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by Dave Clark and Stephanie Aglietti KIGALI, Rwanda | AFP | — In a major step toward curbing global warming, the world community agreed on Saturday to phase out a category of dangerous greenhouse gases widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners. Nearly 200 countries agreed to end production and consumption of so-called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) under an amendment to the 1987 Montreal Protocol on protecting the ozone layer. HFCs stoke climate change because they […]
Sidon, Lebanon (AFP) –by Sara Hussein Nine-month-old Amena al-Helou’s skin sizzles as the surgeon cauterises an incision in her chest, beginning a heart operation at a south Lebanon hospital to save the Syrian refugee’s life. She is just one of dozens of refugees treated each year by Lebanon’s leading paediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi, who each week sets aside a day to operate on Syrian and Palestinian refugees. But for all his efforts, including on occasion […]
London, United Kingdom (AFP) — by Maureen COFFLARD Leonardo DiCaprio has issued an impassioned call for immediate action on climate change in “Before the Flood”, a documentary film making its European premiere in London on Saturday. The Hollywood megastar, who won this year’s best actor Oscar for his role in “The Revenant”, takes viewers around the world to meet experts and politicians in order to reveal the scale of the problem, its effects and the […]
CADARACHE, France (Reuters)– Construction of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor in southern France is in full swing as the cost estimate has ballooned to nearly four times the original estimate, but the ITER project’s new head says new forecasts are realistic. The seven partners in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) – Europe, United States, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea – launched the project 10 years ago with a 5 billion euro ($5.6 […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The end of China’s one-child-per-couple limit last year will not provide the population boost sought by Chinese leaders in the near term, according to a study released Friday. Any potential benefits the new “two-child” rule might have for the nation’s shrinking workforce and rapidly ageing population will not be felt for at least two decades, the study concluded. China is faced with deep demographic challenges thanks to the strict — and […]
by Martin PARRY SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s permanent sub-Antarctic research base at World Heritage-listed Macquarie Island has won a reprieve from closure and will instead get a multi-million dollar revamp, the government said Friday, in a boost for science. The Australian Antarctic Division announced in September the station on the island — which lies in the Southern Ocean between Australia and Antarctica — would shut after almost seven decades due to environmental contamination concerns and […]
(AFP) — One in four mammals, one in eight birds, 40% of all amphibians and nearly one in three conifer trees; all are at risk of dying out. Some 20,000 of the world’s plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction out of 73,600 monitored — 1.8 million have been listed in total. Some 800 are already described as extinct while 69 species are only able to survive in captivity. Within the world’s mammal […]
Lychee-flavored coffee infused with jasmine, or a ‘Chardonnay’ espresso served in a wine glass — whatever your taste, Japan’s swashbuckling baristas are bringing some serious sex appeal to the drink. https://youtu.be/uMvPOCOKPE4
A dozen biplanes from the 1920s and 1930s will fly 8,000 miles from Crete to Cape Town next month in a vintage aviation rally that harks back to the early days of air travel. https://youtu.be/ABm-wB2qK4Q
A high-pitched scream pierces the air as a “zombie witch” in a dirty, white dress sprints down a street at a Sydney university, hair whipping around wild eyes as she chases a group desperately scrambling to get out of her way. https://youtu.be/RuygpLkloY0
A Ugandan policeman has turned to rap and breakdancing to win over a skeptical public in a popular music video extolling the virtues of the police service. https://youtu.be/xac59MSZZSY
BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) — A brown bear was shot dead in Romania on Wednesday after entering from an adjacent forest and ambling over the roofs of a Transylvanian town, authorities said. “Two employees from the zoo tried to tranquilise it but this didn’t work,” said Luciana Lazar, a spokeswoman for police in Sibiu in central Romania. “So unfortunately the bear had to be killed because it became aggressive and people’s lives were in danger,” Lazar […]
