Science & Environment
Japan evacuates 100,000 in floods sparked by rare torrential rains
Japan evacuated about 100,000 people from their homes on Thursday, after rare torrential rains unleashed floods that left at least two people ...Linda becomes major hurricane far off Mexican coast
Hurricane Linda strengthened to a major storm Tuesday as it swirled in the Pacific far off the Mexican coast, US forecasters said.Soyuz rocket with three astronauts blasts off for ISS
A Soyuz spacecraft with three astronauts on board, including the first Dane to fly into space, blasted off towards the International Space ...Dominica pleads for help as storm death toll tops 30
Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is pleading with world leaders to come to the rescue of his Caribbean island nation after it ...Year-long Mars isolation experiment begins
Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA ...Tropical Storm Erika kills at least 27 in Dominica
Tropical Storm Erika left at least 27 people dead when it swept over the tiny island nation of Dominica, officials reported, as ...Landslides kill five in Nepal quake zone
Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall killed at least five people in central Nepal, four of them in a shelter for survivors of ...Asteroid will not destroy Earth next month: NASA
The world can breathe easy. A giant asteroid is not hurtling towards Earth about to wipe out much of the Americas, NASA ...Tropical Storm Erika nears Antigua and Barbuda en route to Puerto Rico
A fast-moving Tropical Storm Erika neared Antigua and Barbuda early Thursday, dumping rain on the eastern Caribbean on a path expected to ...Quake-hit Nepal opens Everest for climbing
Nepal Sunday opened Everest for the autumn season, granting its first climbing permit four months after a deadly earthquake triggered an avalanche ...