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October 14, 2025
FIRE STORM
Who is setting fire to the Amazon?



Sao Felix Do Xingu, Brazil (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
"Red John" is an old acquaintance of landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon. He helps clears pastures cheaply, but also leaves blackened earth and charred trees in his wake - threatening the planet's largest tropical forest. In northern Brazil's cowboy country, fire is so entrenched in ranching that locals nicknamed it "Joao Vermelho" (Red John). Abandoning it is almost unthinkable. "Fire is a cheap way to maintain pasture. Labor is expensive, pesticides are expensive. Here we ... read more

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SHAKE AND BLOW
At least 64 dead, 65 missing in Mexico floods; Spain's Valencia region on red alert for torrential rain
Tenango De Doria, Mexico (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
Rescuers scrambled Monday to reach people cut off by devastating floods that have claimed 64 lives in central and eastern Mexico, with another 65 reported missing. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
14 injured in Philippines aftershock, weeks after deadly quake: rescuers
Manila (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
A moderately strong earthquake struck the central Philippine island of Cebu Monday, injuring at least 14 people and damaging infrastructure already weakened by a deadly tremor two weeks earlier, officials said. ... more
FARM NEWS
US soybean farmers battered by trade row with China
Cordova, Maryland, United States (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
The US soybean harvest is underway and in rural Maryland, farmer Travis Hutchison cracks open a pod to show how a field is nearly dry enough for reaping. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Brazil hopes Amazon summit can unite world for climate action
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis. ... more
WOOD PILE
Papua New Guinea's rainforest under major threat says new report
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Oct 14, 2025
Millions of hectares of virgin rainforest in Papua New Guinea are under threat due to a contentious permit scheme, environmental groups warned on Tuesday. ... more
GPS NEWS
TERN raises seed funding extension to scale satellite free navigation for vehicles fleets and defense
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2025
TERN has closed a $7.5 million Seed Extension to accelerate deployment of its Independently Derived Positioning System (IDPS), an AI-driven, satellite-free navigation technology for commercial and d ... more
ICE WORLD
North American ice sheets caused majority of post-Ice Age sea-level rise
New Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 11, 2025
Melting ice sheets in North America were the primary cause of a dramatic global sea-level rise at the end of the last ice age, according to new research led by Tulane University and published in Nat ... more
ICE WORLD
Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistance
Kon Chukurbashi, Tajikistan (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting - yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last? ... more

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WATER WORLD
World's coral reefs crossing survival limit: global experts
Paris (AFP) Oct 12, 2025
The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Brazil's climate wins ahead of COP30
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 14, 2025
Brazil's president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record as he prepares to host COP30 UN climate talks in a month. ... more
FARM NEWS
New Zealand accused of 'climate denial' over new methane targets
Wellington (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
Environmental campaigners have accused New Zealand's government of "full-blown climate denial" after it slashed targets for reducing emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Burkina magistrates, journalists kidnapped, missing; Former jihadist fighters join Niger army
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
Three appeals' court magistrates in Burkina Faso and two senior journalists from leading private daily newspapers have been kidnapped or reported missing, a media organisation, a friend and a legal source said Monday. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Dozens killed by paramilitary drone and artillery attacks in Sudan
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 11, 2025
Locals said a drone and artillery attack on a refugee shelter by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in el-Fasher, Sudan, late Friday killed at least 60. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Madagascar on edge as embattled president's address delayed
Antananarivo, Madagascar (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
A keenly awaited national address by Madagascar's cornered President Andry Rajoelina, who went missing as calls grew for his resignation, was delayed twice Monday as a group of armed forces tried to take control of the state-owned media. ... more
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China detains prominent 'underground' pastor in crackdown
Beijing (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
The founder of a prominent Chinese underground church has been detained along with more than 20 of its members in a sweeping national crackdown, according to his daughter and one of its pastors. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Trees, targets and trillions: what's on the agenda at COP30?
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda? ... more
FARM NEWS
Brazil hopes COP30 in Amazon can unite world for climate action
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 13, 2025
Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis. ... more
DEMOCRACY
France unveils new government in political crisis
Paris (AFP) Oct 12, 2025
France's President Emmanuel Macron unveiled a new government on Sunday, after marathon talks to cobble together a cabinet and prevent the country from slipping deeper into a political crisis. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Tunisian activists urge closure of factory units after poisonings
Tunis (AFP) Oct 12, 2025
Activists in Tunisia on Sunday called for the closure of facilities at a chemical factory in Gabes, in the country's south, amid protests by local residents over dozens of cases of poisoning linked to the site. ... more
ICE WORLD
UK spearheads polar climate change research as US draws back
Harwich, United Kingdom (AFP) Oct 12, 2025
Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica next week to help advance dozens of climate change-linked science projects, as Western nations spearhead studies there while the United States withdraws. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Bangladesh army says arrest warrants against officers affecting morale
Dhaka (AFP) Oct 11, 2025
The Bangladesh army said Saturday that arrest warrants issued against senior officers had affected troop morale ahead of elections, but pledged to uphold justice amid rising tensions. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Survival of Europe's bees and butterflies at risk: IUCN
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Oct 11, 2025
The survival of Europe's wild pollinators is increasingly at risk, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said Saturday as it declared dozens of bee and butterfly species as threatened. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Philippines begins clean-up after powerful twin quakes
Manay, Philippines (AFP) Oct 11, 2025
Dazed survivors of a pair of major earthquakes in the southern Philippines awoke on Saturday to scenes of devastation, after hundreds of aftershocks rocked the region overnight. ... more
FIRE STORM
Questions loom over Albania's forests after devastating fires
Elbasan, Albania (AFP) Oct 11, 2025
As Albania recovers from a summer of devastating wildfires, locals and experts are eyeing a long road back to save its shrinking forests from intensifying disasters. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Venezuela's Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize - and dedicates it to Trump
Oslo (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who dedicated the award to the Venezuelan people - and to US President Donald Trump. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
At least 23 dead due to heavy rains in Mexico
Mexico City (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
At least 23 people have died in Mexico due to heavy rains this week, local authorities across the country said Friday. ... more
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WEATHER REPORT
Motorist dies as tropical storm hits French Caribbean island
Pointe-A-Pitre (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
A motorist was found dead after being swept away by floodwaters on Guadeloupe on Friday, the authorities said, as a tropical storm swept over the French overseas territory in the Caribbean. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Residents in southern Tunisia protest phosphate pollution
Gabes, Tunisia (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
Hundreds of people in southern Tunisia's Gabes on Friday protested to demand dismantling a local phosphate processing plant after reports of respiratory distress among residents. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Tech billionaire Thiel says Greta Thunberg servant of 'Antichrist'
San Francisco, United States (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has branded Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and critics of artificial intelligence as "legionnaires of the Antichrist" during a series of private lectures. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Maria Corina Machado: the face and fire of Venezuela's opposition
Caracas (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
Maria Corina Machado, a fearless activist with rock-star appeal, is the face of opposition to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's iron-fisted regime. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Eight killed as strong quakes strike southern Philippines
Mati, Philippines (AFP) Oct 10, 2025
Two powerful quakes struck off the southern Philippines on Friday, killing at least eight people and triggering tsunami warnings. ... more
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