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Australia heatwave stokes risk of catastrophic bushfiresSydney (AFP) Jan 8, 2026 Firefighters warned millions of Australians of "catastrophic" bushfire dangers on Thursday as they battled multiple blazes stoked by a heatwave blanketing the country. ... more  
3,000 tourists evacuated as Argentine Patagonia battles wildfiresEpuyen, Argentina (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 Argentine authorities have evacuated some 3,000 tourists from a sparsely populated Patagonian district ravaged by wildfires for days, officials said Wednesday. ... more  
Clearing small areas of rainforest has outsized climate impact: studyParis, France (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 Think of the destruction of Earth's rainforests and a familiar image may come to mind: fires or chainsaws tearing through enormous swathes of the Amazon, releasing masses of planet-warming carbon dioxide. ... more  
Europe faces transport chaos as cold snap toll risesParis, France (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 Snow, ice and high winds brought transport chaos to swathes of Europe for a third day on Wednesday, with hundreds of flights cancelled and passengers stranded. ... more |
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Markets reshape daily life in North Korea but an uprising remains unlikely Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 03, 2026 North Korea's informal markets have become central to daily survival and are quietly changing how people relate to the state, yet analysts say the country still lacks the conditions needed for a popular uprising against the Kim regime. ... more  
Hydrogen from organic carbon in deep sediment hosted hydrothermal systemsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 Hydrothermal vent fields along mid-ocean ridges form where seawater penetrates the oceanic crust, heats to more than 400 degrees Celsius, and then rises back to the seafloor with dissolved chemicals ... more  
Japan nuclear plant operator may have underestimated quake risksTokyo (AFP) Jan 6, 2026 A Japanese nuclear plant operator said it may have presented data underestimating earthquake risks to regulators, as Japan moves to revive nuclear power nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster. ... more  
Greenland shark study may lead to new ways to preserve vision as we ageIrvine CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Irvine associate professor of physiology and biophysics, poi ... more |
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Greenland's Prudhoe Dome ice cap was completely gone only 7,000 years ago, first GreenDrill study findsBuffalo NY (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 The first study from GreenDrill - a project co-led by the University at Buffalo to collect rocks and sediment buried beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet - has found that the Prudhoe Dome ice cap was com ... more |
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Satellite and model fusion boosts China solar radiation forecastsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 31, 2025 The intermittent output of solar power creates challenges for grid operators who must keep supply and demand in balance. Traditional numerical weather prediction models often handle cloud initializa ... more  
Drone phenomics sharpen genetic signals and automate field trait extraction in maize and peanut breedingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 Remote sensing and artificial intelligence are reshaping how breeders measure crop performance in the field, with new studies in maize and peanut showing how drone-based phenomics can both strengthe ... more  
Smart biochar sorbents target persistent pollutants in complex water streamsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 Scientists are combining molecular imprinting technology with biochar to build sorbent materials that can recognize and bind specific pollutant molecules with high selectivity. Biochar, produced by ... more  
Biochar layer boosts hydrogen rich gas yields from corn strawTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 01, 2026 Biochar can help convert agricultural residues such as corn straw into hydrogen rich gas while limiting carbon deposits on metal catalysts, according to a study in the journal Biochar. Researchers d ... more |
Ancient Antarctica reveals a 'one-two punch' behind ice sheet collapseBinghamton NY (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heatwaves that are felt rather than seen, except through the haziness of humid air. But when it comes to melting ice sh ... more  |
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Dogsleds, China and independence: Facts on GreenlandCopenhagen (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 US President Donald Trump has stepped up his designs on taking over Denmark's autonomous territory Greenland, but questions abound about why he has taken an aggressive stance when the US already has extensive access to the Arctic island. ... more 
2025 warmest year on record in North Sea: German maritime agencyBerlin (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 The North Sea experienced its warmest year on record in 2025, Germany's national agency for maritime affairs and hydrology (BSH) said Wednesday. ... more  
