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  Paris (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 Water scarcity could affect three billion more people than previously expected by mid-century, with increased pollution rendering river sources "unsafe" for humans and wildlife, researchers warned Tuesday. The UN's climate science panel has said that around half the world's population currently faces severe water scarcity for at least a month a year and warned that global warming impacts and rising demand are key risks to global supply. But new research by scientists in Germany and the Netherlan ... read more |
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EU chief bows to protesting farmers on pesticide useStrasbourg, France (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday recommended the bloc bury a plan to cut pesticide use in agriculture as a concession to protesting European farmers. ... more  
In Chile, natural disasters fall on all-volunteer fire serviceVina Del Mar, Chile (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 From earthquakes to tsunamis and massive fires, Chile is prone to natural disasters - but the firefighters called up to tackle them are all volunteers with day jobs, like architect Jorge Pena or insurance salesman Cristian Lobos. ... more  
In Antarctica, scientists study extent of microplasticsGerlache Strait, Antarctica (AFP) Feb 7, 2024 In remote Antarctica, Colombian marine biologist Paulo Tigreros dips a net into the icy waters in his hunt for microplastics in what should be one of the best-preserved ecosystems in the world. ... more  
Landslide at Philippine gold-mining village kills sevenManila (AFP) Feb 7, 2024 At least seven people were killed and 31 injured when a rain-induced landslide hit a gold-mining village in a mountainous region of the southern Philippines, officials said Wednesday. ... more |
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 UN, rights groups urge more Syria aid a year after deadly quake  
El Nino brings hunger, drought fears to MadagascarManindra, Madagascar (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 In a small village in southern Madagascar, dozens of women shelter from the scorching sun under a tree as they wait to weigh their children. ... more |
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'Feels like yesterday': Turkey grieves on first quake anniversaryAntakya, Turkey (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 Ravaged by grief, bearing torches and holding up portraits of their lost families, thousands of earthquake survivors gathered on Tuesday for the first anniversary of Turkey's worst disaster of modern times. ... more 
EU unveils 2040 climate targets in political tightrope actBrussels (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 The EU on Tuesday unveils its climate targets for 2040 and a roadmap for the next stage of its energy transition, four months before European elections and with the bloc reeling from a farmer revolt against green reforms. ... more  
AI reads ancient scroll buried by Vesuvius eruptionWashington (AFP) Feb 5, 2024 Three researchers on Monday won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. ... more  
Contaminated soil landslide threatens Danish villageRanders, Denmark (AFP) Feb 7, 2024 A small hamlet in the west of Denmark is facing an unusual existential threat: a landslide of contaminated waste that is bearing down on the community and a nearby river. ... more |
  India's tigers climb high as climate, human pressure rises 
Oil slicks blamed on Turkish strikes blight northeast Syria riverTal Brak, Syria (AFP) Feb 7, 2024 Farmer Nizar al-Awwad has stopped irrigating his land in northeast Syria from a local river polluted by an oil spill that residents and officials in the Kurdish-held area blame on Turkish strikes. ... more |
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Australia expresses 'outrage' to China over writer's suspended death sentenceSydney (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 Australia said Tuesday it had expressed "outrage" to China over a suspended death sentence handed to Chinese-Australian dissident writer Yang Jun. ... more 
Chile ex-president Pinera dies in helicopter crash, aged 74Santiago (AFP) Feb 7, 2024 Chile's former president Sebastian Pinera, a billionaire tycoon who twice held the South American nation's top job, died Tuesday in a helicopter crash, his office said in a statement. ... more 
Nobody dying from hunger in Ethiopia, says PMAddis Ababa (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday denied that people were dying of hunger in the Horn of Africa nation, which is grappling with a major food crisis caused by internal conflict and climate disasters. ... more 
India's 'lake man' cleans up critical water suppliesBengaluru, India (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 Ancient lake systems once provided Bengaluru with critical water supplies, but the Indian tech hub's breakneck expansion left many waterways covered over or used as dumps. ... more |
 
Exiled Hong Kong activist Ted Hui handed bankruptcy orderHong Kong (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 A Hong Kong court on Tuesday issued a bankruptcy order against Ted Hui, an exiled prominent pro-democracy activist and ex-legislator who is accused of breaching the city's national security law. ... more  
