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  Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2025 Fake stories that atmospheric experiments are triggering natural disasters have led to US states pushing blanket bans on weather modification, which experts say may jeopardize current local scientific programs and hinder future research. From recent deadly flooding in Kentucky to the Florida and North Carolina monster hurricanes of 2024, Americans have amplified increasingly conspiratorial explanations for extreme weather events - even blaming manufactured clouds blocking sunlight for the devastati ... read more |
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Trump eyes 65% staff cut at US environmental agencyWashington (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration aims to cut around 65 percent of staff at the Environmental Protection Agency, a key regulatory body that works on a range of areas, including climate change. ... more  
Britons advised to cut meat, air travel to reach net zero targetsLondon (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 Britons will have to pay more to fly and should forego two-steaks worth of meat a week if the country is to meet net zero targets, the government's advisory body said Wednesday. ... more  
Anger as German conservatives question NGO fundingBerlin (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 Left-wing parties in the German parliament reacted with consternation on Wednesday after the conservatives, fresh from their election win, demanded more scrutiny of a list of government-funded projects. ... more  
Japan forest fire burns buildings, prompts evacuationsTokyo (AFP) Feb 27, 2025 A wildfire in northern Japan has damaged over 80 buildings and forced the evacuation of hundreds of residents, with military helicopters mobilised to help put it out, authorities said Thursday. ... more |
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Los Angeles wildfires costliest in history: Munich ReFrankfurt, Germany (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Wednesday that last month's huge wildfires in Los Angeles had been the costliest "in the history of the insurance industry". ... more |
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Philippine police rescue kidnapped teen, hunt ex-gambling site operatorsManila (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 A young kidnap victim clad in pajamas and missing a finger was rescued from the side of a busy Manila thoroughfare this week after his abductors ditched him during a police pursuit, Philippine authorities said Wednesday. ... more  
Cook Islands PM beats no-confidence vote, slams New ZealandSydney (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 The Cook Islands' prime minister survived a no-confidence vote on Wednesday, blaming "misinformation" from former colonial ruler New Zealand for destabilising his Pacific country. ... more  
Chinese treasures restored in the heart of BeijingBeijing (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 In a workshop tucked away in Beijing's historic Forbidden City, a restorer hunched over a centuries-old figurine, using a cotton bud to delicately clean its dusty crevices after years hidden in storage. ... more 
Vanuatu climate minister frets over US climate reversalSydney (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 Vanuatu's climate minister said Wednesday his low-lying Pacific nation is vexed by the potential impact of President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. ... more |
 
'All eyes on Arctic': Canada boosts its northern forceYellowknife, Canada (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 In the mess hall of a Canadian military base a few hundred kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, Brigadier-General Daniel Riviere pointed to a map highlighting the region that is becoming a national priority. ... more  Available on Amazon Books |
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Chip based microcombs boost gps precisionBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 24, 2025 Optical atomic clocks hold the promise of enhancing timekeeping and positioning in everyday devices by a factor of one thousand. Yet their large size and complex design have kept them confined to ad ... more  
The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught with moral perilBloomington IN (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 "Who wants to live forever?" Freddie Mercury mournfully asks in Queen's 1986 song of the same name. The answer: Quite a few people - so much so that life extension has long been a cottage indu ... more
'All eyes on Arctic': Canada boosts its northern forceYellowknife, Canada (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 In the mess hall of a Canadian military base a few hundred kilometers south of the Arctic Circle, Brigadier-General Daniel Riviere pointed to a map highlighting the region that is becoming a national priority. ... more 
Arctic military build-up brings foreign troops to northern FinlandSodankyla, Finland (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 Finnish conscripts in white and grey winter fatigues ski through a snowy forest near the border with Russia, dragging small pine trees behind them to camouflage tanks. ... more |
Giant ice sheets shaped Earth's evolution by altering ocean chemistrySydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 26, 2025 New research from Curtin University has revealed that ancient glaciers played a crucial role in shaping Earth's environment, paving the way for the emergence of complex life. By chemically ana ... more  
'Matter of survival': Nations spar over nature funding at UN talksRome (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 Global talks to protect nature restarted Tuesday with a call for humanity to come together to "sustain life on the planet" and overcome a fight over funding that caused a previous meeting last year to end in disarray. ... more 
Saving nature can 'unite world' countries told at rebooted UN talksRome (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 Global talks to protect nature restarted Tuesday with a call for humanity to come together to "sustain life on the planet" and overcome the deep divisions that caused a previous meeting last year to end in disarray. ... more 
Nauru sells citizenship to fund climate change mitigationSydney (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 Pacific microstate Nauru is selling citizenship to fund its retreat from rising seas, President David Adeang told AFP, opening a contentious "golden passport" scheme as other climate financing runs dry. ... more |
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29 dead due to hail, rain in Afghanistan: officialsHerat, Afghanistan (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 Twenty-nine people died in two provinces in Afghanistan due to hail and heavy rain, officials said Tuesday. ... more  
Indonesia residents run outside as shallow quake hitsJakarta (AFP) Feb 26, 2025 A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit near the Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey said, forcing residents to flee outside but with no damage or casualties reported. ... more 
Pentagon chief visits Guantanamo as US pushes to deport migrantsWashington (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday visited Guantanamo, the US military base in Cuba known for holding suspected militants that President Donald Trump's administration is now using to detain undocumented migrants. ... more  
HRW accuses army-aligned force of attack on central Sudan villagePort Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 Human Rights Watch accused a Sudanese army-aligned force on Tuesday of an attack on a village in the centre of the war-torn country that left at least 26 people dead. ... more |
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Wounded South African soldiers return home from DR CongoJohannesburg (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 South African troops seriously wounded in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have returned home for treatment, the military said on Tuesday. ... more |
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'Process is the punishment': The rise of SLAPP suits in the USWashington (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 What do Donald Trump's lawsuit against an Iowa pollster, a $300 million case against Greenpeace by an oil pipeline operator, and companies suing customers over negative reviews have in common? ... more 
Harnessing Fog for Water Supply in the World's Driest RegionsParis, France (SPX) Feb 21, 2025 Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, receives less than 1 mm of rainfall annually. Water supplies in the region largely depend on underground reservoirs that were last replenis ... more 
Glacial Fracking Identified as Undetected Arctic Methane SourceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2025 Researchers Gabrielle Kleber and Leonard Magerl from the Centre for Ice, Cryosphere, Carbon and Climate (iC3) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway have revealed a previously unidentified source of ... more 
Countries lock horns over cash for nature at rebooted UN talksRome (AFP) Feb 25, 2025 The world's biggest nature conservation conference will restart on Tuesday after negotiations collapsed in disarray last year, with the head of the meeting warning that increasing global "polarisation" was frustrating efforts to protect the planet. ... more |
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