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July 05, 2025
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Consortium plans global shift toward net negative carbon economy



London, UK (SPX) Jun 30, 2025
Experts from around the world will converge in Exeter next week to help accelerate the development of a global carbon removal economy. The New Carbon Economy Consortium (NCEC) will convene its annual meeting at the University of Exeter from June 29 to July 1, bringing together universities, national laboratories, NGOs, and industry leaders to foster collaboration on large-scale carbon capture strategies. The initiative aims to drive the transition toward an economy that stores more carbon th ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION
Six satellites launched for ICEYE as constellation expansion gains momentum
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2025
Six new Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites built by ICEYE have successfully launched aboard the SpaceX Transporter-14 rideshare mission, marking the company's largest single deployment to dat ... more
EPIDEMICS
WHO says all Covid-19 origin theories still open, after inconclusive study
Geneva (AFP) June 27, 2025
All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said Friday, following an inconclusive four-year investigation that was hamstrung by crucial information being withheld. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Japan launches third rocket to measure climate change
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 29, 2025
A Japanese company has launched a rocket designed to monitor sea temperature and greenhouse gases as part of its overall mission to study the effects of climate change on the atmosphere. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Defense Department to end satellite data programs used for storm forecasts
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 28, 2025
With the of peak hurricane season looming, forecasters will be without key information starting Monday because the Defense Department said it will no longer provide them with data from the weather satellites. ... more
WHITE OUT
Snow cloaks Atacama, the world's driest desert
Santiago (AFP) June 26, 2025
Residents of the world's driest desert, the Atacama in northern Chile, woke up Thursday to a jaw-dropping spectacle: its famous lunar landscape blanketed in snow. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Italy chemical plant execs jailed for pollution
Rome (AFP) June 26, 2025
An Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals". ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Storm Flossie strengthens into a hurricane near Mexico coast
Mexico City (AFP) July 1, 2025
Tropical Storm Flossie strengthened into a hurricane on Monday near Mexico's Pacific coast where it is expected to bring torrential rains, the US National Hurricane Center said. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Tunisia U-turn on phosphate plant sparks anger in blighted city
Gabes, Tunisia (AFP) June 26, 2025
The bedroom of 74-year-old Cherifa Attia smells like burnt rubber. The vast phosphate processing plant beside her home has been belching out toxic fumes into the atmosphere, blighting this Tunisian city. ... more

