SHANGHAI (Reuters) – As China calculates the costs of its harshest flood season in more than three decades, the role played by the controversial and massive Three Gorges dam, designed to help tame the Yangtze River, has come under fire. a new scrutiny. Amid some of the heaviest rains on …
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ADDIS ABABA / CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have failed to reach agreement in a new round of talks organized by the African Union to regulate the flow of water from the giant Blue Nile hydroelectric dam built by Addis Ababa , the three countries said. A satellite …
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A new fossil discovery has revealed that New Zealand’s ancient monster penguins were not the only human-sized flightless birds that roamed our planet tens of millions of years ago. Recent findings in North America and Japan suggest that giant creatures like penguins also spread throughout the northern hemisphere. And these …
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We love soaring videos from other worlds. These impressive videos, created from images collected by spacecraft in orbit, can give us an idea of what it would be like to fly in a plane on another planet. This latest video from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft offers a …
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Earth’s oceans simmer with heat trapped by increasing amounts of greenhouse gases. But a patch of water in the North Atlantic stubbornly resists the trend and actually drops the temperature. This ‘cold drop’ has been a topic of interest to climatologists since it was first seen in 2015. Unfortunately, the …
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