VINHEDO, Brazil (AP) — Airline VOEPASS confirms all 61 people aboard were killed in plane crash in Brazil; airline earlier said 62 were aboard.
The normally-bustling financial hub of Shanghai was brought to a standstill on Monday as residents sheltered at home to wait out the worst of Typhoon Bebinca. The Category 1 storm, which made landfall in Shanghai on Monday morning, is the most powerful tropical cyclone to directly hit the city in more than seven decades.
Factory roofs blown off, products worth millions of dollars destroyed, supply chains disrupted: Typhoon Yagi has had a disastrous impact on local and global companies in northern Vietnam who could take months to recover, business leaders warn.Dozens of factories and warehouses in Haiphong were damaged by Yagi, while some in neighbouring Quang Ninh province expect to have no power until the end of the week, business leaders told AFP. "I can guarantee that (the damage) is more than tens of million
The death toll from disastrous flooding in Myanmar following Typhoon Yagi has risen to 226, many more people missing after reports of deadly landslides and entire villages being swept away by raging rivers.
BP plans to sell its U.S. onshore wind energy assets, shifting focus to solar energy with the goal of streamlining its renewable energy portfolio.
A semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole produces a special bubble atop its head to breathe underwater and avoid predators on land, according to research.
Hot on the heels of still-dominant diesel cars, electric vehicles now outnumber petrol models for the first time in oil-rich Norway, a world first that puts the country on track to taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road."The electrification of the fleet of passenger cars is going quickly, and Norway is thereby rapidly moving towards becoming the first country in the world with a passenger car fleet dominated by electric cars," Thorsen said.
Floodwater surged into homes, stranded vehicles and forced water rescues in coastal North Carolina Monday after a tropical storm-like system dumped historic amounts of rain on the area in a matter of hours.
The US Coast Guard is hearing evidence on how the Titan submersible lost contact and imploded in the Atlantic Ocean on a voyage to the Titanic.
Two people died in China’s eastern Jiangsu province as Typhoon Bebinca brought torrential rains and powerful winds before easing into a tropical storm, state media reported Tuesday. Two residents of Zhoushi Town, about 80 kilometers (31 miles) northwest of Shanghai, were hit by a falling high-voltage power line and electrocuted on Monday, according to state broadcaster CCTV. One resident of Shanghai’s Chongming Island was also reported injured by a falling tree.
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. But now Indigenous women are using giant reeds to revive the vital ecosystem
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — A temporary relief centre (PPS) has been opened in the Kubang Pasu district to accommodate 53 fl...
ENPH launches its most powerful home battery, the IQ Battery 5P, and its IQ Energy Management software in Belgium.
It’s official, the Florida Python Challenge this year has a winner. The $10,000 grand prize went to Ronald Kiger, who removed 20 Burmese pythons from the Florida Everglades during the 10-day hunt, which was meant to bring awareness to the threat that these pythons pose to the ecosystem. Last year, he was the direct runner-up to the grand prize winner.
The rare red fish looks perpetually unhappy and sports some serious canines
Swaths of Europe have been battered by deadly extreme weather, as rivers threaten to burst their banks in central Europe following torrential rainfall, and wildfires tear through Portugal.
A humpback whale named Zillion is going viral for her meal mixup
Fires have burned nearly 1m acres in California this year
Birds practising kleptoparasitism – harassing each other until they drop their saliva-covered food – seen as ‘plausible pathway’ for arrival of H5N1
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 — Pandemonium erupted when American social media celebrity Darren Watkins Jr, otherwise known onli...
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — Umno Youth chief Dr Muhamad Akmal Saleh today hit out at Teresa Kok and told the Seputeh MP to s...