Accused scam boss Chen Zhi arrested in Cambodia, extradited to China: Phnom PenhPhnom Penh (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 Chinese-born tycoon Chen Zhi, who was indicted by the United States on fraud and money-laundering charges for running a multibillion-dollar cyberscam network from Cambodia, has been arrested there and extradited to China, Phnom Penh said Wednesday. ... more  
German emissions cuts slow, North Sea has warmest year on recordFrankfurt, Germany (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 Germany's greenhouse gas emission cuts slowed sharply in 2025 as the North Sea experienced its warmest year on record, piling pressure Wednesday on the conservative-led government to boost climate protection efforts. ... more |
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Norway sees hottest year on record in 2025 Oslo (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 Norway recorded its hottest year ever in 2025, following a strong summer heatwave and an unusually mild winter that started late in the year, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said on Wednesday. ... more  
Creating hallucination-free, psychedelic-like molecules by shining light on life's basic building blocksDavis CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 UC Davis researchers have developed a new method that uses light to transform amino acids - the building blocks of proteins - into molecules that are similar in structure to psychedelics and mimic t ... more 
Giant amoeba virus ushikuvirus sheds light on how complex cells evolvedTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 Giant DNA viruses that infect amoebae are providing new evidence that viruses may have helped drive the evolution of complex life, according to researchers at Tokyo University of Science and the Nat ... more  
Drones take thermal readings to track dolphin healthSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 07, 2026 Australia's dolphin populations are experiencing increasing pressure from environmental change and human activity, creating demand for non-invasive methods to assess their health and guide conservat ... more |
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Sentinel 1 decade long radar record tracks shifting Greenland and Antarctic iceBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 The Copernicus Sentinel 1 mission has delivered a 10 year record of how ice flows from Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets into the ocean, providing a consistent, high resolution view of a key driver ... more 
Oligocene deep ocean temperatures drove isotope swings in Antarctic climate recordBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 New analyses of oxygen isotopes in deep-sea microfossils indicate that large shifts in the mid Oligocene benthic foraminifera record primarily reflect temperature changes in the abyssal Southern Oce ... more  
Moroccan fossils trace ancient African branch near origin of Homo sapiensBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 An international team has analyzed newly described hominin fossils from Thomas Quarry I near Casablanca, Morocco, identifying an African population close to the base of the lineage that later gave r ... more 
Socializing alone: The downside of communication technologyColumbus OH (SPX) Jan 08, 2026 A review of more than 1,000 studies suggests that using technology to communicate with others is better than nothing - but still not as good as face-to-face interactions. Researchers found tha ... more |
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Ticking time bomb: Some farmers report as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month periodBinghamton NY (SPX) Jan 06, 2026 Finding one tick on your body is scary enough - tick-borne diseases are serious - but what if you found more than 10 on yourself in just one month? That's the plight of some farmers as the threat of ... more |
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China's birth-rate push sputters as couples stay child-free and pay contraceptive taxBeijing (AFP) Jan 5, 2026 Twenty-five-year-old Grace and her husband are set on staying child-free, resisting pressure from their parents and society to produce offspring, even as China strives to boost its flagging birth rate. ... more 
Climate-driven tree deaths speeding up in AustraliaBangkok (AFP) Jan 6, 2026 Australia's forests are losing trees more rapidly as the climate warms, a new study examining decades of data said Tuesday, warning the trend was likely a "widespread phenomenon". ... more  
Indonesia flood kills 16, displaces hundredsJakarta (AFP) Jan 6, 2026 Torrential rains battered Indonesia's Siau island, causing a flash flood that killed at least 16 people, with another three missing, authorities said Tuesday. ... more 
Norway sees hottest year on record in 2025Oslo (AFP) Jan 7, 2026 Norway recorded its hottest year ever in 2025, following a strong summer heatwave and an unusually mild winter that started late in the year, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said Monday. ... more |
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