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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 - Around 100 trillion insects are estimated to be flying above the contiguous United States on a typical summer day, according to a new analysis that uses weather radar networks to quantify aerial ins
Dec 18, 2025
London, UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 - New research reconstructs how warming ocean waters triggered a major retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) over the past 20,000 years, providing context for its current instability.
Dec 18, 2025
Bokurdak, Turkmenistan (AFP) Dec 18, 2025 - Residents in the remote Turkmen village of Bokurdak have long depended on the Karakum Desert for their livelihoods, cultivating every square metre they can in a constant battle with nature.
Dec 18, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Dec 18, 2025 - Taiwanese seafood trader Jay Yen used to import 2,000 tonnes of shrimp a year from Honduras before the Central American country cut diplomatic ties with the democratic island in 2023.
Dec 18, 2025
Taipei (AFP) Dec 18, 2025 - The United States approved $11 billion-worth of arms to Taiwan, Taipei said Thursday, announcing one of the largest weapons packages for the island and prompting an angry backlash from China.
Dec 18, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 - Wildfires on Alaska's North Slope have been more active in the last century than at any point in the previous 3,000 years, according to a study published in the journal Biogeosciences. The research
Dec 18, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 - Researchers from Hebei University of Technology and Tsinghua University have developed a zwitterionic hydrogel evaporator that maintains high solar desalination performance while resisting salt crys
Dec 18, 2025
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 18, 2025 - A study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology has identified how SAR11, one of the ocean's most abundant bacterial groups, diversifies into dis
Dec 18, 2025
Cotonou, Benin (AFP) Dec 18, 2025 - Benin President Patrice Talon said Thursday that the bulk of the army did not back a recent foiled coup bid whose leaders recruited young trainee soldiers.
Dec 18, 2025
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 - The Trump administration intends to dismantle one of the world's leading climate research institutions over what it said on Tuesday were concerns of climate alarmism, despite opposition to the plan.
Dec 17, 2025
Paris, France (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 - Global coal consumption is expected to hit a record in 2025, the IEA said Wednesday, thanks in part to policy measures introduced by the Trump administration to boost the industry.
Dec 17, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 - New analysis of four decades of tropical cyclone records indicates that ocean regions capable of sustaining the most intense hurricanes and typhoons are expanding in the western Pacific and North At
Dec 17, 2025
Quito (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 - The United States announced Wednesday a temporary deployment of Air Force personnel to Ecuador to combat drug trafficking in one of Latin America's biggest narcotics smuggling hubs.
Dec 17, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 - Paleontologists working in a cave on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola have documented the first known example of fossil bee nests constructed inside pre-existing fossil cavities in mammal and othe
Dec 17, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2025 - A weak La Nina has re-established itself in the equatorial Pacific Ocean after a pause of several months, with below-average sea surface temperatures observed since September 2025 and persisting int
Dec 17, 2025
Madrid (AFP) Dec 17, 2025 - Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced Wednesday that Spain would set up a national network of climate shelters to help people survive increasingly severe heatwaves.
Dec 17, 2025
