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  Wellington (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 A mystery illness is decimating the chicks of New Zealand's endangered yellow-eyed penguins, and scientists say they may have found the cause. The flightless birds, endemic to New Zealand, stand lower than knee-high, have pale yellow eyes and sport a band of yellow feathers around the head. There are about 2,400 of the adult birds left, according to estimates by New Zealand's Department of Conservation. Their status is considered "threatened - nationally endangered". It is the country's hig ... read more |
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Red Sea corals threatened by mystery sea urchin deathsEilat, Israel (AFP) Sept 24, 2023 The Red Sea's spectacular coral reefs face a new threat, marine biologists warn - the mass death of sea urchins that may be caused by a mystery disease. ... more 
Biden aims to wrest influence from China in Pacific islandsWashington (AFP) Sept 24, 2023 President Joe Biden is set to host leaders of Pacific island nations with an aim of countering China's ever-growing influence, proffering goodies ranging from an American football experience to shiny new embassies. ... more 
Biden aims to wrest influence from China in Pacific islandsWashington (AFP) Sept 24, 2023 President Joe Biden is set to host leaders of Pacific island nations with an aim of countering China's ever-growing influence, proffering goodies ranging from an American football experience to shiny new embassies. ... more 
Crowdfunding conservation: A Pacific island's plan to protect its watersUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 For a little under $150, you can now directly sponsor marine conservation across one square kilometer of the Pacific Ocean, through a novel scheme announced this week by the tiny island of Niue. ... more |
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 Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan resume Nile dam talks  
Arson turns Amazon reforestation project to ashesRio De Janeiro (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 It was supposed to be a good-news story out of the damaged Amazon rainforest: a project that replanted hundreds of thousands of trees in an illegally deforested nature reserve in Brazil. ... more |
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Solomon Islands leader 'appalled' by Japan on Fukushima waterUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 The leader of Solomon Islands, who has developed close ties with China, on Friday joined Beijing in denouncing Japan's release of wastewater from Fukushima's crippled nuclear plant. ... more  
Philippine smog prompts health warnings, school closuresManila (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 Thousands of people were warned to stay indoors and many schools were shut Friday as a thick haze blanketed the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces. ... more 
Outcry stops building in 'world's largest greenbelt' around TorontoOttawa (AFP) Sept 21, 2023 Canada's Ontario province on Thursday scrapped plans to build on protected lands that ring Toronto after a huge backlash that saw two ministers resign over windfall deals for developers. ... more 
Tuvalu will always be a state, even if underwater, says PMNew York (AFP) Sept 21, 2023 Tuvalu could be one of the first nations to sink beneath the sea as a result of climate change, but that doesn't mean its statehood is up for discussion, the tiny Pacific archipelago's prime minister said Thursday. ... more |
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  Charles proposes France-UK pact to combat climate 'emergency'  
Glyphosate: where is it banned or restricted?Paris (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 One of the world's most popular weedkillers, glyphosate, has divided the scientific and health community, prompting several countries either to ban or limit its use. ... more |
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US farmers, tech tycoons square off over plans for utopian cityDenverton, United States (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 A stealth campaign by Silicon Valley elites with a dream of turning a swath of California farmland into a new age city has ranchers who live here challenging their tactics and their motives. ... more  
Blockbuster movie scares Chinese tourists away from ThailandBangkok (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 For millions of Chinese tourists, Thailand used to be a happy land of water fights, lantern festivals and delicious food. ... more  
Venus on Earth: NASA's VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic IcelandPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 20, 2023 With its crushing atmospheric pressure, clouds of sulfuric acid, and searing surface temperature, Venus is an especially challenging place to study. But scientists know that observing its surface ca ... more  
Fears for ancient Cyrene after Libya floodsBenghazi, Libya (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 Floods that killed thousands in the Libyan city of Derna also inundated one of the country's premier ancient sites, threatening its UNESCO-listed monuments with collapse, a recent visitor and a leading archaeologist said. ... more |
 Brazil court rules for Indigenous land rights in key case 
King Charles's France trip closing with climate focusBordeaux (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 King Charles III on Friday puts the environment at the heart of the final day of his state visit to France, learning about climate-induced wildfires and visiting a sustainable vineyard in the heart of wine country. ... more |
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Libya flood disaster displaced over 43,000 people: IOMDerna, Libya (AFP) Sept 21, 2023 Libya's flood disaster, which killed thousands in the city of Derna, also displaced more than 43,000 people, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday. ... more  
