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Paris (AFP) Aug 16, 2025 - France's foreign ministry said Saturday that it was in talks with Mali over the arrest of a Frenchman accused of working with intelligence services to destabilise the country, calling the clai
Aug 16, 2025
Rescuers were struggling to retrieve bodies from debris after flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan killed at least 321 people in the past 48 hours, authorities said on Saturday.
Aug 16, 2025
Hurricane Erin gained strength Friday as it churned in the Atlantic Ocean and bore down on the Caribbean, where it could bring heavy rain to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Aug 16, 2025
Fisherman Alphonse Akadie was forced to exhume the bodies of his relatives last year from the village cemetery in Ivory Coast to avoid their remains being carried off into the ocean.
Aug 15, 2025
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - A new study using long-term satellite data has documented a climate-driven shift in Antarctic phytoplankton communities, with potential effects on the marine food chain and the Southern Ocean's carb
Aug 15, 2025
Baker Eid Ahmed just can't get away from Saudi Arabia's notorious heat: he makes bread next to a sweltering oven for 13 hours a day, only to step outside into summer temperatures that can soar past 45C.
Aug 15, 2025
Swedish authorities on Friday urged businesses and 1.5 million residents in greater Stockholm to cut back on tap water for the next few weeks as unusually warm freshwater temperatures have led to a supply issue.
Aug 15, 2025
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - China's scientists have reviewed two decades of green technology advances to answer a pressing question: how to raise output while cutting inputs and emissions. Their analysis of major food crops fr
Aug 15, 2025
Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge.
Aug 15, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - In a new paper in Nature, 21 scientists outline strategies to transform global food systems as a top priority to curb land degradation, mitigate climate change, and protect biodiversity. Their model
Aug 15, 2025
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan Earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin
Aug 15, 2025
Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - Cornell University research offers a number of alternatives to neonicotinoids (neonics) that might work for farmers who grow large-seeded vegetable crops such as snap bean, dry bean and sweet corn.
Aug 15, 2025
New Haven CT (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years. It is a sto
Aug 15, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - Iceberg calving, where massive ice blocks detach from glacier fronts and plunge into the ocean, is a major factor in Greenland's rapid ice loss. An international team led by the University of Zurich
Aug 15, 2025
When Murat Draman went scuba diving off the coast of the southern Turkish province of Antalya and saw the temperature in the depths was pushing 30C, it didn't surprise him.
Aug 15, 2025
Torrential rains sparked intense floods and damaged hundreds of homes in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum, emergency authorities and a local resident told AFP on Friday.
Aug 15, 2025