Direct detection of amino acids and hydrocarbons in meteoritesMunster, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2024 The recent study conducted by Dr. Christian Vollmer and his team, in collaboration with British colleagues, marks a significant advancement in the field of astrobiology and planetary science. By exa ... more 
Integrated design of Global Ocean Observing System essential to monitor climate changeBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 05, 2024 We know that our climate is changing. Extreme weather events are becoming more common, sea levels are rising and overall, our planet is getting warmer. Monitoring these changes is critical. One of t ... more 
'It was hell': Survivor recounts rush of flames in Chile wildfireEl Olivar, Chile (AFP) Feb 4, 2024 Rodrigo Pulgar was at home listening to news of the wildfires devastating parts of Chile when flames suddenly began rushing over his community. ... more |
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Deadly California storm brings unrelenting rain, floodingLos Angeles (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 A powerful storm lashing California on Monday has left at least three people dead and caused devastating mudslides and flooding, after dumping months' worth of rain in a single day. ... more  
'Historic' snowfall buries Canada's Atlantic coastMontreal (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 Residents along Canada's Atlantic coast on Monday were digging out from a "historic" snowfall that paralyzed parts of the province of Nova Scotia over the weekend, triggering a state of emergency. ... more 
What to know about Chile's voracious wildfiresVina Del Mar, Chile (AFP) Feb 5, 2024 Coming in the middle of a fierce heatwave, Chile's forest fires engulfed communities with a destructive speed that has stunned the nation. ... more 
Canada ice fishing season gets off to late start due to warm weatherSainte-Anne-De-La-Perade, Canada (AFP) Feb 6, 2024 On a frozen river in Canada, a cluster of brightly coloured cabins stand out against the white snow as vehicles crawl to and fro. ... more |
Tractor army gathers at the gates of Rome as EU confronts a farming minefield
Rome (AFP) Feb 5, 2024Dozens of Italian farmers with tractors started gathering Monday on the edge of Rome vowing a major demonstration to pressure the government to improve their working conditions. Shark bites and deaths up even as species faces crisis: study 
Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2024Shark bites and fatalities ticked up worldwide last year, with Australia accounting for a disproportionate number of deaths resulting from heightened contact with humans even as the ancient predators face a wider extinction crisis. Two French aid workers killed in Russian drone strike in Ukraine 
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 2, 2024Two French citizens volunteering aid to Ukraine were killed Thursday in a Russian drone attack on the city of Beryslav, according to Kherson region military administration head Oleksandr Prokudin. UK judge dismisses Greta Thunberg protest case 
London (AFP) Feb 2, 2024A London court threw out a public order case on Friday against climate activist Greta Thunberg and four other protesters, with the judge criticising "unlawful" conditions imposed by police when they were arrested. Ukrainian nuclear staff barred from Russia-held plant: IAEA 
Vienna (AFP) Feb 1, 2024The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Thursday that workers from Ukraine's atomic energy operator Energoatom have been barred from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Global groundwater depletion is accelerating, but is not inevitable 
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2024Groundwater is rapidly declining across the globe, often at accelerating rates. Writing in the journal Nature, UC Santa Barbara researchers present the largest assessment of groundwater levels aroun Study warns of overreliance on carbon dioxide removal in climate strategies 
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Feb 02, 2024In a pivotal study published in Science, researchers have presented a cautionary perspective on the global reliance on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategies, shedding light on the significant chal New tool predicts flood risk from hurricanes in a warming climate 
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 05, 2024Coastal cities and communities will face more frequent major hurricanes with climate change in the coming years. To help prepare coastal cities against future storms, MIT scientists have developed a Wildfires scorch central Chile, death toll tops 110 
Vina Del Mar, Chile (AFP) Feb 5, 2024The death toll from central Chile's blazing wildfires climbed to at least 112 people on Sunday, after President Gabriel Boric warned the number would rise "significantly" as teams search gutted neighborhoods. Chile wildfire survivors return to horrifying aftermath 
Vina Del Mar, Chile (AFP) Feb 5, 2024Within minutes his world erupted in a hellish fire: Abraham Mardones, with just the clothes on his back, miraculously managed to escape the epicenter of the deadliest wildfires in Chile's recent history. Quake trauma haunts children in Turkey's container city 
Kahramanmaras, Turkey (AFP) Feb 3, 2024Cansu Gol lost her baby in the rubble of Turkey's massive earthquake a year ago. Now she spends her time trying to heal the mental scars of her two surviving children. Schumer says Senate to vote on Ukraine, border security bill next week 
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 1, 2024Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Thursday that the Senate will vote next week on a bill funding the war in Ukraine and addressing border security. Good news? Groundhog predicts early spring 
