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'Hectic' bushfires threaten rural towns in Australian heatwave
AFP, Published on 09/01/2026
» SYDNEY - Bushfires threatened dozens of rural towns in southeast Australia on Friday, firefighters said as hot winds fanned "hectic" conditions in the tinder-dry countryside.
Injured tortoises make slow recovery from Greece fires
AFP, Published on 09/10/2023
» KALýVIA THORIKOú, Greece: In an animal shelter near Athens, veterinarian Kleopatra Gkika gently smears soothing cream on the leg of a tortoise, one of hundreds singed in Greece's devastating summer wildfires.
Extinct-in-the-wild species in conservation limbo
AFP, Published on 26/02/2023
» PARIS: For species classified as "extinct in the wild", the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown.
Pair of new studies point to natural Covid origin
AFP, Published on 27/07/2022
» WASHINGTON - An animal market in China's Wuhan really was the epicenter of the Covid pandemic, according to a pair of new studies in the journal Science published Tuesday that claimed to have tipped the balance in the debate about the virus' origins.
Forever young: Many cold-blooded creatures don't age, studies show
AFP, Published on 24/06/2022
» WASHINGTON - Scientists have discovered the secret to eternal youth: be born a turtle.
'Fierce' French wildfire forces evacuations near Saint-Tropez
AFP, Published on 18/08/2021
» COGOLIN (FRANCE) - Hundreds of French firefighters battled to contain a raging wildfire near the glitzy Mediterranean resort of Saint-Tropez on Tuesday, with thousands of residents and holidaymakers forced to evacuate.
No 'eureka moment': the evolution of climate science
AFP, Published on 02/08/2021
» PARIS: What if Earth's atmosphere was infused with extra carbon dioxide, mused amateur scientist Eunice Foote in an 1856 research paper that concluded the gas was very good at absorbing heat.
DMX, rap's explosive, tortured star, dies at 50
AFP, Published on 10/04/2021
» NEW YORK: DMX, the hardcore hip-hop star whose raw, snarling raps chronicled the struggles of the American street and his own inner pain, has died. He was 50 years old.
Insect invaders threaten Rome's iconic pines
AFP, Published on 06/12/2020
» ROME - Rome's majestic umbrella pines are as much part of the landscape as the ruins and cobbled streets, but they are under threat from a tiny insect invader -- the pine tortoise scale.
Reptiles vulnerable to unscrupulous pet trading
AFP, Published on 30/09/2020
» PARIS: More than a third of reptile species are bought and sold online in often-unregulated international trade, researchers said Tuesday, warning of the impact on wild populations of a pet market that puts a bounty on rare and newly discovered animals.