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Early Earth may have had active plate tectonics far sooner than thought



Paris, France (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Researchers investigating the Hadean Eon, which lasted from 4.6 to 4.0 billion years ago, have uncovered signs that plate tectonics began far earlier than widely assumed. The era started with Earth's formation and a colossal Mars-sized impact that created the Moon, melting the planet's interior. Crust solidification occurred about 4.5 billion years ago, but subsequent tectonic activity has been debated. The dominant theory holds that during the Hadean, Earth existed in a "stagnant lid" state, with ... read more

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ICE WORLD
Comet debris signs found in Baffin Bay sediments linked to Younger Dryas cooling
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Analysis of Baffin Bay ocean sediments has uncovered geochemical evidence consistent with debris from a comet that may have triggered the Younger Dryas cooling event 12,800 years ago. Christopher Mo ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Lioness present in northeast C.Africa for first time in years; New species teem in Cambodia's threatened karst
Libreville (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
A conservation group says it has photographic evidence of the presence of a female lion in a national park in northeastern Central African Republic for the first time in six years. ... more
WOOD PILE
Brazil's Lula vetoes parts of environmental 'devastation bill'
Brasilia (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday vetoed some provisions of a bill that would have made it easier for companies to secure environmental permits, bowing to pressure from activist groups. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
A French sailor's personal 'Plastic Odyssey'
Paris Aug 7, 2025
Simon Bernard's private war on plastic pollution began in 2016. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
A year on, Ugandans still suffering from deadly garbage collapse
Kampala (AFP) Aug 6, 2025
When the giant landfill collapsed in Uganda's capital Kampala a year ago, Zamhall Nansamba thought she was hearing an aeroplane taking off. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Abidjan landfill transformed into city parkland
Abidjan (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
Beneath the fresh grass and brand-new infrastructure of Abidjan's Akouedo Park lie millions of tons of waste that for decades plagued locals' lives and health. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Brazil COP30 climate summit lodging too pricey for some nations
Paris (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
High prices for lodging may force small island states to slash the size of their delegations to the November COP30 climate summit in Brazil, a representative said Friday. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Hungarians protest with camels to raise alarm over drought
Budapest (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
A camel-led caravan of farmers, scientists and environmentalists marched through central Budapest on Thursday to raise awareness of desertification and demand that the government take action. ... more

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FROTH AND BUBBLE
UN plastic pollution treaty talks floundering
Geneva (AFP) Aug 9, 2025
Talks on forging a groundbreaking treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were floundering Saturday, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on what the proposed agreement should cover. ... more
FARM NEWS
France strikes down return of banned bee-killing pesticide
Paris (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
France's top constitutional authority on Thursday blocked a law that would allow the reintroduction of a pesticide virulently opposed by environmental groups. ... more
EPIDEMICS
New York declares total war on prolific rat population
New York Aug 9, 2025
New York is waging a war on multiple fronts to combat the near ubiquitous rats that plague city streets and the subways, leaving some residents afraid to let their children walk on sidewalks. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
US French satellite SWOT captures Kamchatka tsunami in unprecedented detail
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2025
Data from a joint NASA and CNES mission has provided valuable insights to refine tsunami forecasting models, potentially improving coastal safety worldwide. The Surface Water and Ocean Topogra ... more
FIRE STORM
France wildfire kills one as Spanish resort blaze 'stabilised'
Saint-Laurent-De-La-Cabrerisse, France (AFP) Aug 6, 2025
French firefighters on Wednesday battled to halt the spread of a wildfire in the south of the country that has left one person dead as emergency workers in Spain subdued a fire that had forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people from a resort. ... more
FIRE STORM
Greeks count cost of wildfire 'tragedy' near Athens; Massive French wildfire contained but 'not under control'
Palaia Fokaia, Greece (AFP) Aug 9, 2025
In the municipality of Palaia Fokaia, an hour's drive south of Athens, a typical bucolic Greek landscape of olive groves and hamlets was transformed by a raging Friday wildfire into a dystopia of blackened land and incinerated homes. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS
UAE rejects Sudan claim it destroyed Emirati plane full of mercenaries; Sudan's PM in Egypt on first foreign visit
Dubai (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
The United Arab Emirates rejected on Thursday an announcement from Sudan's armed forces saying they had destroyed an Emirati plane ferrying Colombian mercenaries into the country to back paramilitary rivals. ... more
PILLAGING PIRATES
Mexico's Sheinbaum says no to 'invasion' by U.S. military
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 9, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum won't allow U.S. troops to target drug cartels in Mexico that President Donald Trump has designated as terrorist groups. ... more
PILLAGING PIRATES
Trump may use military against drug cartels: Colombian president initiates dialogue with top cocaine gang
Washington (AFP) Aug 9, 2025
President Donald Trump is moving to target Latin American drug cartels with the military, US media said Friday, after Washington designated several narcotics trafficking groups as "terrorist" organizations earlier this year. ... more
DEMOCRACY
UK police arrest hundreds for backing banned pro-Palestine group
London (AFP) Aug 9, 2025
Police in London arrested 466 people Saturday for supporting Palestine Action at the latest and largest protest backing the group since the government banned it last month under anti-terror laws. ... more
OIL AND GAS
Turkmenistan's methane-spewing 'Gateway to Hell' loses its anger
Darvaza, Turkmenistan (AFP) Aug 6, 2025
People go to the "Gateway to Hell" gas crater in the middle of the Turkmenistan desert expecting an angry cauldron but are now coming away unimpressed. ... more
EARLY EARTH
Trilobite limb study reveals unexpected mobility and mating appendages
Los 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
EARTH OBSERVATION
Do you want to freeze a cloud? Desert dust might help
Zurich, 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
ICE WORLD
Greenland subglacial lake eruption reshapes surface ice landscape
Paris, 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
ICE WORLD
Deadly Indian Himalayan flood likely caused by glacier collapse, experts say
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
A deadly wall of muddy water that swept away an Indian Himalayan town this week was likely caused by a rapidly melting glacier exacerbated by the rising effects of climate change, experts said on Thursday. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
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
EARTH OBSERVATION
Defense Department opts to not end satellite data for storm forecasts
Washington 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
ABOUT US
Cold climate origins of primates challenge long held tropical forest theory
London, 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
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Jumbo journey as Indian elephant set to return home
New 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
ABOUT US
Scrumped fruit shaped ape evolution and human fondness for alcohol
London, UK (SPX) Aug 01, 2025
New findings from the University of St Andrews and Dartmouth College highlight how the habit of consuming fallen, fermented fruit-known as scrumping-has played a central role in great ape behavior a ... more
WATER WORLD
Solomon Islands bars China and Taiwan from top Pacific summit
Wellington (AFP) Aug 8, 2025
Pacific nation Solomon Islands has said it would exclude non-member nations from a key regional summit in September, a group that includes China, Taiwan and the United States. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Zambia rejects US claims of toxins after February mine spill
Lusaka (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
The Zambian government rejected as alarmist Thursday US government claims that dangerous pollution remained after a copper dam spill six months ago, saying there was no need to cause panic. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
China the world's biggest plastic producer
Geneva (AFP) Aug 7, 2025
Seven countries produced two-thirds of the four most common types of plastic in 2024, according to the British environmental consultancy Eunomia and the Zero Carbon Analytics a climate and energy research group. ... more
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