New York (AFP) Feb 2, 2024Finally, some good news? Pennsylvania's primo prognosticator Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow during annual Groundhog Day celebrations Friday meaning that, according to legend, there will be an early spring. Man arrested in France over theft of endangered monkeys 
Marseille (AFP) Feb 2, 2024A man was brought before a judge in southern French city Marseille Friday on suspicion of stealing 14 endangered squirrel monkeys from a zoo, judicial sources said. US patient 'happy again' after brain implant treats epilepsy and OCD 
Portland (AFP) Feb 4, 2024American Amber Pearson used to wash her hands until they bled, terrified by the idea of contamination from everyday items, a debilitating result of her obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Yang Jun: dissident Chinese-Australian writer handed suspended death sentence 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2024Chinese-Australian writer Yang Jun, who was handed a suspended death sentence in China, had gained a huge following in exile for his spy novels and calls for greater freedom in his homeland. Turkey commemorates its worst disaster of modern times 
Istanbul (AFP) Feb 3, 2024Turkey on Tuesday holds pre-dawn vigils for the loss of more than 50,000 people - and parts of entire cities - in the earthquake-prone country's deadliest disaster of modern times. African Union troops complete new phase of Somalia pullout plan 
Nairobi (AFP) Feb 2, 2024The African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia, where Al-Shabaab jihadists are waging an insurgency, said Friday the second phase of a drawdown involving 3,000 troops has been completed after a four-month delay. Permafrost alone holds back Arctic rivers - and a lot of carbon 
Providence RI (SPX) Feb 02, 2024New research from Dartmouth provides the first evidence that the Arctic's frozen soil is the dominant force shaping Earth's northernmost rivers. Permafrost, the thick layer of soil that stays frozen Frozen methane under the seabed is thawing as oceans warm 
Newcastle UK (SPX) Feb 02, 2024Buried beneath the oceans surrounding continents is a naturally occurring frozen form of methane and water. Sometimes dubbed "fire-ice" as you can literally set light to it, marine methane hydrate c EU eyes 90% cut to greenhouse gases by 2040 
Strasbourg, France (AFP) Feb 6, 2024The EU on Tuesday urged a 90-percent cut to its greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, even as the bloc's transition to a greener future was clouded by a widespread farmers' revolt. EU strikes deal on clean tech to compete with China, US 
Brussels (AFP) Feb 6, 2024EU states and lawmakers clinched a deal on Tuesday to expand Europe's clean tech production, from solar and wind to carbon capture, as the bloc faces off with China and the United States. Chance for Italy's toxic steelworks to finally go green 
Rome (AFP) Feb 6, 2024Doctor Maria Grazia Serra's patients have been "breathing, eating and drinking" toxins from Taranto's steelworks for decades, but a dispute over the vast Italian plant could finally see its ecological conversion. Yemen rebels launch fresh Red Sea ship attacks 
Dubai (AFP) Feb 7, 2024Yemen's Huthi rebels launched six missiles toward two merchant ships on Tuesday, reportedly causing light damage to one of the vessels, the US military said. Taiwan chip giant TSMC announces second Japan plant 
Taipei (AFP) Feb 6, 2024TSMC will build a second foundry in Japan, the semiconductor giant and its local partners announced Tuesday, weeks before its first in the country officially opens. Ghana struggling with tsunami of secondhand clothes 
Accra, Ghana (AFP) Feb 7, 2024It takes Nii Armah and his crew of 30 fishermen hours to haul their weighty nets to shore on the bustling Korle-Gonno beach of Ghana's capital Accra. China Mobile takes the lead with first 6G Test Satellite 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 06, 2024China Mobile, in a pioneering move that marks a significant milestone in telecommunications technology, has successfully launched the world's first test satellite utilizing 6G design architecture. T IMF warns of Maldives foreign debt crisis, after China borrowing 
Colombo (AFP) Feb 7, 2024The strategically-placed Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives, which has borrowed heavily from China and shifted allegiance from India, is at high risk of "debt distress," the IMF warned Wednesday. GRAPES-3 experiment unveils unexpected twist in cosmic ray spectrum 
Mumbai, India (SPX) Feb 05, 2024The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research's GRAPES-3 experiment, based in Ooty, India, has made a pivotal discovery in the field of cosmic ray physics. Researchers have identified a new characteris Beyond Gravity supports NASA in enhancing climate data accuracy with PACE satellite 
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 05, 2024Beyond Gravity, Europe's leading space supplier, has been selected by NASA to provide crucial navigation technology for a new climate satellite, the PACE mission, set to launch on February 6, 2024. Iran says construction started on new nuclear reactor 
Tehran (AFP) Feb 5, 2024Iran said Monday it had started building a new nuclear research reactor in Isfahan, days after it announced it was constructing a nuclear power plant complex in the south. |
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