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Paris (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Arctic peatlands are expanding as the climate warms, new research showed Thursday, a change that could slow global heating in the near term but have the opposite effect in future.
Jun 19, 2025
Cullinan, South Africa (AFP) June 19, 2025 - On his farm two hours north of Johannesburg, Nico Thuynsma gestured towards thousands of orange, yellow and pink proteas in flower and thriving 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) from their natural home at the southern tip of Africa.
Jun 19, 2025
Puerto Escondido, Mexico (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Hurricane Erick strengthened to an extremely dangerous Category 4 early Thursday as it barreled toward Mexico's Pacific coast, the US National Hurricane Center said, warning of potentially deadly floods.
Jun 19, 2025
Mexico City (AFP) June 19, 2025 - In the scant seven years from 2017, when Despacito was a reggaeton smash hit, the average temperature in continental Mexico rose nearly 0.5 degrees Celsius (0.8 Fahrenheit).
Jun 19, 2025
Hong Kong (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Governments around the world are attempting to evacuate thousands of their nationals caught up in the rapidly spiralling Israel-Iran conflict, organising buses and planes and in some cases assisting people crossing borders on foot.
Jun 19, 2025
Geneva (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Short, intense summer rainfall in Alpine regions is likely to become more frequent and severe in the future because of global warming, according to a study released Thursday by the University of Lausanne (UNIL).
Jun 19, 2025
Puerto Escondido, Mexico (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Southern Mexico started the cleanup process Thursday in the aftermath of Hurricane Erick, which slammed into its Pacific coast as a powerful Category 3 storm but weakened as it moved inland.
Jun 19, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2025 - NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.
Jun 19, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed Snowball Earth.
Jun 19, 2025
Wellington (AFP) June 19, 2025 - New Zealand's government halted aid to close partner the Cook Islands on Thursday because of a row over agreements the Pacific island nation struck with China.
Jun 19, 2025
Geneva (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Israel accused the World Health Organization of a deafening selective silence after a hospital in southern Israel was hit in an Iranian missile strike on Thursday.
Jun 19, 2025
Taipei (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Taiwan is vetting hundreds of thousands of military service members, public school teachers and civil servants in a bid to root out potential homegrown Chinese sympathisers, as Beijing intensifies espionage on the island.
Jun 19, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2025 - Israelis lack sleep and experience high anxiety amid the wars with Hamas and Iran as the two Middle East nations exchange deadly aerial blows.
Jun 19, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 19, 2025 - As Paris braces for a heatwave this weekend, a little-known network of underground pipes will be cooling the Louvre museum and other storied landmarks using water from the River Seine.
Jun 19, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 19, 2025 - With the rise of a paramilitary force that analysts say is controlled by the Kremlin, Russia is openly expanding its state military footprint in Africa, after years of distancing itself from mercenaries deployed on the continent to support pro-Russian rulers.
Jun 19, 2025
Taipei (AFP) June 19, 2025 - Taiwan said Thursday a British Navy patrol vessel sailed through the Taiwan Strait, a move that challenges China's claim to the sensitive waterway.
Jun 19, 2025