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TECHNOLOGY NEWS


EARTH OBSERVATION
Study challenges climate change's link to our wild winter jet stream
Hanover NH (SPX) Jun 30, 2025
Dartmouth study challenges the idea that climate change is behind the erratic wintertime behavior of the polar jet stream, the massive current of Arctic air that regulates weather for much of the No ... more
WATER WORLD
'I lost my battle': warming sea killing Albania fishing
Vlore, Albania (AFP) July 2, 2025
As dawn broke, fisherman Viktor Kocaj hauled his net on board his battered skiff, but after a whole night in the Adriatic, the catch was too small to even feed his family. ... more
SUPERPOWERS
China says Dalai Lama successor must be approved by Beijing
Beijing (AFP) July 2, 2025
China said on Wednesday that the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama "must be approved by the central government", after Tibet's exiled spiritual leader said he would have a successor after his death. ... more
WATER WORLD
Fiji says would not welcome China military presence in Pacific
Sydney (AFP) July 2, 2025
Fiji's prime minister said Wednesday that China should not be allowed to gain a permanent military foothold in the strategically contested South Pacific region. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Japan updates 'megaquake' preparedness plan
Tokyo (AFP) July 2, 2025
The Japanese government said that much more needs to be done to prepare for a possible "megaquake" to reduce the feared death toll of up to 300,000 people. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Relief coming for Europe after brutal heatwave
Paris (AFP) July 2, 2025
After days of record-breaking heatwaves across Europe, relief will start to arrive from the Atlantic on Wednesday, bringing thunderstorms and cooler temperatures to parts of western Europe. ... more
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FIRE STORM
Winds hamper firefighters in Turkey as heat wave scorches Southern Europe
Paris (AFP) June 30, 2025
Firefighters in western Turkey were on Monday battling high winds to try and control a large forest fire raging in a coastal area of the Izmir province, a minister said. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Heatwave leaves Moroccan cities sweltering in record-breaking tempertatures
Rabat (AFP) June 29, 2025
Monthly temperature records have been broken across Morocco, sometimes topping seasonal norms by as much as 20 degrees Celsius, the national meteorological office said Sunday, as the North African kingdom was gripped by a heatwave. ... more
WATER WORLD
China to resume some Japanese seafood imports after Fukushima ban
Beijing (AFP) June 30, 2025
China has lifted a ban on seafood imports from most regions of Japan, partially mending a years-long dispute over Tokyo's handling of nuclear wastewater. ... more
ICE WORLD
Denmark develops tool to predict ice-free Arctic summers
Copenhagen (AFP) June 27, 2025
The Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) said on Friday it was developing a tool to predict when the Arctic will be ice-free in summer, to anticipate the consequences on the Earth's climate. ... more
SUPERPOWERS
Dalai Lama suggests institution to continue at 90th birthday launch
Mcleod Ganj, India (AFP) June 30, 2025
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, gave on Monday the strongest indication yet that the 600-year-old institution would continue after his death, at prayer celebrations for his 90th birthday. ... more
FARM NEWS
Six million donkeys slaughtered for Chinese medicine: charity
Addis Ababa (AFP) June 26, 2025
Almost six million donkeys are slaughtered annually for Chinese medicine, with severe knock-on effects for African villagers who rely on the animals, a UK-based charity said on Thursday. ... more
FARM NEWS
Sri Lanka court stops state land grab from Tamils
Colombo (AFP) June 27, 2025
Sri Lanka's top court halted Friday a government move to acquire land in northern regions still reeling from the consequences 16 years after the end of a decades-long civil war. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Spotted: endangered leopard in Bangladesh
Dhaka (AFP) June 26, 2025
Photographs of a leopard snapped by camera traps in forests in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts have raised hopes among conservationists working to save the critically endangered species. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Colombia landslide death toll rises to 16
Bogota (AFP) June 27, 2025
The death toll from a recent landslide near the Colombian city of Medellin has risen to 16, authorities said Thursday, with the search continuing for more missing. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Colombia to reject key US extradition requests
Bogota, Colombia (AFP) June 27, 2025
Colombia's new justice minister told AFP on Thursday that some key drug extraditions to the United States "will be suspended," even if it worsens already frayed ties with Washington. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Netanyahu rejects report Israeli troops ordered to fire on Gaza aid-seekers
Jerusalem (AFP) June 27, 2025
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday rejected a report that the country's military commanders ordered their soldiers to fire at Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Pakistan flash floods, heavy rain kill 45 in just days
Islamabad (AFP) June 29, 2025
Heavy rain and flash flooding across Pakistan have killed 45 people in just a few days since the start of the monsoon season, disaster management officials said Sunday. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS
US sanctions on Sudan over alleged chemical weapons use take effect
Washington (AFP) June 28, 2025
US sanctions on Sudan's government - imposed over what Washington says was the use by Khartoum's military of chemical weapons in the country's bloody civil war last year - have taken effect. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Hong Kong opposition party disbands citing 'immense' pressure
Hong Kong (AFP) June 29, 2025
One of Hong Kong's last remaining opposition parties has officially disbanded, its leader announced Sunday, citing "immense political pressure" as Beijing's years-long crackdown on dissent transforms the semi-autonomous Chinese city. ... more
DEMOCRACY
UK considers envoy for Britons held abroad
London (AFP) June 29, 2025
Britain is preparing to emulate the United States by appointing an envoy tasked with freeing citizens arbitrarily detained abroad, as it faces calls to do more to bring them home. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
The mixed fortunes of development aid
Paris (AFP) June 27, 2025
The United Nations summit on financing for development gets underway Monday in Seville under a grim cloud: multiple conflicts, humanitarian crises and the shock disengagement of the United States. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Syria's wheat war: drought fuels food crisis for 16 million
Damascus (AFP) June 27, 2025
Rival Syrian and Kurdish producers are scrambling for shrinking wheat harvests as the worst drought in decades follows a devastating war, pushing more than 16 million people toward food insecurity. ... more
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