A hundred soldiers with sniffer dogs and local Indigenous people are searching through the Colombian Amazon in a desperate bid to find four children missing since an airplane crash almost three weeks ago.. Indigenous people used to moving through the Amazon, where wild animals and thunderstorms are constant dangers, have joined the search.
Two years after awarding Elon Musk's SpaceX a contract to ferry astronauts to the surface of the Moon, NASA on Friday announced it had chosen Blue Origin, a rival space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, to build a second lunar lander.. Blue Origin had also competed for the first contract, and filed an unsuccessful lawsuit against NASA when SpaceX was chosen as the sole lander provider.
The world's chemical weapons watchdog on Friday failed to agree a roadmap for the next five years because of deep divisions between Western powers, and Russia and Syria.. The meeting began on Monday with a warning from UN disarmament official Izumi Nakamitsu that the recent use of toxic weapons in Syria, Russia and Britain "threatens to unravel hard-won gains" since the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
The toll from floods that have devastated Italy's Emilia Romagna region rose to 14 on Friday, amid calls for the government to revive an abandoned project to mitigate the impact of natural disasters.. The flooding caused the cancellation of Sunday's Formula One Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola.
"I lost everything except for these pyjamas," said Fred Osazuwa, bewildered and covered in mud, as he surveyed the mess left of his home after Italy's deadly floods.. Standing in thick mud, Osazuwa described how his kitchen was submerged after flood waters rose by two metres in just a few hours.
The toll from floods that have devastated the Emilia Romagna region in Italy rose to 14 Friday, amid calls for the government to revive an abandoned project to mitigate the impact of natural disasters.. "The death toll has risen to 14," a spokeswoman for the region told AFP. The latest victim to be found was a man recovered from a flooded house in Faenza, a picturesque city usually surrounded by green pastures and vineyards, left largely underwater after the fierce downpour earlier this week.
The death toll from Cyclone Mocha has reached 145 in Myanmar with the majority Rohingya refugees, authorities said Friday, after the region's most powerful storm in more than a decade hit at the weekend.. "Altogether 145 local people were killed during the cyclone," a statement from Myanmar's junta authorities said.
A tsunami warning in the Pacific has been lifted after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday, sending many islanders fleeing coastal areas.. And in April, an evacuation order was issued to coastal dwellers on a remote Philippine island after a 6.2-magnitude quake struck the ocean off the archipelago, triggering a tsunami warning, though there were no reports of damage. djw-burs/al/dva
The brush-tailed bettong -- a rare, very cute marsupial resembling a rabbit-sized kangaroo -- is bouncing back on the South Australian mainland, more than 100 years after disappearing from the region.. "We are really hoping that the brush-tailed bettong is just one of the first of many species that we can bring back and help restore the bush." djw/dva
Inside bomb-proof frozen vaults underneath the English countryside hides a treasure trove of 40,000 species of wild plant seeds from around the world, many of which are in danger of disappearing.. The world's largest seed bank, located in the sleepy countryside south of London, is in a race against time because two out of five plant species are threatened with extinction, according to scientists.
