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World's first commercial CO2 'graveyard' opens in NorwayOslo (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 The world's first commercial service offering carbon storage off Norway's coast has carried out its inaugural CO2 injection into the North Sea seabed, the Northern Lights consortium operating th ... more  
IBM and NASA launch Surya AI model to forecast solar storms and safeguard technologyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 IBM and NASA have introduced Surya, an open-source foundation model designed to interpret high resolution solar data and improve space weather forecasting. The system, trained on NASA's Solar Dynami ... more  
Healthy mouse offspring born from space preserved stem cellsKyoto, Japan (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 A Kyoto University team has demonstrated that cryopreserved mouse spermatogonial stem cells stored aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for six months can still produce healthy offspring aft ... more  
CO2 increase to reshape geomagnetic storm impacts on satellitesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Rising carbon dioxide levels in Earths upper atmosphere will alter how geomagnetic storms influence satellite operations, according to new research from the U.S. National Science Foundation National ... more |
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Geespace expands GEESATCOM network with launch of 11 new satellitesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 18, 2025 On August 9, 2025, Chinese aerospace company Geespace completed its fourth GEESATCOM orbital deployment, launching 11 satellites from waters off Rizhao, Shandong Province, aboard a single rocket. Al ... more  
Close-up views of NASA's DART impact to inform planetary defenseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying t ... more  
Maldives revokes shark fishing ban after decadesMale, Maldives (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 The Maldives, a luxury holiday destination and top diving spot in the Indian Ocean, will lift a decades-old ban on shark fishing, the president's office said on Wednesday. Sharks were once t ... more  
Brazil court restores Amazon-protecting soy moratoriumRio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 A Brazilian court has reinstated a pact between commodities traders not to buy soybeans grown in deforested areas of the Amazon, a week after it was struck out as anticompetitive. A federal ... more |
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FEMA employees suspended over letter critical of Trump adminWashington (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 The Trump administration on Tuesday suspended several employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after they publicly expressed outrage over the agency's leadership, according ... more |
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Floods, landslides kill at least 30 in India's Jammu regionSrinagar, India (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 30 people in India's Himalayan region of Jammu and Kashmir, officials and local media said Wednesday. An intense monsoon r ... more 
Landslides triggered by Typhoon Kajiki kill two in ThailandBangkok (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Landslides caused by heavy rain from Typhoon Kajiki killed two people and injured 10 in Thailand on Wednesday, provincial officials said, as authorities warned of more torrential rain and flash ... more 
Pakistan's monsoon misery: nature's fury, man's mistakeIslamabad (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Floodwaters gushing through mountain villages, cities rendered swamps, mourners gathered at fresh graves - as Pakistan's monsoon season once again delivers scenes of calamity, it also lays bare ... more 
Rain swamps India's Jammu region with extensive floodsNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 Fierce floods swamped the Jammu area of Indian-administrated Kashmir on Tuesday as intense monsoon rainstorms in the Himalayan region caused widespread chaos, sweeping away bridges and swamping ... more |
 
Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35C or moreTokyo (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Tokyo experienced a record 10 consecutive days of temperatures 35C or above, the weather office said Wednesday, after the country sweltered through its hottest ever June and July. Heatwaves ... more  |
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Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35C or moreTokyo (AFP) Aug 27, 2025 Tokyo experienced a record 10 consecutive days of temperatures 35C or above, the weather office said Wednesday, after the country sweltered through its hottest ever June and July. Heatwaves ... more 
Typhoon death toll rises in Vietnam as downed trees hamper rescuersVinh, Vietnam (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 The death toll from Typhoon Kajiki rose to three in Vietnam on Tuesday, as rescue workers battled uprooted trees and downed power lines and widespread flooding brought chaos to the streets of th ... more  
Spain calls wildfires one of its worst disasters in yearsMadrid (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 The Spanish government on Tuesday described wildfires that have swept the country as one of the country's worst environmental disasters in years, as it approved relief measures for affected area ... more 
'The marshes are dead': Iraqi buffalo herders wander in search of waterChibayish, Iraq (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq's southern wetlands, but with persistent drought shrinking marshland where they feed and decimating the herd, his mi ... more |
 
Residents of hunger-racked Myanmar region say junta air strike kills 12Mrauk U, Myanmar (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 A Myanmar junta air strike on a rebel-held town in the country's hunger-ravaged west killed at least 12 people, witnesses of the overnight bombing said on Tuesday. Rakhine state has been blo ... more  
California parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicideSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 The parents of a 16-year-old California boy who died by suicide have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company's ChatGPT chatbot provided their son with detailed suicide instructions ... more 
1 in 4 people lack access to safe drinking water: UNGeneva (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal coverage was moving nowhere ne ... more  
Sci-fi skies: 'Haboob' plunges Phoenix into darknessWashington (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 A massive wall of dust swept through Phoenix, plunging the southwest US city into near-total darkness, grounding flights, forcing motorists off the road and cutting power to thousands. The g ... more |
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India to probe giant zoo run by son of Asia's richest personNew Delhi (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 India's Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into allegations of illegal animal imports and financial misconduct at a vast private zoo set up by the son of Asia's richest person. Vanta ... more 
FEMA employees bash Trump admin on Hurricane Katrina anniversaryWashington (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 Over 180 current and former employees of the US Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) expressed outrage on Monday at Trump administration policies, in an open letter marking the twentieth a ... more
Typhoon Kajiki lashes Vietnam, killing one as thousands evacuateVinh, Vietnam (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 Vietnam's central belt was lashed by Typhoon Kajiki on Monday, with at least one person killed by deluges and gales howling more than 130 kilometres per hour, as tens of thousands of residents w ... more  
Record drought in Europe, Mediterranean in early August: monitorParis (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was affected by drought in the first ten days of August, according to an AFP analysis on Monday of European Drought Observatory (EDO) data. ... more |
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Portugal counts the cost of its biggest ever forest fire, Spain hopeful of dousing remaining wildfiresLisbon (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 Nearly 1,000 firefighters remained mobilised Monday in central Portugal to prevent flare-ups of what authorities said was the biggest forest fire the country has seen - ravaging an area more th ... more |
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'Restoring dignity': Kenya slum exchange offers water for plasticNairobi (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 Using a crutch to bear her weight, 85-year-old Molly Aluoch trudges from her mud-walled room on the outskirts of a sprawling Nairobi slum, shouldering a sack of used plastic to exchange for a sh ... more 
Egyptian farmers behind world's perfumes face climate fight aloneShubra Balula, Egypt (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, his basket has felt lighter and th ... more  
Trump clashes with Democrats as he expands National Guard plansWashington (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 Donald Trump threatened to deploy National Guard troops Sunday to yet another Democratic stronghold, the Maryland city of Baltimore, as the US president seeks to expand his crackdown on crime an ... more 
Spain heatwave was 'most intense on record' as Fires ravage an ageing rural SpainMadrid (AFP) Aug 24, 2025 A 16-day heatwave Spain suffered this month was "the most intense on record", the national meteorological agency said on Sunday. With forest fires still burning across northern and western S ... more |
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