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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 - A University of Michigan team has analyzed how people living and working around the Agbogbloshie e waste site in Accra, Ghana, depend on informal recycling to earn a living while facing severe toxic
Dec 5, 2025
Rome (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - The Mediterranean's first sanctuary for dolphins that have lived in captivity will open off Italy next year, as demand for re-homing rises with the closure of marine parks across Europe.
Dec 5, 2025
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - A flagship study that declared the weedkiller Roundup posed no serious health risks has been retracted with little fanfare, ending a 25-year saga that exposed how corporate interests can distort scientific research and influence government decision-making.
Dec 5, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 - Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials report that deep sea manganese nodules could supply large volumes of copper, nickel and cobalt for the energy transition if mining a
Dec 5, 2025
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 - University of Pittsburgh researchers and collaborators have identified how to design catalysts that generate ozone on demand as a potential alternative to chlorine-based disinfection in hospitals an
Dec 5, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said Friday, with some populations dropping by 95 percent in just eight years.
Dec 5, 2025
Lubumbashi, Dr Congo (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - Carrying her sore-pocked daughter across her decaying field, Helene Mvubu says she is one of thousands to have fallen victim to the toxic waste defiling the Democratic Republic of Congo's mining capital.
Dec 5, 2025
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 - A small Cretaceous bird fossil from northeastern China preserves more than 800 tiny stones jammed in its throat, giving researchers rare evidence that this individual likely died by choking. The ani
Dec 5, 2025
Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - A strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean killed four people on Thursday, the US military said, amid a growing controversy over a campaign that has taken more than 87 lives.
Dec 5, 2025
Athens (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - Schools in Athens were shut on Friday as a storm front lashed the Greek capital and other parts of the country, flooding roads and disrupting transport.
Dec 5, 2025
Saint-Denis, France (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - With US President Donald Trump and other sceptics calling climate change a hoax, the UN's climate science body must tell the world in a very clear way that humans are heating the planet, its chairman told AFP.
Dec 5, 2025
Doha (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - The Colombian government and the country's largest drug-trafficking gang inked an agreement in Qatar on Friday committing to further talks aimed at the paramilitary group's eventual disarmament and peace in territories under its control.
Dec 5, 2025
Addis Ababa (AFP) Dec 5, 2025 - Tewolde has fought multiple times for Eritrea, one of the most closed societies on Earth, and is now praying another war is not about to break out with neighbouring Ethiopia.
Dec 5, 2025
Sibolga, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - Under a scorching sun, Nur Apsyah waited in line with hundreds of others, hoping to secure some of the food aid in short supply in Indonesia's flood-hit Sumatra.
Dec 4, 2025
Bissau (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - Guinea-Bissau's military authorities on Thursday justified taking power in the small west African nation by arguing the country faced the risk of ethnic civil war after last month's elections.
Dec 4, 2025
Kandy, Sri Lanka (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - Electrician V. K. Muthukrishnan ran to help when a lightning-fast mudslide flattened his neighbour's home in rural Sri Lanka - only to see his own house swept away minutes later.
Dec 4, 2025
