Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday said his country has "no need" for German aid aimed at helping protect the Amazonian forest, after Berlin said it would suspend some payments because of surging deforestation. Brazil is home to more than 60 percent of the Amazon forest, which is being cleared at an increasing rate to create more cropland. The Amazon is vital to the...
BELLEVUE, Wash. – Just a stone's throw away from Interstate 90's crush of traffic, a decade-old startup founded by Bill Gates is running tests aimed at building the next generation of nuclear reactors. You'll find no more than a smidgen of radioactive material at the privately funded venture, known as TerraPower. But if Microsoft's co-founder and TerraPower's other leaders...
Former Vice President Al Gore called for unity and urgency in the American response to climate change, saying he was encouraged by growing climate activism around the world, but alarmed by what he said is the imminence of irreversible, continuing environmental damage. "There’s both bad news and good news," he said in an interview with ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl....
Myanmar troops deployed to flood-hit parts of the country on Sunday to help with relief efforts after rising waters left thousands stranded and the death toll from a landslide jumped to 51. Hundreds of emergency response workers were still pulling victims out of the muddy wreckage in Paung township on...
France is arming its orbital satellites with lasers and machine guns.“If our satellites are threatened, we envisage blinding those of our enemies,” said Defense Minister Florence Parly. “We will judge the moment and the means of retaliation, but it could mean the use of powerful lasers deployed from our satellites or from patrolling nano-satellites.”“The next generation of Syracuse...
Determined for her 7-year-old son to attend school despite a life-threatening sensitivity to sunlight, Nadia El Rami stuck a deal with the school's director: Mustapha would be allowed in the classroom, but only if he studies inside a cardboard box. Mustapha Redouane happily accepted the arrangement. Now 8, Mustapha has already had 11 operations to remove cancerous growths on his...
One month after offering up archaeological evidence to back up a contested claim about the First Crusade, researchers say they've found traces of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in a deeper layer of their excavation on Mount Zion. The newly reported find demonstrates how the site, just outside the walls of the Old City's Tower of David citadel, serves as a "time machine"...