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Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate actionSydney (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 A remote Pacific nation selling passports to fund climate action has approved just six applicants since early this year, but officials said Thursday that interest in joining the low-lying, largely barren island is increasing. ... more 
Great Barrier Reef suffers most widespread bleaching on recordSydney (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 Australia's famed Great Barrier Reef has suffered its most widespread coral bleaching on record, according to a government report released Wednesday that warns the natural wonder is in dire health. ... more  
Chikungunya in China: What you need to knowBeijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 Cases of chikungunya fever are rising in southern China, prompting local authorities to take measures to curb its spread. ... more  
'Human presence': French volunteers protect sheep from wolvesVillebois-Les-Pins, France (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 Carrying staffs like shepherds, Sophie Morice-Couteau and Geoffroy Galliot inspect the nets of a sheepfold on a steep slope in the Baronnies massif, part of their daily mission to keep wolves away. ... more |
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Summer 2025 already a cavalcade of climate extremesParis Aug 5, 2025 Record heat, massive fires, deadly floods... August has barely begun, but the summer of 2025 is already marked by a cascade of destructive and deadly weather in the northern hemisphere. ... more  
Indian army searches for missing after deadly Himalayan flood; Torrential rains drench south China; Floods kill 6 in Myanmar border townNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 The Indian army brought in sniffer dogs, drones and heavy earth-moving equipment on Wednesday to search for scores of people missing a day after deadly Himalayan flash floods. ... more  
Natural disasters caused $135 bn in economic losses in first half of 2025: Swiss ReZurich (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 Natural disasters caused $135 billion in economic losses globally in the first half of 2025, fuelled by the Los Angeles wildfires, reinsurer Swiss Re said Wednesday. ... more  
France seeks to 'stabilise' wildfire raging in the southLagrasse, France (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 French firefighters said Thursday they were hoping to halt the country's biggest wildfire this summer that has left one person dead and destroyed several thousand hectares of land and dozens of homes in the south. ... more |
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Thousands in besieged Sudan city at 'risk of starvation': WFPPort Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 Thousands of families trapped in a besieged city in war-torn Sudan's west are at "risk of starvation", the World Food Programme warned on Tuesday. ... more |
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Super alcohol discovery reveals potential building block of cosmic lifeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 Researchers have successfully synthesized methanetetrol for the first time, unveiling a highly unstable molecule that could serve as a foundational component in the search for extraterrestrial life. ... more  
Rocket Lab launches Japanese radar satelliteWashington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2025 Rocket Lab launched a synthetic aperture radar satellite dubbed QPS-SAR-12 for the Japanese company IQS on Tuesday morning, part of a mission to build its constellation in low Earth Orbit. ... more 
Northern Territory aquifer faces rapid decline visible from spaceSydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 A major aquifer in Australia's Northern Territory is drying at a concerning pace, with losses now visible from satellite observations, according to a new study led by Griffith University. ... more 
Pacific algae invade Algeria beaches, pushing humans and fish awayAlgiers (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 At a beach near Algiers, brown algae native to the Pacific Ocean cover the golden sand, posing a threat to ecosystems native to the area and their stench repelling swimmers at the peak of summer. ... more |
Death of a delta: Pakistan's Indus sinks and shrinksKharo Chan, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 Salt crusts crackle underfoot as Habibullah Khatti walks to his mother's grave to say a final goodbye before he abandons his parched island village on Pakistan's Indus delta. ... more  |
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Argentine scientists lead oceanographic expedition in the S. AtlanticWashington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2025 Argentine scientists have identified about 40 marine species - many previously unknown to science - while leading one of the most significant oceanographic expeditions in the South Atlantic. ... more 
Water shortages spell trouble on Turkey's tourist coastCesme, Turkey (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 Ali Alyanak and his neighbours in Turkey's tourist hub Izmir now have to draw water from a shrinking aquifer 170 metres underground even as hotel pools remain full - a sign for many of the region's dire water crisis amid prolonged drought. ... more  
Plastic pollution 'grave and growing' health threat: LancetParis (AFP) Aug 4, 2025 Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognised danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday. ... more  
Record heatwave blasts northern VietnamHanoi (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 Northern Vietnam is sweltering under a blistering heatwave, with 17 places across seven provinces reporting record highs for the month of August and electricity demand spiking as people try to stay cool, authorities said Tuesday. ... more |
A new record high of 41.8C as 17 heat records broken across JapanTokyo (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 Japan logged two new heat records in a day on Tuesday, with the mercury hitting 41.6C and then 41.8C, the weather office said, warning temperatures may rise further still. ... more  
China's leaders take aim at 'pointless' meetings and 'bureaucratism'Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 China's top lawmakers are telling officials across the country to hold fewer meetings and give shorter speeches in a bid to root out "pointless formalities", state media reported on Wednesday. ... more  
Genetic traits behind hibernation may offer new hope for treating metabolic diseaseLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2025 New findings from the University of Utah Health suggest that the genetic adaptations enabling animals to hibernate may also lie dormant in the human genome - offering potential pathways to treat con ... more  
Myanmar junta air strike on ruby mine hub kills 13Yangon (AFP) Aug 2, 2025 A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-occupied ruby mining hub killed 13 people on Saturday, according to a resident and a spokesperson for an armed opposition group. ... more |
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Trilobite limb study reveals unexpected mobility and mating appendagesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 Scientists at Harvard University have reconstructed the movement and function of 500-million-year-old trilobite limbs, offering new insight into one of Earth's earliest arthropods. By analyzing 156 ... more  
Reindeer suffer as Finland swelters in record heatwaveHelsinki (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 A record-long heatwave in Finland has caused suffering and even deaths of reindeer, prompting alarm among herders as temperatures remained above 25C on Tuesday. ... more 
Body of missing man found on melting glacier after 28 yearsKhaplu, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 7, 2025 The family of a missing man whose body was discovered on a melting glacier in Pakistan after 28 years said Thursday its recovery had brought them some relief. ... more 
Do you want to freeze a cloud? Desert dust might helpZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 05, 2025 A new study shows that natural dust particles, swirling in from faraway deserts can trigger freezing of clouds in Earth's Northern Hemisphere. This subtle mechanism influences how much sunlight clou ... more |
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Greenland subglacial lake eruption reshapes surface ice landscapeParis, France (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 Using data from ESA's CryoSat and Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2, along with NASA's ICESat-2, researchers have uncovered a dramatic flood event in northern Greenland where pressurized meltwate ... more |
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China unveils decades spanning Landsat dataset to advance environmental research Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 30, 2025 China has released a comprehensive Landsat composite dataset covering nearly four decades of Earth observations. Spanning from 1985 to 2023, the new 30-meter resolution dataset introduces the first ... more 
Defense Department opts to not end satellite data for storm forecastsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 31, 2025 The U.S. Defense Department won't end the dispersal of key satellite weather data on Friday as planned. ... more  
Cold climate origins of primates challenge long held tropical forest theoryLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 06, 2025 Primates may have first emerged in chilly, seasonal environments around 66 million years ago rather than in warm tropical forests, according to new research from the University of Reading. Usi ... more  
Jumbo journey as Indian elephant set to return homeNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 An Indian elephant taken on an epic journey to a tycoon's giant zoo is expected to return home after protests by the religious community she came from, officials said Wednesday, following a court battle over the animal's welfare at the temple. ... more |
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