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As wildfire season approaches, AI could pinpoint risky regions using satellite imagery

The U.S. has suffered from devastating wildfires over the last few years as global temperatures rise and weather patterns change, making the otherwise natural phenomenon especially unpredictable and s

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Warm weather threatens to reignite Arctic wildfires

The risk of wildfires is significantly enhanced by abnormal arid conditions. /Maja Suslin/TT/AP Active wildfires are being detected in the Arctic Circle as an unusually warm and dry spring thr

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Daily Crunch: Target acquires Deliv’s delivery tech

Target makes another acquisition, social platforms struggle with a “Plandemic” conspiracy video and Boston Dynamics’ robot Spot encourages social distancing.Here’s your Daily

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Spotlight: Rural Australian communities urge outsiders to "stay away" with COVID-19 fears

Australia is a country with thousands of remote small towns, isolated by hundreds of kilometers of desert, farmland and bush. While these may seem like an ideal sanctuary during the COVID-19 outbreak

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World lacks coordinated action of all countries to suppress COVID-19: UN chief

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday that the world lacks a coordinated action of all countries to suppress COVID-19, while noting that it

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UN chief appeals for solidarity with developing world in face of COVID-19

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday appealed for solidarity with developing countries in stemming the COVID-19 pandemic. He argued that the international c

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Conserving 30% of land reduces extinction risk of species by half

Of the many solutions under discussion to prevent the alarming extinction rates, one of the major successes could come from conserving land.The extinction risk faced by more than one million speci

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Australian GP to go ahead, F1 teams remain worried about coronavirus

A view of the Australian GP at Albert Park in Melbourne, March 25, 2018. /VCG When teams are busy with pre-season testing and the world is dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, Formula One (F

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Leonardo DiCaprio to donate 3 mln USD for Australia bushfire relief

Hollywood heart-throb Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental organization said Thursday it will donate 3 million U.S. dollars to help firefighting efforts in Australia. The Oscar winner's Earth Alliance

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Australian navy races to rescue thousands as new fire threat looms

Navy ship HMAS Choules departs from a fleet base in Sydney, January 1, 2020. /AP Photo The Australian navy has begun an operation to rescue thousands of people stranded on the east coast of th

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Several wildfires reported in northern Texas

WildfiresstartedMondayinseveralcountiesinthenorthofTexas,southernUnitedStates.FortWorthFireDepartmenthelpedcontainawildfirenearInterstate20andWalshRanchinAledo,

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Spread of wildfire in W. Canada slowing down as evacuees move again

The spread of the huge wildfire in western Canada that has forced a massive evacuation in the oil sands town of Fort McMurray in northern Alberta province appeared to be slowing down on Sunday, partly thanks to favorable weather.

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Wildfire destroys scores of homes, evacuates hundreds in Texas

A wildfire has burned down about 100 homes and evacuated hundreds of residents in the U.S. state of Texas as of Monday afternoon, local media reported.