HONG KONG (AP) – Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Friday after spending nearly seven months in space, setting a record for the longest on-orbit stay by a Chinese crew.
WASHINGTON (AP) – In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.
LONDON (AP) – The United Kingdom smashed a century-old temperature record for the second time in 24 hours on Tuesday as a spring heat wave continued to scorch parts of Western Europe, triggering government warnings about risks to life. Several drownings were reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) – One of the most accomplished mountain guides on Mount Everest is not ready to hang up his boots.
WASHINGTON (AP) – A warmer world will likely make bigger and more damaging hail, a new study said. Because climate change from the burning of fossil fuels should make more high-energy unstable air, which is conducive to hail forming, hail bigger than a large marble will increase between 38% and 47% by the end of the century.
MUSANZE, Rwanda (AP) – A guide called out to endangered golden monkeys with grunts and clicks to signal he posed no threat, a familiar sound in the mist-covered forests of Rwanda ‘s Volcanoes National Park. Here in one of Africa’s most well-known parks, steep ridges and dense vegetation often obscure even the largest mountain gorillas.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – A dying star has never looked so lovely. The Gemini North Telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak, Mauna Kea, captured the star in its last gasps. The image was released Thursday by the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, which operates the telescope.
BUNIA, Congo (AP) – People set fire to an Ebola treatment center in a town at the heart of the outbreak in eastern Congo on Thursday after being stopped from retrieving the body of a local man, a witness and a senior police officer said, as fear and anger grow over a health crisis that doctors are struggling to contain.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) – Health officials believe the Ebola outbreak in Congo started weeks ago and say they haven’t identified the source. The outbreak has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organization and the death toll has risen to more than 130 with around 600 suspected cases.
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