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GENEVA, Switzerland – The World Health Organization released new guidelines regarding mosquito control due to the continued spread of the zika virus. Said guidelines focused on the use of insecticides, as well as destruction of breeding sites. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/ZFZN2ZjZX3w
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — Antarctic blue whales, the largest creatures on the planet, likely belong to three populations that feed alongside each other but breed in separate oceans, according to Australian-led research published Wednesday. Using the largest data set ever obtained from the critically endangered subspecies, the study in the Scientific Reports journal seeks to shed light on blue whale populations to aid their conservation. “We found genetic evidence that there are three groups of […]
by Laurent BARTHELEMY BEIJING, China (AFP) — Ray Tomlinson, the US programmer credited with inventing email in the 1970s and choosing the “@” symbol for the messaging system, died at the age of 74, his employer said Sunday. Tomlinson invented direct electronic messages in 1971. Before his invention, users could only write messages to others on a limited network. “A true technology pioneer, Ray was the man who brought us email in the early days […]
QUEZON City, Philippines — The partial solar and penumbral lunar eclipses will be witnessed this month. According to the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), the penumbral eclipse will be eight percent visible from the parts of Mindanao on Wednesday, March 9.
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Food security is a strategic issue, said Han Changfu, Chinese Agriculture Minister at a news briefing for the fourth session of the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing on Monday. Han said that food security is always a major issue in China, a country with a population of 1.3 billion. China’s grain output has been increasing for 12 consecutive years to reach 621 million tons in 2015, but in the […]
By Caesar Vallejos Eagle News Service online correspondent BARCELONA, Spain (Eagle News) — Top executives from leading brands that drive the growth of the digital age led by Google, YouTube, Twitter, Jukin Media and Gleam Futures acknowledge mobile as the primary platform that has been fuelling the social video phenomenon. In the “Social Video Phenomenon” track of the Mobile, Media, Innovation and Experience Summit at the Mobile World Congress held last February 24, 2016 […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health is studying methods on how to make effective health warning for those who buy cigarettes by piece. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
by Natsuko FUKUE Fujimi, Japan (AFP) — Rescue dog Gonta, outfitted with a GPS-enabled backpack but driven by his own innate sense of smell, jumps onto a pile of collapsed rubble to find buried survivors. Though just a drill, the intensity of the Brittany spaniel in scouring the mound of broken concrete highlights the key role of sniffer dogs in saving lives when buildings collapse, such as in earthquakes or explosions. Ten-year-old Gonta helped search for […]
NASA released a new photo on Thursday (March 3) showing a chain of snow-capped mountains stretching across the dark section on Pluto known as Cthulhu Regio. Scientists believe the bright material highlighted on the image may be primarily methane, which has condensed as ice onto the peaks from Pluto’s atmosphere, NASA’s website said. The compositional data was obtained using the Ralph/Multispectal Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft on July 14, 2015. The […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Joyful events — the birth of a child, a big win by your team — can trigger a dangerous condition called the “broken heart syndrome”, doctors and researchers reported Thursday. Takotsubo syndrome, as it is also known, involves the sudden weakening of heart muscles, causing the left ventricle — the chamber which pushes oxygen-rich blood through the body — to balloon out abnormally at the bottom. Besides acute […]
KIDAPAWAN CITY, North Cotabato (PIA) — Mt. Apo, the country’s highest peak, will be open for the Holy Week climb but only for a limited number of climbers, an official here announced. Joey Recimilla, city tourism officer, told Philippine Information Agency 12 that the Mt. Apo Natural Park Protected Area Management Board’s (MANP-PAMB) Eco-Tourism Committee in its meeting on February 26 decided to regulate entry to Mt. Apo because of the prevailing El Nino […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — The effects of climate change on food production could cause 500,000 extra deaths by 2050 compared to a world without global warming, according to a study released Thursday. If greenhouse gas emissions continue at current rates, this would cut projected increases in food availability by about a third before mid-century, the study found. As of 2015, some 800 million people in the world are undernourished, meaning they cannot meet daily minimum dietary […]
