August 31, 2023
Paris (AFP) Aug 30, 2023 Oil companies are paying popular influencers to pump their gas on social media, sparking a backlash from some climate-conscious fans for promoting planet-warming fossil fuels among young people. ... more
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Greece blaze is 'largest wildfire ever recorded in EU | Athens (AFP) Aug 29, 2023 A forest blaze in Greece is "the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU" and the bloc is mobilising nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a European Commission spokesman said Tuesday. Ittoqqortoormiit, Denmark (AFP) Aug 29, 2023 With rugged red mountains rising on either side, a sailboat carrying scientists deftly snakes between icebergs brimming Greenland's Scoresby Fjord, as they rush to document this understudied region on the frontline of climate change. Moscow (AFP) Aug 29, 2023 The Kremlin said Tuesday that Russia would not give up its ambitions to land a craft on the Moon after its first lunar mission in nearly 50 years failed this month.
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 31, 2023 A Hong Kong singer turned democracy activist was jailed for more than two years on Thursday after pleading guilty to sedition and money laundering. Boston MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2023 A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically (it sits on its tail on the landing pad), and then tilts horizontally for forward flight. Faster and more efficient than qua Washington DC (UPI) Aug 25, 2023 United Launch Alliance rolled out an Atlas V rocket Friday in preparation for next week's planned launch of a classified space surveillance mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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Fresh evacuations as Greek wildfires burn Athens (AFP) Aug 27, 2023 Firefighters in Greece were battling flames for a ninth consecutive day on Sunday, as more areas of the country's north were ordered to evacuate their homes. Montreal (AFP) Aug 26, 2023 The Canadian environment minister was traveling Saturday to Beijing for talks on climate change and biodiversity, the first visit there by a Canadian minister in four years. Manchester UK (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 New research by The University of Manchester will enhance the power of bioprinting technology, opening doors to transform advances in medicine and addressing critical health challenges faced by astr Bremen, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 Hera is complete. ESA's asteroid mission for planetary defence was built and prepared in two halves, but now, through a painstaking operation, they have been mated together to make a single spacecra |
Athens (AFP) Aug 28, 2023 A monster forest fire that has raged for nine days in the Dadia National Park in northeast Greece, a major European sanctuary for birds of prey, is still spreading, firefighters said Monday. ... more
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