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January 28, 2025
ICE WORLD
Denmark announces $2 bn Arctic security plan



Copenhagen (AFP) Jan 27, 2025
Denmark said Monday that it would spend 14.6 billion kroner ($2 billion) to bolster security in the strategic Arctic region near the United States and Russia. The announcement came after US President Donald Trump said he would "get Greenland", saying the autonomous Danish territory is needed for his country's "international security". The island and its mineral resources have become a prized target while melting ice in the Arctic has opened up new shipping routes around it. "We must face th ... read more

WATER WORLD
New Zealand reviews aid to Kiribati after diplomatic snub
Wellington (AFP) Jan 28, 2025
New Zealand is reviewing aid to the climate-threatened Pacific nation of Kiribati after a high-level diplomatic snub, the foreign minister's office said. ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
ZeroG may cause cancer in space but on Earth, it could help develop treatments
Morgantown WV (SPX) Jan 26, 2025
As space travel gains traction and astronauts spend increasing amounts of time in space, studying its effects on health has become increasingly critical. Is space travel truly safe? Far from i ... more
EPIDEMICS
China says 'extremely unlikely' Covid pandemic came from lab leak
Beijing (AFP) Jan 27, 2025
China said Monday it was "extremely unlikely" Covid-19 came from a laboratory, after the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
US defense chief says military will keep aiding 'mass deportations'
Washington (AFP) Jan 27, 2025
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday the military will keep assisting President Donald Trump's "mass" migrant deportations, as he arrived for his first formal day of work at the Pentagon. ... more
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WEATHER REPORT
Record January heat of almost 27C bakes Spain's Valencia
Madrid (AFP) Jan 27, 2025
Spain's Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia registered Monday its hottest January temperature of 26.9 degrees Celsius in records going back more than 150 years, the national weather agency said. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Britain, Canada respond to Belarus' 'sham' presidential election with sanctions
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 28, 2025
Britain and Canada have imposed sanctions targeting the regime of Belarus' dictator president, Alexander Lukashenko, following his disputed election over the weekend to a seventh term. ... more
WOOD PILE
Benin enlists voodoo to protect its precious mangroves
Gogotinkpon/Gogotinkpon (AFP) Jan 28, 2025
The banks and delta of the Mono River in Benin are home to mangrove swamps which harbour fish and rare wild birds - and some are deemed sacred. ... more
ABOUT US
Trump signs order to get 'transgender ideology' out of military
Aboard Air Force One (AFP) Jan 28, 2025
US President Donald Trump said Monday he had signed an executive order ridding the military of what he called "transgender ideology," in a potentially major setback for LGBTQ rights. ... more

