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Blue Origin set for first launch of giant New Glenn rocket 11 Jan 2025 - 10:58 pm
This handout photo courtesy of Blue Origin shows the New Glenn rocket on the launch pad at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on December 27, 2024. (Photo by HANDOUT / BLUE ORIGIN / AFP)
Blue Origin's first orbital launch now targeting Sunday 09 Jan 2025 - 08:14 pm
This undated handout picture courtesy of Blue Origin shows the New Glenn rocket during a successful integrated vehicle hotfire at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Photo by BLUE ORIGIN / AFP
A quarter of freshwater species face extinction: study 08 Jan 2025 - 07:30 pm
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Bezos's Blue Origin poised for first orbital launch next week 05 Jan 2025 - 02:43 pm
This undated handout picture courtesy of Blue Origin shows the New Glenn rocket during a successful integrated vehicle hotfire at Launch Complex 36 (LC-36) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Photo by BLUE ORIGIN / AFP
China says 2024 was its hottest year on record 02 Jan 2025 - 02:50 pm
The sun rises behind high-rise buildings in Beijing on September 6, 2024. Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP
Number of cyclones not increasing, but intensity is, data shows 31 Dec 2024 - 02:48 pm
This handout photo taken on November 11, 2024 and received from the Casiguran Municipal Risk Reduction Management Office (MDRRMO) shows government workers removing a fallen tree on a highway in Casiguran, Aurora province, after Typhoon Toraji hit the nation's northeast coast. Photo by Handout / Casiguran Municipal Risk Reduction Management Office / AFP
Climate change brought extreme weather, heat in 2024: UN 30 Dec 2024 - 08:25 pm
This aerial view shows houses submerged under water in Maiduguri in north-eastern Nigeria on September 10, 2024. (Photo by Audu Marte / AFP)
NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun 24 Dec 2024 - 09:11 pm
(FILES) This handout illustration obtained July 6, 2018 courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins APL shows an artistt's conception of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the spacecraft that will fly through the Sun's corona to trace how energy and heat move through the star's atmosphere. (Photo by HANDOUT / NASA/Johns Hopkins APL / AFP)
Saving the mysterious African manatee at Cameroon hotspot 24 Dec 2024 - 11:40 am
Aristide Takoukam Kamla (L), a marine biologist, researcher and conservationist specialising in the African manatee, talks to tourists and other biologists on a boat in Dizangue, on December 10, 2024. (Photo by Daniel Beloumou Olomo / AFP)
Scientists observe 'negative time' in quantum experiments 21 Dec 2024 - 01:48 pm
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SpaceX to launch more private astronaut missions to ISS 19 Dec 2024 - 10:00 pm
This handout image released by Nasa on September 19, 2024 shows the International Space Station pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour during a fly around of the orbiting lab that took place following its undocking from the Harmony module's space-facing port on November 8, 2021. (Photo by NASA / AFP)
New genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur identified in China's Yunnan 16 Dec 2024 - 10:15 pm
This photo taken on Dec. 14, 2024 shows the fossils of Lishulong wangi displayed in Lufeng City, southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Photo by Liu Zenghui/Xinhua)
Promising drug for treating rare childhood cancer: Study 14 Dec 2024 - 03:12 pm
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Single heat wave wiped out millions of Alaska's dominant seabird 12 Dec 2024 - 11:09 pm
This handout photo provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) shows common murres clustered together on a cliff ledge at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge on July 30, 2019. (Photo by Brie Drummond / US Fish & Wildlife Service / AFP) 
Possible cooling La Nina will be 'weak', 'short-lived': UN 11 Dec 2024 - 12:26 pm
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Natural disasters cause $310 billion in economic losses in 2024: Swiss Re 05 Dec 2024 - 11:57 pm
File: Pedestrians stand next to piled up cars following deadly floods in Sedavi, south of Valencia, eastern Spain, on October 30, 2024. (Photo by Jose Jordan / AFP)
'Scary' drought empties one of Bosnia's largest lakes 05 Dec 2024 - 06:42 pm
This photograph shows the shore of the Jablanicko artificial lake, through which the Neretva River flows, near the Bosnian town of Konjic, on December 5, 2024. Photo by ELVIS BARUKCIC / AFP
Wildlife commission lowers European wolf protections 03 Dec 2024 - 02:06 pm
(FILES) A wolf is photographed in a forest near the Russian border, in Hukkajarvi, eastern Finland, on May 16, 2022. (Photo by Olivier MORIN / AFP)