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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2024 - With a global population of eight billion, humanity's current use of Earth's resources poses significant sustainability challenges. Klaus Hubacek, a Professor of Science, Technology and Society at t
Nov 14, 2024
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - Spain's traumatised Valencia region emerged unscathed from an urgent rain alert on Thursday, two weeks after the country's deadliest floods in decades killed more than 200 people there.
Nov 14, 2024
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2024 - A recent doctoral thesis at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) and Umea University sheds light on how the interaction between comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and the solar wind evolves as
Nov 14, 2024
Baku (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - Host Azerbaijan tried to bring down the diplomatic temperature in Baku on Thursday after a French minister cancelled her trip to the UN climate talks and Argentina withdrew its delegation.
Nov 14, 2024
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - The EU said Thursday that unacceptable attacks by Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev on the bloc, France and the Netherlands risked undermining the COP29 climate conference being held in Baku.
Nov 14, 2024
Lagos (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - Nigeria has secured a 134-million-dollar (127-million-euro) loan to invest in farming, the government said Thursday, as Africa's most populous nation faces a hunger crisis of staggering proportions.
Nov 14, 2024
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - India's capital New Delhi ordered all primary schools to cease in-person classes until further notice on Thursday night due to worsening smog in the sprawling megacity.
Nov 14, 2024
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - The European Parliament on Thursday approved a one-year delay on implementing the bloc's sweeping anti-deforestation rules but also voted to loosen some requirements - raising fresh uncertainty over the landmark law.
Nov 14, 2024
London, UK (SPX) Nov 14, 2024 - A unique fossil bird discovery is reshaping what scientists understand about the evolution of modern avian brains and intelligence - a topic that has puzzled researchers for decades. The fossi
Nov 14, 2024
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 14, 2024 - Crisis-ridden Lebanon has suffered physical damage and economic losses estimated at $8.5 billion during more than a year of Hezbollah-Israel clashes-turned-into-war, with the housing sector the hardest hit, the World Bank said Thursday.
Nov 14, 2024
Taipei (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - Taiwan will keep strengthening its military capabilities, a senior security official said, in an apparent signal to US President-elect Donald Trump that the island is serious about shoring up its own defences.
Nov 14, 2024
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 14, 2024 - China launched a new satellite designed to detect ocean salinity on Thursday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi Province, northern China, as reported by the China National Space Admi
Nov 14, 2024
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - A Brazilian court on Thursday cleared mining giants BHP and Vale, and their Brazilian joint venture Samarco, of responsibility over a 2015 dam collapse that caused the country's worst ever environmental disaster.
Nov 14, 2024
Manila (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - The Philippines raised its highest storm alert and evacuated thousands of people on Thursday, as Super Typhoon Usagi barrelled towards its already disaster-ravaged north.
Nov 14, 2024
Beijing (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 - China's economic malaise is fuelling social tensions that make people more likely to commit violent crimes out of anger or desperation, analysts say, after the country witnessed its deadliest massacre in a decade.
Nov 14, 2024
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 14, 2024 - The United States on Thursday announced entry bans against more than 350 members the Nicaraguan National Police, as the Biden administration continues to clamp down on the oppressive conduct of the Central American nation's President Daniel Ortega.
Nov 14, 2024
