Bangladeshi ferryman Kalu Molla began working on the Buriganga river before the patchwork of slums on its banks gave way to garment factories -- and before its waters turned pitch black.. Water samples from the river found chromium and cadmium levels over six times the World Health Organization's recommended maximums, according to a 2020 paper by the Bangladeshi government's River Research Institute.
South Korea said Tuesday it had successfully launched its homegrown space rocket and placed a payload into orbit in a "giant leap" for the country's quest to become an advanced space-faring nation.. "South Korea has now become the seventh nation in the world to launch a space vehicle with homegrown technology," he said, adding the government would continue its quest to become "an advanced space-faring nation".
A major biodiversity summit delayed due to the pandemic will be held in Montreal, Canada instead of China as planned, the UN said Tuesday, as Beijing continues with its strict zero-Covid policy.. But Beijing has persisted with strict Covid control policies including flight cancellations and quarantine requirements on arrival.
Every day for the past 14 years, 72-year-old Masaoki Tsuchiya has set out before sunrise to search for a bird rescued from extinction in Japan.. "Over just 40 years, the toki basically disappeared," said Tsuchiya on an observation deck where visitors now try to spot the bird.
A fisherman on the Mekong river in Cambodia has hooked the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded, scientists said -- a 300-kilogram stingray.. The monstrous bottom-dweller beat the previous record for biggest recorded freshwater fish, held by a 293-kilo (646-pound) Mekong giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005, the US-funded Wonders of the Mekong research project said.
Umm Mohammed, 74, waves a fan back and forth to cool down, but in the blistering heat of Iraq's southern city of Basra there is nothing but stiflingly hot air.. "By God, we are tired," Umm Mohammed said faintly, adding that the heat had woken her up in the middle of the night.
A heat wave that baked much of the central United States last week will start to move eastward with dangerously high temperatures, forecasters said Monday.. Around 120 million people were under some sort of advisory last week as a heat wave burned the Upper Midwest and the Southeast.
China ramped up crude oil imports from Russia in May, customs data showed Monday, helping to offset losses from Western nations scaling back Russian energy purchases over the invasion of Ukraine.. Asian demand is helping to staunch some of those losses for Russia, especially buyers from China and India.
ConocoPhillips on Monday became the first US energy giant to sign up to help Qatar's massive natural gas expansion that has drawn global bidders anxious to assure new supplies.. The expansion of the North Field, which has the world's biggest known natural gas reserves, is estimated to cost more than $28 billion, and will see production increase from the current 77 million tonnes a year to 110 million tonnes by 2027.
World airlines on Monday called on governments to support the industry's goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.. "The industry's determination to achieve net-zero by 2050 is firm.
