2021-10-14 Building Fire Takes 46 Lives in Taiwan
A nighttime building fire in southern Taiwan that took hours to bring under control killed 46 people Thursday. Officials in…
2021-10-14 Ukraine Airline Updates Work Clothes for Female Flight Attendants
Imagine you are preparing to take a flight. As you step onto the plane, you are greeted by a flight…
2021-10-14 81-Year-Old Skateboarder Learns New Tricks
Yoshio Kinoshita of Japan is not letting his age stop him from learning new tricks on a skateboard. Almost every…
2021-10-12 German Mushrooms Still Contain Radiation Linked to Chernobyl Disaster
Most wild mushrooms collected in Germany in recent years still showed radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. But the…
2021-10-11 Solar Panels Help French Winemaker Deal with Climate Change
Pierre Escudie has a vineyard in southwest France. He has put solar panels over his plants to both produce electricity…
2021-10-11 Market Grows for Products Made With Recycled Carbon
Diamonds, sunglasses and sports clothing can be made using carbon dioxide, or CO2, one of the major gases causing the…
2021-10-10 In Nigeria, New Money in Used Tires
Nigeria depends heavily on money from its oil exports. But businesswoman Ifedolapo Runsewe has identified another local resource that brings…
2021-10-10 Ukrainians Discover Jews’ Hiding Place during Holocaust
Diggers in Lviv, Ukraine, have uncovered new underground hiding places where Jews fled from Nazi German forces during World War…
2021-10-10 Air-to-Water Machines Available in Dry Area of US
If a machine could make water out of air but cost a lot of money, would you buy it? In…
2021-10-10 Activists: Native People Are Best Caretakers of the Amazon Area
Environmental activists say protecting native people and their right to ancestral lands is critical to saving the rainforest in Brazil.…
2021-10-09 Robots Speed up Greece’s Mail Service
A group of small robots are helping speed up mail delivery service in Greece’s capital city of Athens. Fifty-five, four-wheeled…
2021-10-09 Zimbabwe’s Vaccine Requirements Add Difficulties to the Poor
Zimbabwe is requiring its 500,000 government employees and several other groups to get vaccinated against COVID-19. This sets the southern…
2021-10-08 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Journalists Ressa and Muratov
Reporters Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The…
2021-10-07 Tanzanian Writer Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his writing on the “effects of colonialism…
2021-10-07 Historic California Oil Spill Prompts Calls to Ban Drilling
The recent oil spill off the California coast has environmental activists once again asking for a ban on drilling. While…