The updated death toll came as President Biden and Vice President Harris visited storm-battered states.
Unlike most border changes that often happen due to conflicts, there is no dispute between Italy and Switzerland.
Working-class communities bear the brunt of Kathmandu’s floods, worsened by climate change and poor urban planning.
The storm is expected to hit southwestern city of Khaosiung, home to 2.7 million people, early on Thursday.
The space agency has out-of-this-world aims to grow ‘hotels’ and other structures using mushrooms and lunar dust.
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Global mean sea levels have risen faster in the 20th century than in any prior century over the past 3,000 years.
Embracing fish and other aquatic foods will be key to sustainably meeting global nutritional demands of the future.
Hurricane Helene has been downgraded to tropical storm but authorities warn rainfall and winds are still a danger.
About 2,000 firefighters, rescue workers and members of the military are fighting blazes around Quito.
The fish with beak-like mouth, now named Harriotta avia, prowls exclusively in deep waters of Australia and New Zealand.
A school scheme to educate poor children and clean up pollution in Lagos brought hope. Now its future is at risk.
Record rain inundated the area, which was still rebuilding following January’s 7.5 magnitude quake.
A motley crew of surfers, academics and fishers fight back against mining companies pillaging the country’s West Coast.
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Earth will get its very own ‘mini-moon’ which will remain in orbit for two months later this year.
