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Barcelona (AFP) June 2, 2025 - Mainland Spain experienced its hottest May day ever on Friday, with the average temperature surpassing 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit), national weather agency AEMET said on Monday.
Jun 2, 2025
Tokyo Japan (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology and the British Antarctic Survey has uncovered previously unknown low-level wind jets (LLJs) in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarct
Jun 2, 2025
Brest, France (AFP) June 2, 2025 - A global target of having 30 percent of the oceans become protected areas by 2030 is looking more fragile than ever, with little progress and the United States backing away, conservationists say.
Jun 2, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 2, 2025 - Nations will be under pressure to deliver more than just rhetoric at a UN oceans summit in France next week, including much-needed funds to better protect the world's overexploited and polluted seas.
Jun 2, 2025
Champaign, IL (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes resear
Jun 2, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 2, 2025 - Oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the warming caused by burning fossil fuels and shielded societies from the full impact of greenhouse gas emissions.
Jun 2, 2025
Riverside CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 - Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total ef
Jun 2, 2025
Rome (AFP) June 2, 2025 - A huge plume of ash, gas and rock spewed forth on Monday from Italy's Mount Etna as authorities warned people to steer clear of Europe's largest active volcano.
Jun 2, 2025
New Delhi (AFP) June 2, 2025 - Torrential rains in northeast India resulted in a deadly landslide that crushed and killed three soldiers with six more missing, the Indian army said Monday.
Jun 2, 2025
Yangon (AFP) June 1, 2025 - Myanmar's junta has extended a post-earthquake truce, after the expiry of a previous humanitarian ceasefire it was accused of flouting with a continued campaign of air strikes.
Jun 1, 2025
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP) June 1, 2025 - Human Rights Watch said Sunday that migrant workers in the Gulf were at risk from extreme heat, urging countries to extend protections for labourers exposed to soaring temperatures.
Jun 1, 2025
Iitate, Japan (AFP) June 1, 2025 - To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swathes of land.
Jun 1, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 1, 2025 - A ship filled with aid bound for Gaza set sail Sunday, hoping to break Israel's blockade on the Palestinian enclave a month after another of its ships was damaged in an alleged Israeli drone strike in Maltese waters.
Jun 1, 2025
Pattaya, Thailand (AFP) June 1, 2025 - When Wang Zengyi, 41, and Song Jihan, 29, first met at a friend's dinner party in China, it was love at first sight.
Jun 1, 2025
Mokwa, Nigeria (AFP) June 1, 2025 - Adamu Yusuf was preparing to go to the Mokwa market Thursday morning when he heard his neighbour shouting: floodwaters were sweeping through the Nigerian town.
Jun 1, 2025
Okuma, Japan (AFP) June 1, 2025 - A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the spring sunshine, bringing life back to a former no-go zone.
Jun 1, 2025
