If you’re in the southern hemisphere and you happen to look up Sunday morning – or, for everyone else, if you happen to have Internet access – you may have the chance to see an annular solar eclipse. Unlike a total solar eclipse, this one will leave just a sliver of sunlight shining at the rim of the moon’s shadow as passes between Earth and the sun.
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‘Ring Of Fire’ Eclipse Set To Blaze In Southern Skies
If you’re in the southern hemisphere and you happen to look up Sunday morning – or, for everyone else, if you happen to have Internet access – you may have the chance to see an annular solar eclipse. Unlike a total solar eclipse, this one will leave just a sliver of sunlight shining at the rim of the moon’s shadow as passes between Earth and the sun.
Several trapped in China hotel fire
A major fire at a multi-storey luxury hotel in east China’s Jiangxi Province today trapped an unknown number of people, authorities said. Video footage of the blaze circulating on social media shows a thick, dark smoke billowing from several floors of the hotel.
FEATURE-Cartoons and calendars help Bolivian farmers dampen fire risk
A mix of high-tech satellite data and brightly colored cartoons is helping subsistence farmers around Riberalta in Bolivia’s northern Amazon pick the best time to burn off their land and reduce the risk of uncontrolled blazes, as persistent drought makes wildfires a hot issue in Latin America. “Fire is a real problem with these communities – it’s something they’re very concerned about,” said Veronica Ibarnegaray, program director at Bolivia’s Fundacion Amigos de la Naturaleza , explaining that slash-and-burn farming for crops and cattle is largely to blame.
The video installation that makes us swim in our own mess
COLOURFUL plastic bags swirl ethereally underwater. The sound of waves intermingles with human-made sounds such as shipping noise, commonplace in oceans.
NASA displays Apollo 1 capsule hatch 50 years after fire killed three astronauts
A relic from America’s first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo moon program. The scorched Apollo 1 capsule remains locked away in storage.
Comanche County man invents Bail Buster
COMANCHE COUNTY, OK A Comanche County welder is going above and beyond by inventing a machine that helps fire departments bust up hay bales caught on fire,making the blaze easier to put out. It’s call the “Bale Buster”.
NASA displays Apollo capsule hatch 50 years after fatal fire
A relic from America’s first space tragedy is finally going on display this week, 50 years after a fire on the launch pad killed three astronauts at the start of the Apollo moon program. The scorched Apollo 1 capsule remains locked away in storage.
NASA displays Apollo capsule hatch 50 years after fatal fire
During a launch pad test on Jan. 27, 19… . In this 1966 photo made available by NASA, technicians work on the Spacecraft 012 Command Module at Cape Kennedy, Fla., for the Apollo/Saturn 204 mission.
Dubai has new rules after high-rise fires, but few details
The Address Downtown, a 63-story building that caught fire on Dec. 31, 2015, is seen as it undergoes repairs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. Dubai authorities announced Sunday the city-state had new fire safety regulations, but offered few details on how they would be enforced after a series of skyscraper fires.
Ten displaced, dog killed in North Park house fire
Ten people were displaced and a dog died after a fire ripped through a North Park home early Monday, San Diego Fire-Rescue Department officials said. The first crew pulled up about 12:30 a.m. on Polk Avenue near Illinois Street to find the single-family home fully engulfed, with “heavy fire coming from every window in the house,” Battalion Chief David Gerboth said.
Artists, officials clash over safety of underground venues
About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub and unpermitted living quarters concealed in a warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport. Authorities searching the drab, two-story building found an illegally constructed dance floor, paired with a bar and DJ booth.
Underground music gets scrutiny after deadly Oakland fire
About a week after 36 people died in a fire at an underground music party in Oakland, inspectors acting on a complaint discovered a makeshift nightclub and unpermitted living quarters concealed in a warehouse near Los Angeles International Airport. Authorities searching the drab, two-story building found an illegally constructed dance floor, paired with a bar and DJ booth.