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Two wildfires in OR expected to merge in coming days

More than 1 million hectares had been burned across the whole state so far, a Cal Fire spokesman said on Thursday. There are now an estimated 100 wildfir...

More than 1 billion people face displacement by 2050

Compiled by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a think-tank that produces annual terrorism and peace indexes, the Ecological Threat Register uses ...

Tropical Storm Laura is now a hurricane

Winds are going to vary paced on the exact placement of the center of circulation but all of Acadiana can expect wind gusts of around 60+ mph, with 90+ mph gust...

Bound Cargo Spacecraft Named After Kalpana Chawla

It's the firm's custom that each Cygnus is called after an individual who has performed an necessary position within the journey of human area. Chawla had the h...

Humans behind 70% in wildlife decline over the past 50 years

Humans have significantly altered a staggering 75 per cent of the planet's ice-free land surface, the authors say. Overall, the report urges world leaders t...

Tropical systems could develop in Gulf

The newest system, another low pressure area, popped up in the Gulf on Thursday morning. It has a low (20 per cent) chance of formation during the next five day...

Efforts Required To Address Air Pollution Says UN Chief

The groups claim that the government has a legal obligation to review the strategy because of the "precautionary principle", which dictates that precautionary m...

NASA will pay private companies to collect Moon dirt samples

The effort is meant to set a legal precedent for mining on the lunar surface that would allow NASA to one day collect ice, helium or other materials useful to...

Quebec unveils colour-coded regional alert system as cases climb

The alert and intervention system will allow the Quebec government to intervene and deploy measures to slow down transmission of the virus in specific regions t...

Province confirms 170 new COVID-19 cases today

Kingston police and city officials said they've had to close a popular pier and beach due to crowding and issue a number of tickets since thousands of students ...

Romania sees highest environmental contribution to mortality in the EU

The pandemic provides a stark example of the complex links between the environment, our social systems, and our health. The European Environmental Agency (E...

Tropical Depression Rene expected to regain tropical storm status

Category 1 hurricanes form when maximum sustained winds are in the range of 73 to 95 miles per hour. While it's not guaranteed that this year's hurricane tota...

World’s largest digital camera sensors capture first 3,200-megapixel images

According to SLAC: "The images are so large that it would take 378 4K ultra-high-definition TV screens to display one of them in full size, and their resoluti...

Jackson Lab-Engineered 'Mighty Mice' Retain Muscle Mass In Space, Study Finds

Maine astronaut Jessica Meir was one of the scientists who worked on the experiment aboard the I.S.S. All 40 mice were brought back in good condition after th...

Joe Biden Admits His National Mask Mandate Idea Is Unconstitutional

The president said his action should also please residents of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, two of which are battlegrounds in the fall campaign....

2 tropical storms, Paulette and Rene, form in the Atlantic

As of 4 p.m. CDT Tuesday, Tropical Storm Paulette was located about 1,230 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands and was moving northwest at 8 mph. A trop...

Trump expands ban on offshore drilling in the Atlantic

The president will also hold a campaign rally Tuesday in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Both moves would curtail fossil fuel demand. Biden said in a statement t...

London Police Arrest Extinction Rebellion Leader ‘Rainbow Surfer’

A report from one of the affected newspapers, The Telegraph , suggested that the government is considering taking a harder line on Extinction Rebellion, and ...

Chandrayaan-3 launch likely to take place in early 2021: Jitendra Singh

Planned to land on the South Pole of the Moon , Chandrayaan-2 was launched on July 22 a year ago. Chandrayaan-3 will be a mission repeat of Chandrayaan-2 and...

Chandrayaan-3 mission likely to launch early 2021

The launch which was planned for 2020 will now take off for the Lunar surface sometime in early 2021. However, the corona virus epidemic and lockdown affected m...

True size of history's largest shark revealed

Fossil records have revealed Megalodons were more than twice the length of its direct descendant, in addition to a more-than ten-tonne bite force. Results sug...

Asteroid approaching: A "probable danger" 2010 FR asteroid flies over Earth today

In a statement, the U.S. space agency has said that the asteroid has been named as 465824 (2010 FR) is expected to have a diameter between 120 meter and 270 met...

High-res photos of the Sun show what sunspots look like

Using the largest telescope in Europe, known as GREGOR, scientists have captured unbelievable details about the evolution of sunspots and the intricate design o...

Rocket Lab launches its first in-house designed and built Photon satellite

We learned a little about this new family of satellites a year ago, when Rocket Lab revealed its ambitions to expand its services and deliver small satellites...

SpaceX hopes to `` jump in '' to another prototype of the Starship today

The corporate launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink web satellites into orbit for SpaceX's rising megaconstellation. The next intermediate jumps mus...

US SpaceX astronauts return

Known as Crew-1 and scheduled to launch as early as late September, less than two months from now, Crew Dragon C206's safe recovery means that SpaceX and NASA...

Supreme Court to hear review petition today seeking postponement of JEE, NEET

The petition, which was submitted in the Court last week, said the previous SC order did not "secure the safety, security and Right to Life of the students/ca...

Pope prays for Lebanon during 1st public audience in months

As Pope Francis greeted people gathered in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace for his general audience September 2, Father Georges Briedi, a member of the ...

China launches reusable experimental spacecraft

Friday's launch was the 14th mission of the Long March-2F carrier rocket. It has flown four classified missions to date, carrying secret payloads on long-dura...

UAE - JAPAN UAE launches first ever Mars mission

The launch was delayed again as the weather on Tanegashima Island continued to be unstable. Most Mars missions orbit at a single local time that allows th...