MAKUENI, Kenya — On a dry riverbed one recent sunny morning, residents of Kasengela village toiled away mixing cement and sand to make concrete. The sound of their shovels resonated through the valley while other residents, working in pairs, carried rocks to the site in wooden frames. They were building a sand dam, a structure … Read more
River, an Indian startup manufacturing electric two-wheelers, has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Japan’s Yamaha Motor as the nearly three-year-old startup looks to increase R&D spending and expand the market presence of its first electric ‘SUV’ two-wheeler in India. The all-equity Series B round also saw participation from startup’s existing investors, … Read more
NASA’s eye in the Martian sky has spotted evidence of dried-up, primordial rivers on Mars. The space agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a snapshot of another time, billions of years ago, when water flowed on the surface of a temperate Mars. NASA recently posted the image on its “Planetary Photojournal.” “This image of ridges in … Read more
BERLIN — Parts of northern and central Europe continued to grapple with flooding on Thursday after heavy rain. A barrier near the German city of Magdeburg was opened for the first time in a decade to ease pressure from the Elbe River, and some animals were removed from their enclosures at a safari park in … Read more
Bobby Rivers, a prolific movie critic and entertainment reporter known for his work on the Food Network and VH1, has died. He was 70. According to WISN — the Wisconsin television station the TV host worked for early on in his journalism career — Rivers died on Tuesday, Dec. 26 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Additionally, the host’s sister, Betsy … Read more
Rivers of lava spewed from a fissure in the mountainside, snaking downwards and erupting in fountains of red and gold molten rock when the Fagradalsfjall volcano erupted this week in a fishing town in southwestern Iceland. The fiery liquid illuminates the smoke-filled sky in Grindavik, a small fishing town just 50 kilometers (30 miles) from … Read more
Johnny Rivers’ large American success of the Sixties and 70s might not have been absolutely mirrored all over the world. However that ought to take nothing away from the Brooklyn-born artist’s contribution to popular culture. Not solely did Johnny place 29 singles on the Billboard Scorching 100 over a prolonged 13-year span, he scored 9 … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment Hong Kong skilled essentially the most rainfall in an hour since data started 140 years in the past, resulting in flash flooding that turned streets into raging rivers that regarded higher suited to white-water rafting than metropolis dwelling. Hong Kong climate authorities issued a black warning, an alert that greater than … Read more
Indignant readers flooded TikTok and the GoodReads web page of an writer’s forthcoming e book with one-star evaluations after the writer attacked one explicit reviewer for score the novel 4 out of 5 stars. GoodReads appears to have paused evaluations of the e book in response, freezing the web page because it was on Wednesday. … Read more
An indication warning the general public of harmful river situations is posted alongside the American River in Sacramento, California on Might 23, 2023. Photograph: Haven Daley (AP) A collection of consecutive snowstorms dropped a variety of snow throughout California’s mountains this winter. And now all of that snow is lastly melting and filling up the … Read more