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  Barcelona (AFP) June 2, 2025 Mainland Spain experienced its hottest May day ever on Friday, with the average temperature surpassing 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit), national weather agency AEMET said on Monday. The average temperature across the country hit 24.08C, breaking the previous record for the month of 23.73C set on May 21, 2022, according to provisional data from the agency. "This was the hottest day for a month of May across mainland Spain since the beginning of the data series in 1950," AEMET wrote on ... read more |
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Ancient Scottish Fossils Push Back Tetrapod TimelineLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 In 1984, an amateur fossil hunter in Scotland uncovered a near-complete specimen that reshaped scientists' understanding of early land vertebrates. The small creature, just 20 centimeters long, turn ... more 
Rock record illuminates oxygen historySyracuse NY (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question, "How did we get here?" These moments also shed light on the question, "Where are we going"? - offering scientists deeper in ... more  
New digital tool provides satellite monitoring of crop health across USLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2025 Researchers from the University of Kansas, with support from the KansasView and AmericaView programs, have created a web-based app for the public that provides free satellite monitoring and analysis ... more  
Coral-rich Greek archipelago hopes to gain from trawler banFournoi, Greece (AFP) June 3, 2025 As a reddish dawn broke over the tiny, coral-rich Greek archipelago of Fournoi, Manolis Mytikas's wooden fishing boat slowly glided home, his nets almost empty. ... more |
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Nigeria flood victims mourn missing bodies as death toll stagnatesMokwa, Nigeria (AFP) June 2, 2025 On a hot and humid afternoon in Mokwa, Nigeria, Fatima and Habiba Jibrin sat under a mango tree, waiting for the recovery of corpses they fear may never come. ... more |
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Dozens dead in twin attacks on Mali army bases, Timbuktu airport targetedBamako (AFP) June 2, 2025 Twin attacks on a Malian army base in the northern city of Timbuktu and in the centre of the country left dozens of soldiers dead, as well as at least a dozen assailants, security sources and local officials said on Monday. ... more  
Panama launches maintenance work at contested minePanama City (AFP) May 31, 2025 Panama's government said Friday it would start maintenance work at a major mine forced to shut by protests, but insisted the project was not tantamount to the pit reopening. ... more  
Arrests of Colombian ex-soldiers expose links to Mexican cartelsMorelia, Mexico (AFP) May 30, 2025 Ten Colombian former soldiers were among the suspects arrested after an improvised landmine killed six Mexican troops in a drug cartel heartland this week, authorities said Friday. ... more  
Pentagon deploys more U.S. troops to southern borderWashington DC (UPI) May 23, 2025 The Pentagon is sending an additional 1,115 soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Northern Command announced Thursday. ... more |
UK's muddy saltmarshes vital carbon 'sink', researchers sayLondon (AFP) May 30, 2025 Muddy saltmarshes are major stores of greenhouse gases and should be protected to help Britain in the battle against climate change, a new report said Friday. ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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Myanmar junta extends ceasefire again after quakeYangon (AFP) June 1, 2025 Myanmar's junta has extended a post-earthquake truce, after the expiry of a previous humanitarian ceasefire it was accused of flouting with a continued campaign of air strikes. ... more 
Atlantic ocean current unlikely to collapse with climate changePasadena CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, commonly referred to as the "AMOC," is a system of ocean currents confined to the Atlantic basin that plays a crucial role in regulating Earth's clim ... more 
World coming up short on promised marine sanctuariesBrest, France (AFP) June 2, 2025 A global target of having 30 percent of the oceans become protected areas by 2030 is looking more fragile than ever, with little progress and the United States backing away, conservationists say. ... more 
Oceans feel the heat from human climate pollutionParis (AFP) June 2, 2025 Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from the full impact of greenhouse gas emissions. ... more |
Nations urged to make UN summit a 'turning point' for oceansParis (AFP) June 2, 2025 Nations will be under pressure to deliver more than just rhetoric at a UN oceans summit in France next week, including much-needed funds to better protect the world's overexploited and polluted seas. ... more 
In a hotter future, what comes after coral reefs die?Paris (AFP) June 2, 2025 The fate of coral reefs has been written with a degree of certainty rare in climate science: at 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming, most are expected to die. ... more 
Iraq probes fish die-off in southern marshesNajaf, Iraq (AFP) June 2, 2025 Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern marshlands, the latest in a string of such events in recent years. ... more 
HRW warns Gulf labourers at risk as temperatures soarBeirut, Lebanon (AFP) June 1, 2025 Human Rights Watch said Sunday that migrant workers in the Gulf were at risk from extreme heat, urging countries to extend protections for labourers exposed to soaring temperatures. ... more |
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'Moving forward': the Gen-Z farmer growing Fukushima kiwisOkuma, Japan (AFP) June 1, 2025 A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the spring sunshine, bringing life back to a former no-go zone. ... more  
Keeping forests central in agroforestry policiesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 As governments and conservation groups promote tree planting to combat climate change, a new study from Yale School of the Environment scientists highlights another valuable strategy: forest-based a ... more 
Report: 'Future-proofing' crops will require urgent, consistent effortChampaign, IL (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes resear ... more  
Kymeta and Eutelsat OneWeb deploy dual-orbit SATCOM terminal to support defense networksParis, France (SPX) May 28, 2025 The new Goshawk u8 flat-panel terminal from Kymeta is now officially available on Eutelsat OneWeb's Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite network, enhancing multi-orbit connectivity options for global gov ... more |
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New research reveals wind jets fueling Thwaites Glacier's meltTokyo Japan (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology and the British Antarctic Survey has uncovered previously unknown low-level wind jets (LLJs) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarct ... more |
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As toll rises, Nigeria flood victims recall worst disaster in memoryMokwa, Nigeria (AFP) June 1, 2025 Adamu Yusuf was preparing to go to the Mokwa market Thursday morning when he heard his neighbour shouting: floodwaters were sweeping through the Nigerian town. ... more 
Hajj disasters: stampedes, infernos and a bloody siegeParis (AFP) June 2, 2025 It is Islam's holiest pilgrimage, but the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, which begins on Wednesday, has in recent decades been plagued by deadly disasters, from stampedes to militant attacks. ... more 
India landslide kills three soldiers after heavy rainsNew Delhi (AFP) June 2, 2025 Torrential rains in northeast India resulted in a deadly landslide that crushed and killed three soldiers with six more missing, the Indian army said Monday. ... more 
Ship with aid bound for Gaza sets sail to break blockadeWashington DC (UPI) Jun 1, 2025 A ship filled with aid bound for Gaza set sail Sunday, hoping to break Israel's blockade on the Palestinian enclave a month after another of its ships was damaged in an alleged Israeli drone strike in Maltese waters. ... more |
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