Ukraine war comes to Moscow as drones strike both capitals
Updated: 7am, 31st May, 2023 (AEST)Kyiv, UkraineReuters Ukrainian drones struck wealthy districts of Moscow on Tuesday, Russia said in what one politician called the most dangerous attack on the capital since World War II, while Kyiv was also hit from the air for the third time in 24 hours. Since Russia sent tens of thousands […]
Ukraine shoots down 10 missiles in Russian attacks, oil depot hit
Reuters Ukraine shot down 10 missiles and over 20 drones launched by Russia in overnight attacks on the capital Kyiv, the city of Dnipro and eastern regions, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office said in a statement that a fire had broken out on the outskirts of the north-eastern city of Kharkiv […]
At least nine dead in Russian air strikes on two Ukrainian cities; Zelenskiy visits troops near frontline
Updated: 9:30am (AEDT)Rzhyshchiv, Ukraine Reuters Russian air strikes on Ukrainian cities on Wednesday killed at least nine people in attacks that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said showed Moscow was not interested in peace. In a series of early-morning drone strikes, at least eight people were killed and seven were injured when two dormitories and a college […]
Wow!: How daredevil drones find nearly extinct plants hiding in cliffs
DAISY CHUNG, GLORIA DICKIE and SIMON SCARR, of Reuters, report on an innovative program in Hawaii to reach places too risky for humans in a search for the last surviving individuals before it’s too late…
“Faster and safer”: Asian farmers turn to drones, apps for labour, climate challenges
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how falling technology costs, labour shortages are driving popularity of digital tools to improve crop yields, farm incomes in Asia…
India tests drones to take COVID-19 vaccines to rural areas
Thomson Reuters Foundation Villagers in remote corners of rural India could start seeing curious flying objects in the skies as health experts test out drones to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to isolated communities amid a deadly surge in coronavirus cases. The southern state of Telangana, which is part of the World Economic Forum’s Medicine from the Sky project […]
New Zealand backs drone project to protect endangered dolphins
Wellington, New ZealandReuters New Zealand’s government said on Friday that it was backing a new project that uses drone technology to understand and protect the endangered Māui dolphins in the country. Maui dolphins live in a small stretch of ocean off the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island and current estimates suggest that only […]
FLYING HIGH: BRAZILIAN TRIBE KEEPS WATCH OVER FOREST WITH DRONES
FABIO TEXEIRA. of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how a Brazilian tribe is using new technologies to guard against deforestation…
Mobile phones top the list of tech speeding up aid operations in 2019 – poll
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Mobile technology had the biggest benefit of all technology on aid operations in 2019, according to an exclusive poll by the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Wednesday, with drones and satellites also helping to speed up help to people in need. From drones delivering children’s vaccines in Vanuatu to satellite early warning […]
ESSAY: WHAT CAN DRONES DO TO PROTECT CIVILIANS IN ARMED CONFLICT?
In an article first published on The Conversation, MICHAEL YEKPLE, a PhD candidate at the University of Central Florida, looks at the potential impact drones can make on the world’s battlefields in protecting the vulnerable…