17+ hour, 23+ min ago   (645+ words) In a humble control room a few hours from Bhutan's capital, a team works around the clock to monitor the risks of the Himalayan country's rapidly melting glaciers. The glacial collapse that caused deadly floods on the Nepal-Tibet border late…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (332+ words) Kuwait Times Record August heat raises alarm over intensifying climate extremes PARIS: Europe’s climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Nino pattern…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (295+ words) MONTPELLIER, France: Senegalese engineers in hairnets and white gloves are carefully assembling a nanosatellite at a French lab—another step towards fostering their own space industry back home. Preparations are already under way for the building of future satellites at…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (429+ words) Kuwait Times Exceptional heat preceded Nepal glacier collapse: researcher PARIS: The mountain section whose collapse triggered fatal floods in Nepal and China on Aug 26 had experienced unprecedented heat for the time of year, meteorological data analyzed by a researcher shows....

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (361+ words) Robots protest rampant AI in Poland Kuwait Times Robots protest rampant AI in Poland WARSAW: Waving flags, "chanting" slogans, and marching in circles: around 30 robots took to the streets of Warsaw on Monday to campaign for AI regulation in front…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (278+ words) Turk decried that “a handful of men has almost unlimited power over AI, which we are repeatedly told has unimaginable computing capacity”. “They talk about freedom, but on closer inspection, this turns out to be little more than the freedom…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (334+ words) Kuwait Times Kenya steps up crocodile hunt as rising lakes fuel conflict Kenya's wildlife officers are trapping crocodiles on the shores of Lake Baringo in a bid to curb growing human-wildlife conflict as rising waters push the reptiles towards homes....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (204+ words) Kuwait Times Indonesia rescues orangutan mother and baby from wildfires JAKARTA: An orangutan mother and her baby, threatened by wildfires encroaching on their habitat in Indonesia, were rescued earlier this week, authorities said in a statement on Saturday. The vast…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (552+ words) Kuwait Times Rare train of Pacific cyclones fueled by historic El Nino WASHINGTON: Two powerful hurricanes and a strengthening tropical storm were churning through the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, over waters warmed by a historically strong El Nino climate episode....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (214+ words) Kuwait Times Kuwait University holds conference on energy research KUWAIT: Kuwait University announced on Wednesday the organization of the Ninth International Conference on Energy Research and Development during the period from November 17 to 19 at the Conference Center in Sabah Al-Salem…...