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Study examines how AI might affect urban life in 2030, including healthcare, safety and security
A panel of academic and industrial thinkers has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in art...
UN’s new environment chief warns pollution kills as many people as cancer a year
The new head of the United Nations environment agency has laid out key issues facing the intern...
Peers and public perception influence firefighters against safety equipment, research finds
Analysis by a team from Drexel University in the US, have found that firefighters may shun safety ge...
New non-commercial initiative to fight ransomware
EU: Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab have joined forces to launch an...
World Risk Report 2016: Inadequate infrastructure pushes up the risk of disaster
Inadequate infrastructure and weak logistic chains substantially increase the risk that an extreme n...
Hong Kong University chemists synthesise 'game changing' antibiotic
Dr Xuechen Li of HKU Department of Chemistry and his research team, together with collaborators in U...
Earthquake in central Italy leaves dozens dead
At least 73 people have been killed in an earthquake that hit a mountainous area of central Italy, a...
India floods: Several dead and thousands rescued
Floods across India have killed more than 30 people and displaced thousands. Central Madhya Pradesh...
Germans told to stockpile food and water for civil defence
For the first time since the Cold War the German government is advising citizens to stockpile food a...
Louisiana floods: One of the worst recent US disasters
Days of heavy rain have caused historic flooding in the US state of Louisiana, bringing as much...
California wildfires: Ferocious fires evict thousands
Firefighters are continuing to tackle a huge blaze in southern California, with several of them desc...
Climate disasters increase risk of armed conflict in multi-ethnic countries
Climate disasters like heat-waves or droughts enhance the risk of armed conflicts in countries with ...
Has a new temperature record been broken?
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has set up a committee to examine whether Mitrabah,...
Researchers find antibiotic resistant bacteria after sewage spills
University of South Florida researchers investigating the aftermath of a September 2014 sewer line b...
Flood damage in Germany could multiply owing to climate change, study finds
Flood-related losses can be expected to increase considerably in Germany as a result of climate chan...
The first six months of 2016 were the warmest since NASA's modern temperature records began
The first six months of 2016 were the warmest six-month period in NASA's modern temperature record, ...
At least 84 killed after lorry crashes through crowd at Bastille Day fireworks display in Nice, France
At least 84 people have died, including children, after a lorry slammed through a crowd celebrating ...
A giant quake may lurk under Bangladesh and beyond
A huge earthquake may be building beneath Bangladesh, the most densely populated nation on earth. Sc...