China emphasized building safety and ordered a nationwide review of substandard buildings on Saturday following the death of 17 people in a building collapse.
Earlier on Saturday Egyptian air traffic control said they lost contact with the Russian airliner en route from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg.
Search and rescue work ended early Saturday morning on a collapsed building in central China's Henan Province where 17 workers died, with several people responsible now in police custody, authorities said Saturday.
UN, 30 October 2015 – The number of tourists travelling the world during the first eight months of this year reached 810 million, a more than 4 per cent increase from the same period in 2014, thanks to “robust” travel to Europe, according to the United Nations World Tourism Barometer.
A rare intense tropical cyclone has formed in the Arabian Sea and is forecast to dump eight years of rain in about 48 hours on typically arid regions of the Arabian Peninsula.
Plans by 146 countries to curb greenhouse gas emissions will slow climate change this century and keep alive a goal of limiting a rise in temperatures to two degrees Celsius (3.6° Fahrenheit), the United Nations said on Friday.
The United Nations weather and climate agency said yesterday there was no cause for alarm about a record-size hole this month in the ozone layer, that shields life on earth from the sun, as it should shrink again.
Persistent drought in northern Australia is having potentially deadly consequences as snakes seek refuge in urban areas during their quest for water.
Rosneft subsidiary RN-Exploration and ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Mozambique Offshore Ltd. will discuss the details of their participation in gas and oil exploration in three areas in Mozambique with the country's government.
Earthquake survivors in Pakistan and Afghanistan emerged from a third night without shelter Thursday, as village leaders warned they had nothing to protect children from the freezing conditions while rescuers struggle to reach isolated communities.
Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant (NPP) has performed a unique replacement and installation of a new 370-tonne turbine generator stator of its 1,000 megawatt (MW) sixth reactor, officials said Wednesday.
Some 2.5 million tourists from China visited Russia in 2015, and their number is expected to triple by 2020, a deputy head of the Federal Agency for Tourism said on Wednesday.
The Chinese government is busy preparing emergency aid for earthquake-hit Afghanistan and Pakistan and is willing to provide further assistance based on their needs, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.
German automaker Volkswagen suffered its first loss in 15 years in the third quarter, in the wake of the scandal caused by its tampering with emissions devices.
UN, 27 October 2015 – Ethiopia is experiencing its worst Drought in 30 years according to the United Nations, with levels of acute need across all humanitarian sectors having already exceeded levels seen in the Horn of Africa Drought of 2011, and which are projected to become far more severe in 2016.
Scorching temperatures are already standard for people living in the Arabian Gulf, but by the end of the century parts of the region could become so hot that it will be impossible for humans to spend time outside, a new study has warned.
From 2005 to 2014, the Asia-Pacific region had 1,625 reported disaster events, leaving approximately 500,000 people dead, a United Nations report said on Tuesday.
Turkey has filed an arbitration case against Gazprom, disputing the price for Russian gas, the head of press service of the country’s Ministry of energy and natural resources told TASS on Tuesday.
WMO will examine whether Hurricane Patricia, which made landfall in Mexico on 24 October, set a new record as the most intense tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere.
Shipping experts are considering routine navigation through Arctic waters to link China and Europe, a shortcut to bypass the route that passes through the Malacca Strait and Suez Canal.
A powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake killed almost 150 people in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan Monday, officials said.
A
group of Egyptian and foreign experts launched Sunday a new bid to
unravel the "secrets" of the pyramids, including a search for hidden
chambers inside four famed pharaonic monuments.
Five people were killed in accidents related to the bad weather that
struck the coastal governorate of Alexandria on Sunday, the health
ministry said.
Forest and agriculture fires in Indonesia killed 10 more people, bringing the total death toll to 17, a government spokesman said here Saturday.
Negotiators wound down a bruising round of talks Friday with broad agreement on the rough outlines of a UN climate pact to be inked in December.
Mexico's climate negotiator issued a tearful plea Friday to U.N. colleagues to put aside their differences for a global pact, as a superhurricane headed for his country.
