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Iran president says capital move needed due to overcrowding, water crisis
Tehran Nov 20, 2025 Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Thursday that the country's capital should be relocated away from Tehran because of overcrowding and a deepening water crisis. Pezeshkian has raised the idea of moving away from Tehran before, with rainfall in the capital this year at its lowest level for a century. "The reality is that we have no choice. It (the relocation) is a necessity. We cannot overwhelm this region with more population and construction," he said, according to the official IRNA news ... read more |
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Greece puts capital Athens on water emergency footingAthens (AFP) Nov 29, 2025 Greece has put the greater Athens area and two islands on a water emergency footing, to speed up infrastructure works and address the mounting threat of chronic drought. ... more 
Human washing machine goes on sale in JapanTokyo (AFP) Nov 28, 2025 After wowing World Expo visitors, a human washing machine is now on sale in Japan, a company spokeswoman said Friday. ... more 
Iran halts power generation at key dam over droughtTehran (AFP) Nov 29, 2025 Iranian authorities on Saturday stopped electricity production at one of the country's biggest dams due to a marked decrease in the reservoir's water levels, state media reported. ... more 
Ocean regions show simultaneous changes in temperature salinity oxygen and acidityTokyo Japan (SPX) Nov 26 2025 An international team has documented significant compound changes across much of the global ocean's upper one thousand meters. The study in Nature Climate Change developed a framework to identify lo ... more |
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Education for girls hit hard by India's drying wells Nandurbar, India (AFP) Nov 18, 2025 Each morning, 17-year-old Ramati Mangla sets off barefoot with a steel pot in hand, walking several kilometres to fetch water from a distant spring in India's Maharashtra state. ... more 
Rats played major role in Easter Island's deforestation, study revealsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2025 The common myth of Easter Island suggests that islanders deliberately cut down all the trees to roll their massive moai statues into place, supposedly causing an ecological disaster that devastated ... more 
6 Things to Know From NASA About New US, European Sea SatellitePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2025 Data from Sentinel-6B will continue a decades-long record of sea surface height, helping to improve coastal planning, protect critical infrastructure, and advance weather forecasts. With launc ... more 
How fishes of the deep sea have evolved into different shapesColumbus OH (SPX) Nov 14, 2025 Fish species living in the deep sea feature a surprisingly large range of body shapes that evolved in different ways and at different rates depending on where the fishes live in the ocean, new resea ... more 
Zanzibar women turn to sponge farming as oceans heat upZanzibar, Tanzania (AFP) Nov 13, 2025 At about 10 o'clock every morning, women in hijabs and loose long dresses wade through Zanzibar's turquoise shallow tides to tend their sponge farms - a new lifeline after climate change upended their former work. ... more |
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Australia, Indonesia agree to sign new security treaty
Sydney (AFP) Nov 12, 2025 Australia and Indonesia agreed to sign a new security treaty, which includes closer military cooperation, the two countries' leaders said after talks in Sydney on Wednesday. Canberra has drawn ever nearer to longtime ally Washington, bolstering its military in an attempt to deter the might of a rising China in the Asia-Pacific region. Jakarta has walked a more neutral path, wary of drawing too close to Washington and far less willing to needle Beijing. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, speaki ... read more 
Threat from mining waste disrupts twilight zone ocean food websSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 12, 2025 A new study led by the University of Hawaii at Manoa, published in Nature Communications, presents the first evidence that waste discharged from deep-sea mining in the Pacific's Clarion-Clipperton Z ... more |
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First evidence of Ice XXI phase observed at extreme pressure and room temperatureTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2025 The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has observed for the first time the multiple freezing-melting process of water at room temperature under ultrahigh pressures exceeding 2 ... more 
Threat from sand mining places Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake at severe riskLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 11, 2025 Intense sand mining is destabilizing Tonle Sap Lake, Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. New research has pinpointed sand extraction in the Mekong River as the p ... more 
Dam reservoir levels drop below 3% in Iran's second city: mediaTehran (AFP) Nov 9, 2025 Water levels at the dam reservoirs supplying Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad plunged below three percent, media reported Sunday, as the country suffers from severe water shortages. ... more 
New research identifies greater winter carbon dioxide emissions from Southern OceanTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 07, 2025 A collaborative research team has discovered that the Southern Ocean releases substantially more carbon dioxide during the dark austral winter than previously thought. Their new study reveals that t ... more 
Tehran to restrict water as Iran battles droughtTehran (AFP) Nov 8, 2025 Iran was laying plans on Saturday to cut off water supplies periodically to Tehran's 10-million-strong population as it battles its worst drought in many decades. ... more |
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