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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 A study led by Malin Pinsky, an ecology and evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, reveals that rising temperatures caused by climate change have a profound and dual impact: they destabilize animal populations and speed up these changes as temperatures rise more rapidly. Published on January 29 in Nature, the research, conducted by an international team, explores how temperature fluctuations - whether warming or cooling - affect the composition of species in ecosystems. The findings suggest that ... read more |
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China's DeepSeek-R1: A Game-Changing AI Release or Strategic Gesture?Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 28, 2025 In a move that has taken the global artificial intelligence (AI) community by surprise, DeepSeek, a private Chinese artificial intelligence company founded in 2023 by entrepreneur Liang Wenfeng, has ... more  
Life's building blocks in Bennu samplesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases - building blocks of DNA and RNA - in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Asteroids, small airless bodies wi ... more  
A Dream Deferred Why Is Traveling Across Africa So Hard for AfricansJohannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, carries his frustration as visibly as he carries his passport. To travel across the continent he calls home, he needs 35 visas - each a bureaucratic hurdle ... more  
EagleView Unveils Advanced Property Data EcosystemLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 EagleView, a leader in aerial imagery and geospatial intelligence, has announced the release of its advanced property data ecosystem. The platform aggregates more than 60 petabytes of high-definitio ... more |
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Planet Partners with European Space Agency to Contribute to Copernicus MissionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Planet Labs Germany GmbH, a prominent provider of daily Earth observation data and insights, has announced a new multi-year contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). This agreement sees Planet ... more |
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Revolutionary Irrigation System Unearthed in Amazon Linked to Neolithic RevolutionMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 A groundbreaking discovery by an international research team has revealed the existence of an advanced irrigation and drainage system used by the pre-Columbian Casarabe society in the Amazon. This s ... more  
Smart carbon dioxide removal yields economic and environmental benefitsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 Last year the Earth exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above preindustrial times, a threshold beyond which wildfires, droughts, floods, and other climate impacts are expected to escalate in fre ... more  
Bereaved, threatened: Priest exposing Italy's toxic mafia firesCaivano, Italy (AFP) Jan 30, 2025 Father Maurizio Patriciello lost four relatives to cancers he blames on toxic waste dumps operated by the mafia in southern Italy, but despite death threats he has never stopped campaigning for justice. ... more  
Trump's environment pick confirmed, drawing cheers from industryWashington (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 President Donald Trump's nominee to head the US Environmental Protection Agency was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday, drawing cheers from the fossil fuel industry and sparking alarm among green groups. ... more |
 
Warm weather breaks Moscow records; Avalanche kills 4 Norwegian skiers in FranceMoscow (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 January 2025 is on track to be one of the warmest in Moscow on record, meteorologists reported on Wednesday, with two of the past days breaking all-time daily temperature highs. ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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The pioneering science linking climate to weather disastersParis (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 Extreme weather is becoming more destructive as the world warms, but how can we say that climate change intensified the fires in Los Angeles, typhoons in the Philippines, or flooding in Spain? ... more  
Climate activists appeal long UK jail terms for 'peaceful protest'London (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 Sixteen British climate protesters Wednesday began an appeal against tough jail terms imposed for their activist campaign, as two others faced court for damaging Stonehenge. ... more  
UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debateLondon (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 Britain's first teacherless AI classroom may be an "outlier", but it underlines the potential benefits and risks of a UK government drive to rollout artificial intelligence in education, experts say. ... more 
Blurred posts, banned accounts: Abortion groups decry Meta 'suppression'Washington (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 Blurred posts, downranked searches and deleted accounts: Since President Donald Trump's election, groups sharing information about abortion pills say they have faced a surge in online censorship-hindering their ability to reach women urgently seeking the procedure. ... more |
 
Danish PM says received European support over Trump's Greenland bidParis (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday said she had received strong support from Europe as she sought backing to counter US President Donald Trump's threats to take over Greenland. ... more  
Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster', but no one can agree how to fix itEin Gedi, Israel (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel's flagship beach drawing international tourists to float in the world-famous waters of the Dead Sea. ... more  
A new vaccine approach could help combat future coronavirus pandemicsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 A new experimental vaccine developed by researchers at MIT and Caltech could offer protection against emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2, as well as related coronaviruses, known as sarbecoviruses, that ... more 
Global sea levels could rise up to 1.9 meters by 2100 under high-emissions scenarioSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 A research team led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), in collaboration with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands, has projected that global sea le ... more |
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Smouldering woody debris drives air pollution in the AmazonParis, France (SPX) Jan 29, 2025 A major study funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed that fire emissions in the Amazon and Cerrado regions are predominantly caused by the smouldering combustion of woody debris. Thi ... more 
Mega-iceberg drifts towards Antarctic penguin islandParis (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 The world's biggest iceberg - more than twice the size of London - could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals. ... more 
UN confirms US demand to withdrawal from Paris climate dealUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 The United Nations confirmed Tuesday it had received notification from Washington of its withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, a key campaign pledge of US President Donald Trump. ... more  
ADB approves $500mn disaster financing for PhilippinesManila (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 The Asian Development Bank approved a second $500 million loan for the disaster-prone Philippines on Wednesday, allowing the country quick access to financing during natural calamities or health-related emergencies. ... more |
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Doomsday clock ticks one second, closest ever to midnightWashington (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 The "doomsday clock" symbolizing how close humanity is to destruction ticked one second closer to midnight Tuesday as concerns on nuclear war, climate and public health were jolted by US President Donald Trump's return. ... more |
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Influential podcasts fuel 'harmful' health misinformationWashington (AFP) Jan 29, 2025 Unfounded cancer cures, dubious anti-vaccine narratives, and false claims that neurological disorders can be "reversed" through diets: influential American and European podcasters are peddling harmful health misinformation while largely escaping scrutiny, researchers say. ... more 
Climate change made ferocious LA wildfires more likely: studyWashington (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 Human-driven climate change set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the dangerous overlap between flammable drought conditions and powerful Santa Ana winds, according to an analysis published Tuesday. ... more 
UN warns of ethnic attacks in eastern DR CongoUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 The UN peacekeeping force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has warned of the risk of ethnically motivated attacks as conditions deteriorate in the region, haunted by the legacy of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath. ... more  
Canada slow to respond to foreign interference: inquiryOttawa (AFP) Jan 28, 2025 The Canadian government's response to foreign interference - notably by China - was at times slow and poorly coordinated, a public commission concluded on Tuesday. ... more |
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