Pathfinder 1 looks like a blimp, but much bigger. It's part of a wave of interest in "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.

The sight confronting the Royal Air Force rescue team was absolute horror: isolated in the middle of the North Sea, the Piper ...

Ukraine said in February a Russian drone had struck the protective shelter housing the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, the site ...

Tamil Nadu is launching the ambitious TN Shore project, a ₹1,675 crore initiative funded by the World Bank and state ...

Tokyo may be a futuristic metropolis, but its roots run deep in the 17th century when the city was known as Edo—then one of the world’s largest urban centers that flourished with commerce, ...

The sci-fi film Life, which underperformed at the box office despite a star-studded cast including Rebecca Ferguson, is ...

Indonesia’s environment ministry on Dec. 6 suspended private sector activity in a crucial high conservation value rainforest ...

President Prabowo Subianto compared the achievements of the beneficiaries of the MBG program in Indonesia with those in ...

The UN’s World Food Programme has a reputation for handing out large quantities of food in disaster zones and then moving on.

Researchers describe this potential disaster as the “polder effect.” Unlike regular floods, where water eventually drains ...

Claudia Ncutinamagara, a Burundian mother in Kakuma refugee camp, faces dire food shortages as aid cuts leave her family ...

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