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  Bangkok (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 Allowing global temperatures to rise two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels will be catastrophic for the world's ice sheets, glaciers, polar seas and permafrost, a new report warned Thursday. The assessment of the global "cryosphere" - parts of the Earth covered in ice and snow for at least some of the year - urges upcoming climate talks to commit to keeping warming below 1.5C. "Because of what we have learned about the cryosphere since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, 1.5C is ... read more |
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Good neighbors: Bonobo study offers clues into early human alliancesWashington (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 Human society is founded on our ability to cooperate with others beyond our immediate family and social groups. ... more  
Jordan nixes power for water deal with Israel over Gaza warAmman (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 Jordan announced Thursday that it was dropping a planned deal with Israel to exchange solar energy for desalinated water, saying the Gaza war had made it unthinkable. ... more 
Over half of seabirds in UK and Ireland 'in decline': surveyLondon (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 Almost half of the breeding seabird species in the UK and Ireland have declined in the past 20 years, with climate change one of the possible causes, according to a new survey released on Thursday. ... more  
EU agrees to extend list of environmental crimesBrussels (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 The European Parliament and EU member countries on Thursday agreed legislation that would extend the list of environmental offences that constitute crimes, and to harmonise penalties across the bloc. ... more |
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  French oyster farmers race to recover from storm 
Brussels extends use of controversial herbicideBrussels (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 The European Commission said Thursday it will allow the use of the controversial herbicide glyphosate for another 10 years, breaking a stalemate between EU states divided over its safety. ... more |
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How much damage could possible Iceland volcano eruption cause?Paris (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 A town has been evacuated in southwestern Iceland after hundreds of earthquakes caused by shifting underground magma sparked fears of a full-blown volcanic eruption. ... more 
Flash floods kill 100 in Horn of Africa: charityNairobi (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 More than 100 people, including 16 children, have died and over 700,000 been forced out of their homes in the Horn of Africa due to flash flooding, the British charity Save the Children said Thursday. ... more  
US concerned over hospital strikes after Jordan's Gaza facility hitWashington (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 Washington said Thursday it was "deeply concerned" about a strike on a Jordanian military hospital in Gaza that wounded seven people, underscoring its opposition to air strikes on health facilities. ... more  
UN expert accuses Vietnam of targeting human rights defendersHanoi (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 An independent UN expert on Wednesday accused Vietnam of targeting human rights defenders, after a spate of high-profile arrests and convictions. ... more |
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  Tibet activists and pro-China supporters demonstrate at APEC summit 
China says resettling people fleeing northern Myanmar clashesBeijing (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 China said on Thursday it was helping resettle people who have crossed its border fleeing clashes in northern Myanmar, where the UN says over 200,000 people have been displaced by fighting between the junta and an alliance of ethnic minority groups. ... more |
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Iraq Supreme Court says dismissed powerful parliament speakerBaghdad (AFP) Nov 14, 2023 Iraq's top court said on Tuesday it was dismissing parliament speaker Mohamed al-Halbussi, an influential Sunni Muslim politician, prompting three ministers to submit their resignations. ... more  
US removes Chinese lab from sanctions in fentanyl crackdown dealWashington (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 The United States on Thursday removed a Chinese research institute from its sanctions list, following a deal between the two countries to crack down on fentanyl trafficking. ... more 
US sees wins in China summit but tumultuous year loomsSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 US President Joe Biden scored key wins in a long-awaited summit with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping but the stability could be short-lived with a potentially tumultuous year ahead that includes Taiwanese and US elections. ... more 
Maldives to inaugurate new China-leaning leaderMale, Maldives (AFP) Nov 17, 2023 The Maldives is set to inaugurate on Friday a president who has vowed to cultivate "strong ties" with China and to expel Indian troops deployed in the strategically placed Indian Ocean archipelago. ... more |
  Rice researcher scans tropical forest with mixed-reality device  
'Planet Earth is big enough': Biden, Xi vow to ease tensionsWoodside, United States (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping shook hands and pledged to reduce soaring tensions between the superpowers Wednesday as they met for the first time in a year at a high-stakes summit in California. ... more |
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Threat from sand and dust storms spreading: UNTashkent (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 The UN warned Wednesday that the number of sand and dust storms are increasing "dramatically" with Central Asia the most hit by the dangerous phenomenon. ... more 
