Hurricane Kay made landfall Thursday in northwestern Mexico before losing strength as it moved inland, bringing heavy rain to parts of the Baja California Peninsula, forecasters said.. "Kay continues to bring very heavy rains to portions of the Baja California Peninsula," it said.
Despite transforming history as beasts of burden essential for transporting goods and people, the humble donkey has long been woefully understudied.. The authors suggest that Romans bred improved donkey bloodlines to produce mules that were essential to sustaining the military and economic might of the empire.
Failing to achieve the Paris agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C could trigger multiple dangerous "tipping points" where changes to climate systems become self-sustaining, according to a major new study published in Science.. These points are defined as a reinforcing feedback in a climate system that is so strong it becomes self-propelling at a certain threshold -- meaning even if warming stopped, an ice sheet, ocean or rainforest would keep changing to a new state.
NASA is looking at September 23 and September 27 as possible dates for its next attempt at launching its Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, senior official Jim Free told reporters Thursday.. The Artemis 1 space mission hopes to test the SLS as well as the unmanned Orion capsule that sits atop, in preparation for future Moon-bound journeys with humans aboard.
NASA is looking at September 23 and September 27 as possible dates for its next attempt at launching its Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, senior official Jim Free told reporters Thursday.. The Artemis 1 space mission hopes to test the SLS as well as the unmanned Orion capsule that sits atop, in preparation for future Moon-bound journeys with humans aboard. ia/to
US health authorities announced Thursday they would carry out a clinical trial to test different dosing strategies of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, amid uncertainty over its effectiveness.. This strategy is meant to expand the availability of vaccines because it uses one-fifth of the standard dose.
When Egypt hosts a global climate summit in November, it will seek to represent Africa which shares little of the blame for global warming but suffers many of its worst impacts, its environment minister says.. African countries are among the most exposed to the impacts of climate change, especially worsening droughts and floods, but responsible for only around three percent of global CO2 emissions, former UN chief Ban Ki-moon said this week.
The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Europe's recorded history, with the continent suffering blistering heatwaves and the worst drought in centuries, the European Commission's satellite monitor said on Thursday.. The European Commission's Global Drought Observatory latest bulletin said 47 percent of the continent is currently covered by drought warnings -- meaning the soil is drying out.
As fertiliser prices shot up following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ugandan villager Peter Wakisi fretted for the future of his small farm and his young family.. "The manure from the waste generated by the BSF, mixed with organic waste and pig droppings, is safe to the soil and much cheaper compared to inorganic fertilisers whose prices increased due to the war between Russia and Ukraine," Wakisi said.
The death toll from a strong earthquake that struck southwest China rose to 82, state media reported Thursday, as rain and possible mudslides threatened the search for dozens of missing people. . State broadcaster CCTV said that 46 people died in Ganzi prefecture near the epicentre, while 36 deaths were reported in neighbouring Ya'an city.
