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Quito (AFP) Sept 26, 2024 - Ecuador's capital Quito, already reeling from a spate of horrific gang violence, is now fighting fires with limited water amid the country's worst drought in six decades.
Jun 26, 2026
Beijing (AFP) Sept 19, 2017 - Surrounded by the sleek hi-tech campuses and luxury condominiums of Beijing's Silicon Valley, migrants from the countryside recreate village life, cooking in outdoor communal areas, playing cards and showering in the street.
Jun 26, 2026
Kayunga, Uganda (AFP) Sept 8, 2022 - As fertiliser prices shot up following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Ugandan villager Peter Wakisi fretted for the future of his small farm and his young family.
Jun 26, 2026
London (AFP) Sept 11, 2022 - Britain's new King Charles III is a committed environmentalist with a long history of campaigning for better conservation, organic farming and tackling climate change, which is likely to sit well with more eco-conscious younger Britons.
Jun 26, 2026
Tetiaroa, France (AFP) Sept 20, 2017 - An exotic island paradise in French Polynesia bought by Marlon Brando in the sixties is using its Hollywood image to tackle environmental issues - with a little help from its jet-set visitors.
Jun 26, 2026
Derna, Libya (AFP) Sept 18, 2023 - It was long past midnight when Abdel Moneim Awad al-Sheikh awoke to desperate screams from outside his home in the Libyan city of Derna, only to find his building engulfed by surging flood waters.
Jun 26, 2026
Mount Paektu, North Korea (AFP) Sept 19, 2019 - North Korea has carried out six nuclear tests, but by far the greatest explosion ever seen on the peninsula took place more than 1,000 years ago and created the stark, serene beauty of Mount Paektu.
Jun 26, 2026
Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jeul 02, 2015 - Failing to find a mating partner is a dent to the reproductive prospects of any animal, but in the flatworm species Macrostomum hystrix it might involve a real headache. Zoologists from the Universi
Jun 26, 2026
Hyeres , France (AFP) Sept 10, 2021 - To save one of the last wetlands on the French Riviera from rising sea levels, conservationists have taken the unusual step of removing its protective seawalls.
Jun 26, 2026
Beijing (AFP) Sept 1, 2022 - The United Nations on Wednesday released a landmark report detailing serious human rights abuses by China against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang.
Jun 26, 2026
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 29, 2014 - Protesters armed with little more than parasols and determination have brought central Hong Kong to a standstill with their demands for full democracy, in a movement that has been dubbed the umbrella revolution.
Jun 26, 2026
Washington - Feb. 22, 2001 - New findings provide evidence that Earth's most severe mass extinction -- an event 250 million years ago that wiped out 90 percent of the life on Earth -- was triggered by a collision with a comet or asteroid.
Jun 26, 2026
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 9, 2018 - A supply ship towing a long floating boom designed to corral ocean plastic has set sail from San Francisco for a test run ahead of a trip to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Jun 26, 2026
Male (AFP) Sept 13, 2009 - The Maldives, which faces the gloomy prospect of drowning this century due to rising sea levels, is now confronted with a more immediate challenge of saving a sinking economy.
Jun 26, 2026
Toronto (AFP) Sept 11, 2011 - Elected president of the Maldives after spending 20 years leading a pro-democracy movement against a cruel dictatorship, Mohammed Nasheed believes it will have all been for naught if his nation of 1,200 islands is swallowed up by the ocean.
Jun 26, 2026
Stanford - Jan. 25, 2001 - Around 90 per cent of the Mesopotamian marshlands, known since time immemorial as the fertile crescent, have been lost mainly as a result of drainage and damming.
Jun 26, 2026
