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November 09, 2025
FLORA AND FAUNA
No picnic: How to survive a bear encounter; as Japan battles spike in attacks



Kita-Akita, Japan (AFP) Nov 8, 2025
The sense of fear is palpable in parts of northern Japan, where some locals have fastened bells to their bags hoping the noise will keep bears away, while signs warn people to be on guard. The animals have killed a record 13 across the country since April, with a steady flow of reports of bears entering homes, roaming near schools and rampaging in supermarkets. "We hear news almost every day about people being attacked or injured," said 28-year-old Kakeru Matsuhashi, a traditional "Matagi" hunte ... read more

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COP30: Indigenous peoples vital to humanity's future
Belem, Brazil (AFP) Nov 8, 2025
At COP30 in Belem, in Brazil's Amazon region, the country's Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, hopes Indigenous peoples will play a leading role in the international climate conference that begins Monday. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
India mega-zoo in spotlight again over animal acquisitions
Bangkok (AFP) Nov 9, 2025
Leading wildlife protection experts have urged India to suspend all imports of the world's most endangered species, endorsing long-running concerns by conservationists about mass acquisitions by mega-zoo Vantara. ... more
WATER WORLD
Tehran to restrict water as Iran battles drought
Tehran (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
WATER WORLD
Chinese ship scouts deep-ocean floor in South Pacific
Auckland, New Zealand (AFP) Nov 8, 2025
A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a fledgling industry of mounting interest to both Beijing and Washington. ... more
FARM NEWS
Death Valley plant reveals blueprint for building heat-resilient crops
East Lansing, MI (SPX) Nov 08, 2025
In California's Death Valley, where summer temperatures regularly soar above 120 degrees Fahrenheit, life seems almost impossible. Yet among the cracked earth and blinding sunlight, one native plant ... more
UAV NEWS
Drones measure wastewater treatment plants greenhouse emissions at greater levels than official estimates
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Greenhouse gas emissions from many wastewater treatment plants may be more than twice as large as previously thought. A new study from Linkoping University demonstrates this using drones equipped wi ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
ESA satellites track progress on Paris Agreement goals
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 08, 2025
As the United Nations COP30 climate change conference convenes in Belem, Brazil, the world's attention will turn to the heart of the Amazon rainforest - a region that symbolises both hope and concer ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Protein Production Tested in Microgravity for Sustainable Space Missions
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 04, 2025
European Space Agency (ESA) has initiated the study phase of the HOBI-WAN project, aimed at addressing astronaut food supply on extended Moon or Mars missions without Earth resupply. Funded by ... more

