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Moscow (AFP) July 30, 2025 - A volcano in Russia's far east erupted on Wednesday, Russian scientists said, hours after a major quake prompted evacuations and tsunami alerts across parts of the Pacific coast.
Jul 30, 2025
Paris (AFP) July 30, 2025 - A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study revealed on Wednesday.
Jul 30, 2025
Paris (AFP) July 30, 2025 - The Gaza Strip, largely deprived of electricity by Israel since the start of the war, appears seven times less bright at night than before October 7, 2023, according to AFP analysis of NASA satellite data.
Jul 30, 2025
Lima (AFP) July 30, 2025 - Peru on Wednesday closed 65 of its 121 Pacific ports as a tsunami alert was issued following a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake off the east coast of Russia.
Jul 30, 2025
Paris (AFP) July 30, 2025 - The amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by European forests has reduced dramatically in recent years putting the EU's climate targets at risk, researchers said Wednesday, calling for urgent action to halt the decline.
Jul 30, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) July 30, 2025 - Japan sweltered in a new record temperature of 41.2C on Wednesday, with the mercury also hitting 40C in the ancient capital of Kyoto for the first time since observations began.
Jul 30, 2025
Tokyo (AFP) July 30, 2025 - Tsunami alerts were issued across much of the Pacific on Wednesday after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Russia's far east.
Jul 30, 2025
Jerusalem (AFP) July 30, 2025 - The United Arab Emirates has begun construction on a major pipeline to carry desalinated water from Egypt to southern Gaza, according to multiple sources.
Jul 30, 2025
Belgrade (AFP) July 30, 2025 - As blistering summer heat sweeps across the Balkans, poorly managed and illegal dumpsites are bursting into flames, sparking wildfires and smothering towns and cities with toxic smoke.
Jul 30, 2025
Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2025 - China's military accused Taiwan on Wednesday of forcing its people to become cannon fodder as it raged against recent drills by the island's armed forces.
Jul 30, 2025
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 - Esri has partnered with Microsoft and Space42 to launch the Map Africa Initiative, a five-year project aimed at building the most detailed and scalable geospatial basemap of Africa to date. The effo
Jul 30, 2025
Ventspils, Latvia (AFP) July 30, 2025 - Fishers do not usually wish for a perfect storm. But Latvian boating communities are hoping for exactly that: a rare tempest that might, one day, revive waning stocks of Baltic cod.
Jul 30, 2025
Shanghai (AFP) July 30, 2025 - Shanghai had evacuated almost 283,000 people from vulnerable coastal and low-lying areas as Typhoon Co-May made landfall in the Chinese financial hub on Wednesday evening, bringing lashing rains and winds.
Jul 30, 2025
Toronto, Canada (AFP) July 30, 2025 - The spur to build Toronto's billion-dollar-plus flood prevention project dates back to a devastating hurricane in 1954, but planners say its urgency was reinforced by the recent tragic flooding in Texas.
Jul 30, 2025
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) July 29, 2025 - The Los Angeles wildfires drove insured natural disaster losses in the first half of the year to their highest level since Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011, German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Tuesday.
Jul 29, 2025
Paris (AFP) July 29, 2025 - French health experts and patient associations on Tuesday urged authorities to protect the public from a bee-killing pesticide, saying the chemical could also harm children and adults.
Jul 29, 2025
