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April 27 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck Japan's Bonin Islands, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Saturday.
The quake was at a depth of 503.2 km (312.7 miles), USGS said.
The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center said there was no tsunami warning from the quake, based on available data. (Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing by William Mallard)
Nearly a quarter of a million people were evacuated in eastern China as rainstorms lashed swathes of the country and caused the Yangtze and other rivers to swell, state media reported Wednesday.Mountain floods in central Hunan claimed five lives last month, according to state media reports, while a landslide in the same province killed eight people.
Contest condemned by animal rights groups sees children and adults hunt cats, which threaten native wildlife
Indonesia launched its first electric vehicle battery plant on Wednesday, President Joko Widodo said, as Southeast Asian countries move to gain a foothold in the emerging industry.The plant is part of a $9.8 billion electric vehicle battery deal signed between Indonesia and LG in 2020.
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Freya, a 6-month-old lion cub rescued from the wildlife trade in Lebanon, poked a curious nose out of her transport crate and sniffed the air. Satisfied, she took her first cautious steps in her new forever home in a sanctuary in South Africa. Freya's relocation to the Drakenstein Lion Park is only a partial success story.
Every time Turkish farmer Fatih Sik drives his tractor across his cornfields he knows the earth could open up and swallow him at any moment. "It's the first time I have seen this, it's impressive."
Hot sea temperatures are fueling storm’s explosive growth into an unprecedented early whopper
Renewables accounted for 51% of the total a year earlier. Solar plants generated 16.3% of the total, up from 13.8%, while hydropower dams accounted for 15.9%, up from 9.8%. Spain aims to generate four-fifths of its electricity from renewables by 2030 under a government plan published last year.
The National Weather Service (NWS) is warning of “persistent, dangerous heat” for much of the week, especially in the southern and southwestern parts of the country. The “early July heat wave” is expected in the Southern Plains, Gulf Coast, Southeast and Mid-Atlantic Coast, Central Valley of California and Mojave Desert of California and Nevada, the…
Scientists have been researching the best method for killing spotted lanternflies, and they may have gotten some new leads this year through the insects' attraction to vibrations.
For months, Philip Matthias tried to convince his father to install solar panels on their company's roof in the eastern German state of Thuringia, aiming to cut electricity costs and carbon emissions at the metal products factory. Since the war in Ukraine and the sudden drop in Russia fossil fuel exports to Germany, Berlin has introduced laws to accelerate solar power expansion, part of its plan to cover 80% of the country's energy from renewables by 2030. Encouraged by a feed-in tariff providing a guaranteed price to renewable energy producers selling their power, as well as reduced solar panel costs, German companies are increasingly turning to solar to get around high energy costs.
Weather forecasters warned Monday that much of New Mexico faces two more days of elevated threats of dangerous flooding like the walls of water over the weekend that caused severe damage, forced the rescues of 100 people and left parts of one town recently ravaged by wildfires covered in mud and debris. The body of one person was recovered from the Rio Grande in Albuquerque on Sunday, but it wasn't immediately clear if the death was flood related, according to Albuquerque Fire Rescue and Bernalillo County Fire Rescue. Most of central New Mexico remained under a flood watch into Tuesday, including Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas and Ruidoso.
The National Trust for Jersey is "very excited" about the first confirmed breeding since 1997.
Chances are the reason you’re cold right isn’t just because of a polar air mass – it’s because millions of Australian houses are poorly insulated
Radiation blast can be thousands of times stronger than anything recorded with modern instruments, scientists say
Rio Tinto says its 3.5-megawatt solar plant, which it calls the North's biggest off-grid solar operation, is up and running at Diavik Diamond Mine in the N.W.T. The 6,620 solar panels are expected to generate 4.2 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, according to a press release from the company — amounting to 25 per cent of the electricity needed for closure work that's slated to happen between 2026 and 2029. Currently, while the mine is still in production, the plant is generating 2.
Hurricane Beryl is heading towards Jamaica after killing at least six people in the eastern Caribbean
Hurricane Beryl is the earliest Category 5 storm on record. It's increasingly threatening to disrupt the oil market.
Six people have been killed in floods precipitated by torrential rains across northeast India and neighbouring Bangladesh that inundated the homes of more than a million others, officials said Wednesday. In Bangladesh, landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains killed two people including a Rohingya refugee early on Wednesday, police commander Jahirul Hoque Bhuiyan told AFP. Bhuiyan said authorities in Bangladesh's vast relief camps -- home to around a million Rohingya refugees from neighbourin
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