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EARTH OBSERVATION
Reflectivity of ocean clouds drops as air pollution falls and global temperatures climb
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2025
A recent study by University of Washington researchers explains that Earth is absorbing more heat than it did several decades ago, due to rapidly declining cloud reflectivity over ocean regions. Glo ... more
FARM NEWS
Texas Tech scientists develop novel acceleration technique for crop creation
Lubbock, Texas (SPX) Nov 6, 2025
A team of plant biotechnologists led by Gunvant Patil at Texas Tech University has developed a groundbreaking method that could dramatically speed up the development of regeneration process and gene ... more
OIL AND GAS
EU airlines agree to drop misleading climate claims
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Nov 7, 2025
European airlines including Lufthansa, Air France and KLM have agreed to stop making misleading environmental claims about offsetting the carbon emissions from air travel, the European Commission said Friday. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Countries agree to end mercury tooth fillings by 2034
Geneva (AFP) Nov 8, 2025
Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change dentistry around the world. ... more
FARM NEWS
Brazil welcomes China lift of ban on poultry imports
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Nov 7, 2025
Brazil, the world's biggest exporter of chicken meat, on Friday welcomed China's move to lift a ban on imports of the product after an outbreak of bird flu earlier this year. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
3 dead in Spain's Tenerife as seas batter island; Tornado kills 6 as it destroys southern Brazil town
Madrid (AFP) Nov 8, 2025
Three people died Saturday in separate incidents linked to rough seas on the Spanish holiday island of Tenerife, local emergency services said. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS
In Sudan, satellite images uncover atrocities in El-Fasher
Cairo (AFP) Nov 5, 2025
Satellite images from Sudan have played a crucial role in uncovering the atrocities committed during paramilitaries' takeover of the last army stronghold in the western Darfur region. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Kenyan prosecution welcomes detention of UK ex-soldier over woman's murder
Nairobi (AFP) Nov 8, 2025
Kenya's prosecution service on Saturday welcomed the detention of a British ex-soldier accused of murdering a woman in the east African country more than a decade ago. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
On Nigeria, domestic politics again shapes Trump's Africa agenda
Washington (AFP) Nov 5, 2025
First pressuring South Africa, and now threatening Nigeria, President Donald Trump is letting US domestic politics steer his policy on Africa - boding ill for foreign governments hit with his fury. ... more
TERRADAILY
Philippines evacuates hundreds of thousands as super typhoon nears
Manila (AFP) Nov 9, 2025
Nearly a million people have been evacuated and floodwaters were rising in the Philippines on Sunday before Typhoon Fung-wong's expected late-night landfall on the east coast. ... more
NUKEWARS
Iran president warns Tehran may face evacuation due to drought
Tehran (AFP) Nov 7, 2025
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned in a speech broadcast on Friday that the capital Tehran may need evacuating because of water shortages if it doesn't rain before the end of the year. ... more
ENERGY NEWS
World has 'the tools' to unlock $1.3 trillion in climate finance: COP30 report
Paris (AFP) Nov 5, 2025
The world has all the tools in hand to provide $1.3 trillion in climate finance to vulnerable nations, from debt relief to taxes and better coordination, said a "roadmap" released Wednesday ahead of the COP30 summit in Brazil. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Using classic physical phenomena to solve new problems
Boston, MA (SPX) Nov 09, 2025
Marco Graffiedi, a doctoral student in nuclear science and engineering, is researching quenching processes to help cool nuclear cores, and NASA craft the next generation of space vehicles. ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
A new patch could help to heal the heart
Boston MA (SPX) Nov 06, 2025
MIT engineers developed a programmable drug-delivery patch that can promote tissue healing and blood vessel regrowth following a heart attack. MIT engineers have developed a flexible drug-deli ... more
ICE WORLD
URI climate scientist contributes to research illustrating future impacts of Antarctic ice sheet melting
Providence, RI (SPX) Nov 07, 2025
Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet due to global warming has long-term, irreversible societal impacts with important implications for people around the world. Spatial patterns of sea level change fr ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Operation Cloudburst: Dutch train for 'water bomb' floods
Ijsselstein, Netherlands (AFP) Nov 7, 2025
A twin-prop Chinook helicopter shatters the calm of the Dutch countryside, hovering just metres from a canal before dumping four huge sandbags into the water: welcome to Operation Cloudburst. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Deadly Typhoon Kalmaegi ravages Vietnam, Philippines
Vietnam (AFP) Nov 7, 2025
Typhoon Kalmaegi churned across Vietnam Friday, claiming five more lives after its devastating passage through the Philippines where the death toll rose to 188. ... more
ICE WORLD
Big leap in quest to get to bottom of climate ice mystery
Kon Chukurbashi, Tajikistan (AFP) Nov 7, 2025
Stanislav Kutuzov felt the drillhead he was controlling smash into the rock more than 100 metres below him high on a glacier in the Pamir peaks of Tajikistan. The ice core samples it took could help solve one of climate science's great mysteries. ... more
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CLIMATE SCIENCE
'Moral failure': Leaders seek to rally world at Amazon climate talks
Belem, Brazil (AFP) Nov 6, 2025
Fears of a fracturing global resolve loomed over climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon on Thursday as world leaders acknowledged their failure to contain global warming to agreed limits. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Hurricane left millions of tons of debris in Jamaica: UN
United Nations, United States (AFP) Nov 6, 2025
Hurricane Melissa's violent pass over Jamaica spread nearly five million tons of debris, creating road blockages and disrupting access to basic services, the United Nations warned Thursday. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
UN says 2025 to be among top three warmest years on record
Geneva (AFP) Nov 6, 2025
An alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has put 2025 on course to be among the hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that the trend could still be reversed. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Guinean opposition leader to take exclusion from election to court
Conakry (AFP) Nov 6, 2025
Exiled Guinean opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo told AFP on Thursday he would file a complaint to the West African bloc ECOWAS's courts for having been excluded from running in next month's presidential election. ... more
WATER WORLD
New research identifies greater winter carbon dioxide emissions from Southern Ocean
Tokyo, 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
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