Air pollution from fires hits world's poorest hardest: studyParis (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 People in poorer countries are disproportionately suffering from air pollution spewed from the increasing scourge of fires in forests and fields around the world, according to new research published Wednesday. ... more  
Guinea junta leader tells UN to 'stop lecturing' AfricaUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 21, 2023 The head of Guinea's junta Colonel Mamady Doumbouya defended the use of military intervention in politics during a UN address Thursday, following a recent series of coups on the African continent. ... more  
Bitcoin machines, rocket-launchers seized in Venezuela prisonMaracay, Venezuela (AFP) Sept 21, 2023 Venezuelan authorities on Thursday showed off dozens of Bitcoin mining machines and heavy weapons such as rocket launchers and grenades seized in a prison recaptured from gang control. ... more |
UN chief convenes 'no nonsense' climate summit, without China or USUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set Wednesday to host a climate meeting marred at its outset by the absence of speakers from the world's top two emitters, China and the United States. ... more  
Ex-Australia PM says Murdoch leaves legacy of divisionSydney (AFP) Sept 22, 2023 Former Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said Friday that retiring News Corp and Fox Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch had done "enormous damage" to the democratic world. ... more 
UK government's new climate policiesLondon (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced plans to ease certain climate policies aimed at reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050. ... more 
Vietnam holds think tank chief in latest green detentionHanoi (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 Vietnam has detained the director of an independent energy policy think tank, a rights group said Wednesday, the sixth person working on environmental issues taken into custody in the past two years. ... more |
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Spain livestock farmers raise alarm over rise in wolf attacksMadrid (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 Spanish livestock farmers on Wednesday raised the alarm over increasing wolf attacks on their herds, demanding the government reverse a 2021 ban on hunting this protected species. ... more 
Cities wiped out, or nearly, by disastersParis (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 The coastal city of Derna in Libya, devastated by a huge flash flood, joins a grim list of metropolises nearly annihilated by natural disasters since the turn of the century. ... more 
Libya flood survivors endure unbearable wait for missing relativesDerna, Libya (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 In Libya's flood-hit city of Derna, the Mediterranean Sea breeze mixes with the nauseating stench of human remains buried under the mud-caked rubble. ... more 
Morocco sets aside nearly $12 bn for quake recoveryRabat (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 Quake-hit Morocco's government announced on Wednesday a budget of more than $11 billion for reconstruction, rehousing and socio-economic development of areas hit by the deadly disaster. ... more |
 
China launches Yaogan 39 remote sensing satelliteBeijing (XNA) Sep 19, 2023 China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Sunday afternoon at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province to place several remote-sensing satellites into orbit, according to China ... more 
Communications cut to flood-hit Libya city after protestsDerna, Libya (AFP) Sept 19, 2023 Communications were severed Tuesday to the flood-hit Libyan city of Derna and journalists were asked to leave, a day after hundreds protested against authorities they blamed for the thousands of deaths. ... more  
Tornado in eastern China kills 10, hundreds relocatedBeijing (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 A tornado in eastern China killed 10 people and seriously injured several others, state media said Wednesday, the latest in a string of extreme weather events to strike the country. ... more 
'Worse than war': trauma of Libya flood haunts survivorsBenghazi, Libya (AFP) Sept 19, 2023 Grief etched into her face, 15-year-old Ibrar struggled to find the words to describe her pain at the loss of three friends in the huge flood that shattered her Libyan hometown. ... more |
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Marshes, mills and Michelin stars: Spain's 'chef of the sea'El Puerto De Santa Maria, Spain (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 As a child, Angel Leon spent hours fishing in the marshes of Cadiz in southwestern Spain - and today the chef draws inspiration from this terrain for his three-star Michelin restaurant. ... more 
Invasive species on the menu at London restaurantLondon (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 A London restaurant is exploring whether eating invasive species such as grey squirrel, American Signal crayfish and Japanese knotweed could help fight their spread, but scientists remain sceptical. ... more 
Australia gives up fight to eradicate bee-killing parasiteSydney (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 Australia on Wednesday abandoned its fight to eradicate the destructive Varroa mite, an invasive parasite responsible for the collapse of honeybee populations across the planet. ... more  
Climate targets should not bankrupt British people: UK ministerLondon (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 UK interior minister Suella Braverman said Wednesday that green policies should not mean "bankrupting" British citizens as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak appeared set to soften some of the government's net-zero pledges. ... more |
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