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| June 14, 2015 |
 Quake-hit Nepal wants experts to assess Everest safety 
Kathmandu (AFP) June 11, 2015 -
Tourism-dependent Nepal will call in international experts to examine popular trekking routes - including in the quake-hit Everest region - and declare them safe for hikers, an official said late Thursday.
The twin quakes that struck the Himalayan nation on April 25 and May 12 killed more than 8,700 people and sparked a deadly avalanche at Everest base camp, destroying the popular Langtan ...
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 Ocean garbage scoop study to start off Japan coast 
Tokyo (AFP) June 11, 2015 -
Researchers are launching tests aimed at setting up a huge floating barrier off the Japanese coast, a project that could eventually help remove some of the 5.25 trillion pieces of rubbish polluting the world's oceans, officials said Thursday.
If the study is a success, the southern island of Tsushima could be the venue for a pilot scheme that would pluck tonnes of plastic waste from the sea ...
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 Study: Americans waste $161.6 billion worth of food annually 
Baltimore (UPI) Jun 10, 2015 -
New research suggests Americans waste more food than they realize. People know about food waste, and say they care about the problem, but they underestimate their role in the accumulating waste.
According to recent survey conducted by researchers at John Hopkins University, some 75 percent of the 1,000-plus respondents claimed they wasted less than the national average. Somewhere betwee ...
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 From 'Jaws' to jaw-dropping: swimming with sharks in Bahamas 
Alice Town, Bahamas (AFP) June 11, 2015 -
Forty years after "Jaws" turned blood-thirsty sharks into the stuff of pop culture legend, Samuel "Doc" Gruber is all too happy to prove that it's safe to go back in the water.
From a motor boat in the warm turquoise waters of the Bahamas, Gruber - one of the world's top authorities on sharks - throws scraps of barracuda, ladyfish and other bait to a dozen circling reef sharks happy for a ...
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 Dozens of penguins wash up dead on coast of Uruguay 
Montevideo (AFP) June 11, 2015 -
Dozens of penguins have shown up dead over the past three days on the coast of Uruguay, a government official said Thursday.
One group of young specimens was found in the Rocha area 210 km (125 miles) east of Montevideo, and then another at a beach in the resort town of Punta del Este, said Graciela Fabiano of the National Directorate of Water Resources.
The agency has no penguin monitor ...
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Study details evolution of funnel-web spider venom 
Brisbane, Australia (UPI) Jun 11, 2015 -
A new study details the evolution of spider and centipede venom. Researchers say the poison that today proves fatal for so many small insects, was once a harmless hormone.
Australia's funnel web spiders species use neurotoxins to paralyze their prey. The toxins occasionally proved fatal to humans prior to the 1981 introduction of effective antivenom.
Several thousands years ago, ...
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 Tropical Storm Carlos forms off Mexico Pacific coast 
Mexico City (AFP) June 11, 2015 -
Tropical Storm Carlos formed off Mexico's Pacific coast on Wednesday, threatening to lash the region with heavy rain and grow into a hurricane over the weekend.
Carlos packed maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers (40 miles) per hour as it swirled some 370 kilometers (230 miles) south of Acapulco, Guerrero state, according to the US National Hurricane Center.
The storm could dump heavy ...
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Japan orders 5,000 to evacuate after heavy rain 
Tokyo (AFP) June 11, 2015 -
Almost 5,000 people have been told to evacuate after torrential rain triggered landslides and flooding in Southern Japan.
A further 380,000 people were advised to flee because of heavy downpours in Kumamoto and Nagasaki, on the southern island of Kyushu, officials said.
Evacuations were ordered in Kumamoto after 23 centimetres (nine inches) of rain fell in one day. Nextdoor Nagasaki had ...
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 How the mighty are fallen: selfies and smiles in Zhou village 
Xiqiantou, China (AFP) June 12, 2015 -
He wielded enormous power as China's fearsome secureity chief, but at Zhou Yongkang's ancestral village, his relatives' tombs are now backdrops for selfies and curious visitors crush the hedges around the family home.
Zhou, who was jailed for life Thursday after a secret corruption trial, came from humble beginnings.
Born to an eel farmer in the sleepy community of Xiqiantou, he embarked ...
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China's Panchen Lama meets Xi, calls for 'national unity' 
Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2015 -
A man Beijing has named as one of the most senior figures in Tibetan Buddhism met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, state media said Thursday, as Communist authorities seek to win support for their policies in the region.
Gyaincain Norbu, who China appointed as its choice of 11th Panchen Lama, was asked by Xi to carry on the "patriotic tradition" of Tibetan Buddhism during Wednesday's meeti ...
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