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WATER WORLD
Marshall Islands guards 'treasures' with new marine sanctuary
Sydney (AFP) Jan 28, 2025
Marshall Islands declared on Tuesday its first national marine sanctuary, protecting a "pristine" expanse of tropical Pacific Ocean home to deep-sea sharks and green turtles. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Western France put on high flood alert after storm 'Herminia'
Rennes, France (AFP) Jan 27, 2025
France placed swathes of Brittany in the west of the country on red weather alert Monday as a violent storm brought flood levels not seen in decades. ... more
SINO DAILY
China travel peaks as millions head home for Lunar New Year
Beijing (AFP) Jan 25, 2025
Train stations and airports across China saw the biggest peak in travellers on Saturday ahead of the Lunar New Year, as millions of people returned home to spend the holidays with their families in an annual migration that is expected to be a record. ... more
ICE WORLD
Mega-iceberg drifts towards Antarctic penguin island
Paris (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
The world's biggest iceberg - more than twice the size of London - could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it risks disrupting feeding for baby penguins and seals. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Sudan army breaks paramilitary siege on Khartoum HQ, reclaims oil refinery
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
The Sudanese army said Friday it broke a siege of its headquarters in Khartoum by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which had encircled it since war broke out in April 2023. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
French city Nice limits big cruise ships
Nice, France (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
The mayor of Nice issued Friday an order limiting visits large cruise ships to avoid overtourism in the French Riviera city. ... more
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UN urges Thailand not to deport Uyghurs to China
Geneva (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
The UN indicated Friday it was urging Thailand not to send dozens of detained Uyghurs to any country where they risk "significant" harm, after reported plans to deport them to China. ... more
SUPERPOWERS
Pandas, like Trump, are back in Washington
Washington (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
Move over President Trump - the newest stars in Washington are two giant pandas who made their public debut on Friday in front of hundreds of adoring fans. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Paraguayan orchestra turning trash into tunes stage London show
London (AFP) Jan 27, 2025
Just two years ago, Lucas Cantero knew nothing about playing music. ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Oxford report shows carbon storage can thrive without government billions
London, UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2025
Oxford Net Zero and Carbon Balance researchers highlight risks in the UK's carbon capture and storage (CCS) strategy and propose an innovative mandate for fossil fuel producers to fund CO2 storage, ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Bangkok air pollution forces 352 schools to close
Bangkok (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
Air pollution in the Thai capital forced more than 350 schools to close on Friday, city authorities said, the highest number in five years. ... more
FARM NEWS
Bamboo farm gets chopping for US zoo's hungry new pandas
Front Royal, United States (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
On a snow-blanketed field in Virginia, a handful of workers were silent but for the groan of a chainsaw chopping through bamboo - a delicacy for their furry clients down the road in the US capital of Washington. ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Lesotho's king pitches green energy to Davos elites
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 22, 2025
Lesotho's King Letsie III has embarked on an ambitious mission in snowy Davos, where global powerbrokers have converged, to make a royal pitch: invest in his small African nation's green transition. ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Solar power surpasses coal in EU for first time
Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2025
Solar overtook coal in the European Union's electricity production in 2024, with the share of renewables rising to almost half the bloc's power sector, according to a report released Thursday. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
242 mn children's schooling disrupted by climate shocks in 2024: UNICEF
United Nations, United States (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
Extreme weather disrupted the schooling of about 242 million children in 85 countries last year - roughly one in seven students, the UN children's agency reported Thursday, deploring what it said was an "overlooked" aspect of the climate crisis. ... more
WATER WORLD
Drinking water in many French cities contaminated: study
Paris (AFP) Jan 23, 2025
A type of "forever chemical" linked to health problems and birth defects has been found in the tap water of many French cities and towns including Paris, according to a study released on Thursday. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Indonesia landslide death toll rises to 25
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
The death toll from a landslide on Indonesia's main island of Java rose to 25 as rescuers found three more bodies on Friday, a search and rescue agency official said. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Sudan army chief visits HQ after recapture from paramilitaries
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Jan 26, 2025
Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the complex, which paramilitaries had encircled since the war erupted in April 2023. ... more
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DEMOCRACY
Tractors, forests, nuclear weapons: Five things about Belarus
Minsk (AFP) Jan 26, 2025
Belarus is holding a presidential election on Sunday that will certainly secure another five-year mandate for Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for over three decades and crushed all opposition. ... more
WHALES AHOY
Scores of dying dolphins wash ashore beach in Somalia
Mogadishu (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
Scores of dead and dying dolphins have washed ashore on a beach in Somalia, local officials said Friday, with horrified residents saying they had never witnessed anything like it. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Despite truce, Lebanese from devastated Naqura cannot go home
Naqura, Lebanon (AFP) Jan 24, 2025
All signs of life have disappeared from the bombed-out houses and empty streets of the Lebanese border town of Naqura, but despite a fragile Hezbollah-Israel ceasefire that has held since November, no one can return. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Director of apocalyptic Sundance film lost home in LA fires
Park City, United States (AFP) Jan 23, 2025
Driving up to the Rocky Mountains for the Sundance premiere of her new movie would be a joyful experience for Meera Menon - if she weren't leaving behind the scorched rubble of her Los Angeles home, where much of it was filmed. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Italy defends expulsion of wanted Libya police chief
Rome (AFP) Jan 23, 2025
Italy's government said Thursday a Libyan police chief arrested on a war crimes warrant was flown home after a court found no basis to detain him - and he was too dangerous to remain. ... more
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