Ό,τι
και να έχει ειπωθεί για τις εταιρείες Eni και Total στην κυπριακή ΑΟΖ
πρέπει να επικαιροποιηθεί με τα νέα δεδομένα που δημιούργησε η ανακάλυψη
του υπεργιγαντιαίου κοιτάσματος Ζορ.
The prospects of Iranian gas entering the European market are very distant, Gazprom Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee Alexander Medvedev said Friday.
Hurricane Patricia has strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 storm as it churns towards Mexico's Pacific coast, the United States National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Dos aviones del Ministerio de Situaciones de Emergencia de Rusia empezaron a extinguir el fuego en las islas indonesias de Sumatra y Kalimantan, comunica la institución este jueves.
New analysis of data suggests Earth is actually an early bloomer, and 92 percent of the habitable planets that will ever exist are yet to be born.
Dense haze produced by Indonesian forest fires has caused some of the worst pollution levels in southern Thailand for a decade, officials said Thursday, delaying flights in an area popular with tourists.
The Philippines' death toll from typhoon Koppu reached 41 while 78 others were reported injured in the northern part of the country, the state disaster management agency said Thursday.
Two Russian Beriev Be-200 amphibian aircraft arrived in Indonesia on Wednesday to participate in the international operation to extinguish wildfires on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, Russia’s embassy in Jakarta has said.
More fertile lands will be needed as the global demand for food, water and energy will increase with population growth, a senior official of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification has said.
The Tibetan plateau, home to the third largest store of ice that feeds Asia’s six great rivers, is highly vulnerable to climate change, researchers say, warning that over two-thirds of the glaciers could disappear by 2050.
A major 7.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Vanuatu, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
For the first time in 30 years or so, a poisonous sea snake was found on a Southern California beach, drawn far north of its usual habitat by what experts think are the warming ocean waters caused by El Niño.
A former Fukushima nuclear plant worker has been diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer, Japanese authorities said Tuesday, in the first such confirmation more than four years after the worst atomic accident in a generation.
At least 10 people were killed and five others injured as typhoon Koppu, locally named Lando, lashed the northern Philippines for the second day, the government reported Monday night.
Ecologistas en Acción ha exigido este lunes en un comunicado que se hagan públicos los términos del acuerdo firmado esta mañana entre España y Estados Unidos para limpiar el territorio contaminado de Palomares (sur de España).
A major salt lake on northwest China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has more than tripled in size for years due to climate change, posing a threat to local infrastructure and animals living nearby.
The Philippines on Monday experienced an earthquake even as Typhoon Koppu, locally known ad Typhoon Lando, began weakening after wreaking chaos and destruction.
Washington and Madrid have reached a new agreement in principle for the United States to clean up land contaminated by radiation from un-detonated nuclear bombs that accidentally fell on a site in Spain in 1966, a joint statement said Monday.
Six people were dead and two others were seriously injured in s forest fire in Java Island of Indonesia on Sunday, a senior official said Monday.
A teenager was crushed to death as powerful Typhoon Koppu tore down trees and houses and unleashed landslides and floods across a wide swath of the Philippines on Sunday, forcing thousands to flee.
Όσο κι αν φαίνεται παράξενο με τα νέα δεδομένα που υπάρχουν στην Ελλάδα,
η έρευνα συνεχίζεται διότι πιστεύουμε ότι η καινοτομία είναι απαραίτητη
για την εξέλιξη της συνέχειας. Και από την πλευρά μας δίνεται έμφαση σε
αυτή όσον αφορά στις εφαρμογές για το μέλλον της Ελλάδας, την ΑΟΖ, τον
ζεόλιθο και την καινοτομία.
Finnish power and marine technology company Wartsila announced on Friday that it will build a major power plant in Acajutla, El Salvador.
Pour la deuxième journée consécutive vendredi, habitants de Rio et
touristes se sont rués sur les plages de la ville en quête d'un peu de
fraîcheur, alors que les thermomètres enregistrent des records à près de
43 degrés Celsius.
Waves may reach up to 14 meters in open sea and heavy rains and flooding should be expected.
The Philippines is starting to evacuate residents of the Aurora Province in the Central Luzon region as typhoon Lando (Koppu) approaches.
