China successfully launched the final module of its Tiangong space station on Monday, inching closer to completion by the end of the year and a landmark moment in the country's space ambitions.. The Mengtian module launched Monday is the third and final major component of the T-shaped station.
China successfully launched the final module of its Tiangong space station on Monday, state media said, the latest step in Beijing's ambitious space programme.. The space station is one of the crown jewels of Beijing's ambitious space programme, which has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon and made China only the third nation to put humans in orbit.
October morning temperatures topping 30 Celsius (86 Fahrenheit) in Spain may have brought cheer to the tourists, but they are provoking concern among environmentalists. . On Friday morning, the northern resort of San Sebastian saw the temperature hit 30.3 Celsius at 8:30 am (0630 GMT) -- well above the seasonal average.
A tiny mountain-dwelling wren was the surprise winner Monday of New Zealand's controversial bird of the year competition, which even had Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in a flap.. On Monday, New Zealand's prime minister was momentarily ruffled live on air when asked if she had voted for her favourite bird.
The death toll from a storm that battered the Philippines has jumped to 98, the national disaster agency said Monday, with little hope of finding survivors in the worst-hit areas.. The number of fatalities is likely to rise, with the national disaster agency recording 63 people still missing in its latest report.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg said on Sunday she will skip next month's COP27 talks in Egypt, slamming the global summit as a forum for "greenwashing".. Again and again on Sunday, Thunberg called for more people to get involved in climate activism, saying the time had come for "drastic changes" to the status quo.
It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where -- with its twin river the Euphrates -- it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilisation thousands of years ago.
Emergency workers scrambled to rescue residents trapped by floods in and around the Philippine capital on Sunday as Tropical Storm Nalgae swept out of the country after killing at least 48 people.. An average of 20 typhoons and storms hit the Philippines annually, killing hundreds each year and leaving vast areas of the country in perpetual poverty. rbl/cgm/mtp
Iraq has long drilled the desert for oil, but now climate stress, drought and reduced river flows are forcing it to dig ever deeper for a more precious resource: water. . Compounding the water stress, upstream dams, mainly in Turkey, have vastly reduced the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates, the once mighty rivers that gave birth to Mesopotamian civilisation.
When Pau Pijoan began winemaking in Mexico's Guadalupe Valley it was home to little more than a dozen producers.. In the Guadalupe Valley, the prospect of worsening water scarcity is among the concerns of locals and winemakers.