Heat projected to kill nearly five times more people by 2050Paris (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 Nearly five times more people will likely die due to extreme heat in the coming decades, an international team of experts said Wednesday, warning that without action on climate change the "health of humanity is at grave risk". ... more  
Greenhouse gases hit record high in 2022: UNGeneva (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere hit new record highs in 2022, with no end in sight to the rising trend, the United Nations warned Wednesday. ... more  
NASA C-130 makes first-ever flight to Antarctica for GUSTO balloon missionWallops VA (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 On Oct. 28, 2023, NASA's C-130 Hercules and crew safely touched down at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, after an around-the-globe journey to deliver the agency's Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscop ... more |
 
Israel army withdraws from inside Gaza hospital, journalist tells AFPJerusalem (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 A journalist trapped inside Gaza's largest hospital told AFP on Wednesday that Israeli troops had withdrawn from the building after entering it overnight and have redeployed around its outskirts. ... more 
PepsiCo sued by New York state over plastic pollutionNew York (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 New York state sued PepsiCo on Wednesday, pointing to the soda giant's plastic waste as a scourge of waterways and blasting the company's "misleading" statements on the environment. ... more 
Frozen library of ancient ice tells tales of climate's pastCopenhagen (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 How was the air breathed by Caesar, the Prophet Mohammed or Christopher Columbus? A giant freezer in Copenhagen holds the answers, storing blocks of ice with atmospheric tales thousands of years old. ... more  
Uganda charges militia chief over tourist murdersKampala (AFP) Nov 13, 2023 Ugandan prosecutors on Monday charged the commander of a feared militia with terrorism and murder over the killing of two foreign tourists and their driver last month. ... more |
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Six killed in east DR Congo after soldiers, pro-state militants clashGoma, Dr Congo (AFP) Nov 12, 2023 At least six people have been killed after a dispute between soldiers and pro-government militants in volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, several sources said on Sunday. ... more 
UN fears escalation of interethnic violence in SudanUnited Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 14, 2023 The UN on Tuesday decried an escalation of interethnic violence in Sudan, saying it had credible information indicating targeted killings against the Masalit ethnic group. ... more 
U.N.: Israel allows fuel shipment into Gaza, but nothing for hospitalsWashington DC (UPI) Nov 15, 2021 Gaza received its first shipment of fuel Wednesday since the start of the Israel-Hamas war more than five weeks ago, the United Nations relief agency for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday. ... more 
From biodiversity to political crises: five things about MadagascarAntananarivo (AFP) Nov 13, 2023 Madagascar will hold the first round of its presidential elections on Thursday, with the run-up to the vote marred by near daily opposition demonstrations. ... more |
 
'Out of control' fires endanger wildlife in Brazilian wetlandsPocon�, Brazil (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 The Pantanal wetlands in western Brazil are famed as a paradise of biodiversity, but these days they have enormous clouds of smoke billowing over them, as raging wildfires reduce vast expanses to scorched earth. ... more 
Endangered sea turtles get second life at Tunisian centreSfax, Tunisia (AFP) Nov 13, 2023 A crowd has gathered to see off Rose, a loggerhead sea turtle, who labours across the Tunisian sand to rejoin the waters of the Mediterranean. ... more 
Two dead, three missing in central Vietnam floodsHanoi (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 Two people have died and three are still missing after days of heavy rain flooded streets and thousands of homes in central Vietnam, disaster management authorities said Thursday. ... more 
26 dead, dozens hospitalised in China building fire: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 Twenty-six people have died and dozens were sent to hospital after a fire tore through a building in northern China's Shanxi province on Thursday, state media reported. ... more |
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'King of Lake Ohrid': the fight to save a Balkan troutPogradec, Albania (AFP) Nov 16, 2023 Along the picturesque shores of Lake Ohrid, things have taken on a frantic pace at the Lin Hatchery in Albania's Pogradec, as a team of specialists races to release the final batch of newly spawned trout this season. ... more  
The mystery of phosphite - a scientific detective storyKonstanz, Germany (SPX) Nov 13, 2023 Our story begins at the end of the 1980s, with a sheet of paper. On this sheet, a scientist calculated that the conversion of the chemical compound phosphite to phosphate would release enough energy ... more 
Scientists caution against a reliance on mechanical devices to clear water bodies of plasticPlymouth UK (SPX) Nov 10, 2023 An international group of scientists has cautioned against reliance on mechanical cleanup devices as a means of addressing the plastic pollution crisis. The researchers - comprising a number o ... more 
Some of today's earthquakes may be aftershocks from quakes in the 1800sWashington DC (SPX) Nov 14, 2023 In the 1800s, some of the strongest earthquakes in recorded U.S. history struck North America's continental interior. Almost two centuries later, the central and eastern United States may still be e ... more |
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