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Hippo kills poaching soldier in DR Congo park

AFP Global Edition 150 days ago

A hippopotamus killed a member of Democratic Republic of Congo government forces at Virunga National Park while he was fishing illegally, a local environmental NGO said Saturday. Bantu Lukamba of the IDPE non-governmental organisation told AFP that Private Sebagendi was killed Thursday ...

2 German cargo ships pass through 'Arctic Passage'

AP News 151 days ago

In warming Arctic, 2 German ships traversing Northeast Passage Two German merchant ships have traversed the fabled Northeast Passage after global warming and melting ice opened a route from South Korea along Russia's Arctic coast to Siberia. Now the German-owned ships are ...

Patagonia site of world's biggest crater field: study

AFP Global Edition 154 days ago

Argentina can lay claim to the world's largest crater field, a volcanic area in Patagonia known as the "Devil's Slope," according to a study released Tuesday. Covering 400 square kilometers (154 square miles), the Bajada del Diablo field is peppered with at ...

Climate trouble may be bubbling up in far north

AP News 162 days ago

On continent's boggy Arctic fringe, scientists search for signs of future climate calamity Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence — and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the ...

Beetles, wildfire: Double threat in warming world

AP News 169 days ago

Billions of beetles, wildfire spread imperil the northern forests of a warmer world A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray ...

Russia Power Plant

AP News 170 days ago

This photo taken Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, shows a general view of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in southern Siberia.Russian authorities were reportedly warned in 1998 that Siberia's massive Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant had fallen into serious neglect and was unsafe, more than ...

'Almost all dead recovered' from Russia dam disaster

AFP Global Edition 170 days ago

Rescuers on Sunday found more bodies from the disaster at Russia's biggest hydroelectric power station, raising the death toll to 69, as search efforts went into their final stage, officials said. Only six people are now officially listed as missing from Monday's ...

Russia dam disaster death toll up to 69: rescuers

AFP Global Edition 170 days ago

The confirmed death toll from the disaster at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant rose to 69 on Sunday, with six people still listed as missing, a spokesman for the search and rescue team said. "The toll from the accident has risen to 69," ...

Russia dam disaster death toll rises to 66

AFP Global Edition 171 days ago

The confirmed death toll from the disaster at Russia's largest hydroelectric plant rose to 66 on Saturday, with nine people still listed as missing, a spokesman for the search and rescue team said. "Two more bodies have been found which means that ...

Death toll climbs in Russian dam accident

AFP Global Edition 173 days ago

Some 58 workers were still missing Thursday three days after a flood engulfed a Siberian hydroelectric power station as the death toll climbed to 17, in the latest calamity to hit the Russian energy industry. Teams of divers and even robots were ...

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