as that seen in "Tiger King," which featured the exploits of a flamboyant private zoo owner named Joe Exotic.
Europe has been gripped by its "most devastating" ever outbreak of bird flu in the past year, European health authorities said on Tuesday as experts study the feasibility of vaccinations.. Health authorities are studying the possibility of using vaccinations to arrest the spread of the virus.
US industrial giant 3M announced Tuesday it will phase out production of so-called "forever chemical" PFAS in light of tightening regulation connected to harmful health effects from their use.. 3M said Tuesday that its annual net sales of manufactured PFAS are about $1.3 billion. jmb/tjj
EU countries have cut the amount of natural gas they consume by 20 percent over the past four months as they adapt to an energy crunch, the bloc's statistics agency said Tuesday.. All but two EU countries showed declines, with major economies Germany, France slicing the amount of gas used by 25 percent and 20 percent, respectively, over that period.
