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September 07, 2025
WATER WORLD
Ethiopia's multi-billion-dollar dam promises economic boost



Addis Ababa (AFP) Sept 5, 2025
Ethiopia's mega-dam on the Nile, being inaugurated on Tuesday, is expected to provide a huge boost to the economy and double electricity production in a country where nearly half the population lacks power. - Megastructure - The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is touted as the largest hydroelectric facility in Africa. The $4-billion megastructure stretches nearly two kilometres (just over a mile) across the Blue Nile near the Sudanese border and is expected to eventually hold 74 bil ... read more

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CLIMATE SCIENCE
'Sleep under the stars': hotel mess in Brazil ahead of UN meet
Belem, Brazil (AFP) Sept 5, 2025
With two months to go, the "COP30 Hotel," spruced up and renamed after the UN climate conference due to take place in the Amazonian city of Belem in November, has zero bookings. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Drought forces drastic water restrictions in S. Korean city
Seoul (AFP) Sept 5, 2025
An unprecedented drought has led a South Korean coastal city to significantly restrict water use in many people's homes, close public restrooms and scrap sports events, officials said Friday, underscoring the country's climate woes. ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Could humans become immortal, as Putin was heard telling Xi?
Paris (AFP) Sept 4, 2025
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have been recorded on a hot mic discussing how organ transplants and other medical advances could let humans live past 150 years - or even become immortal. ... more
WOOD PILE
Indonesia's delayed new capital risks 'white elephant' status
Nusantara, Indonesia (AFP) Sept 7, 2025
A year after it was inaugurated, Indonesia's would-be new capital Nusantara attracts tourists and construction workers, but most of its architecturally arresting presidential palace and freshly built avenues sit silent. ... more
WATER WORLD
Experts say great white shark likely killed Australian surfer
Sydney (AFP) Sept 7, 2025
Australian biologists said Sunday a great white shark measuring up to 3.6 metres (12 foot) likely killed a 57-year-old surfer off Sydney this weekend, as authorities stepped up surveillance for the predators. ... more
WATER WORLD
France, Switzerland agree on Rhone, Lake Geneva water management
Geneva Sept 4, 2025
France and Switzerland on Thursday signed two agreements on how to manage their shared waters of Lake Geneva and the River Rhone - an increasingly pressing issue as climate change takes its toll. ... more
WOOD PILE
Australia halts logging for koala haven on eastern coast
Sydney (AFP) Sept 7, 2025
Australia halted logging in a large stretch of woodland on the country's eastern coast Sunday to create a retreat for koalas and save the local population from extinction. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Wildfires producing 'witches' brew' of air pollution: UN
Geneva (AFP) Sept 5, 2025
Wildfires are releasing a "witches' brew" of pollutants that can end up wrecking air quality a continent away from the blaze, the UN's weather and climate agency said Friday. ... more

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FARM NEWS
China to impose temporary duties on EU pork
Beijing (AFP) Sept 5, 2025
China said Friday it would impose temporary anti-dumping duties on European Union pork imports, delivering another blow to shaky ties between the economic powerhouses as Brussels vowed to protect its producers. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
UK government looks to military sites to house migrants
London (AFP) Sept 7, 2025
The British government said on Sunday it was considering housing migrants on military sites, as anger grows among some sections of the public over a policy of accommodating asylum seekers in hotels. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
Spain's average August temperature matched 2024 record
Madrid (AFP) Sept 5, 2025
Spain's average temperature in August hit 25C, matching the national record set the same month last year, the national meteorological agency AEMET said Friday. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Rescue boat capsizes in Pakistan, killing five
Karachi (AFP) Sept 7, 2025
A boat rescuing people from floods in eastern Pakistan flipped over, killing a 70-year-old woman and four children, authorities said Sunday. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Powerful quake aftershocks cause more injuries in Afghanistan
Jalalabad, Afghanistan (AFP) Sept 5, 2025
A series of strong aftershocks from a deadly earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan at the weekend injured at least another 10 people and caused further damage, Taliban authorities said on Friday. ... more
FIRE STORM
Wildfires break out in Portugal, Spain; McConaughey unveils 'urgent' California fire film 'The Lost Bus'
Lisbon (AFP) Sept 6, 2025
Hundreds of firefighters battled fresh wildfires in Portugal and Spain on Saturday, civil protection authorities said, following a summer of devastating blazes in the region. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS
'Tears and pain' after deadly Sudan landslide
Cairo (AFP) Sept 6, 2025
In the remote mountain village of Tarasin in Sudan's western Darfur, three successive landslides struck without warning last week. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
At least 60 people dead in Boko Haram attack in northern Nigeria
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 7, 2025
More than 60 people were killed in overnight attacks by the jihadist group Boko Haram in the northern Nigerian state of Borno, local officials said. At least five of the people killed were soldiers. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Baghdad clashes kill six, including four police: ministry; Two killed after bridge collapses in Iraq: rescuers
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 7, 2025
Clashes between members of two local tribes in Iraq's capital Baghdad have killed at least six people, including four policemen who intervened in the violence, the interior ministry said on Sunday. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Trump amps up crackdown rhetoric with Chicago 'war' threat
Washington (AFP) Sept 6, 2025
President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to unleash his newly rebranded "Department of War" on Chicago, further heightening tensions over his push to deploy troops into Democratic-led US cities. ... more
GPS NEWS
USGS introduces first fully integrated national geologic map
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 01, 2025
In a major milestone for earth sciences, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has released its most comprehensive national-scale geologic map to date, offering an unprecedented view of the geology both ... more
FARM NEWS
Climate change is making rollercoaster harvests the new normal
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Sep 07, 2025
From corn chips to tofu, climate change is messing with the menu. A new global study led by the University of British Columbia shows that hotter and drier conditions are making food production ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
NOAA launches robotic hurricane research vessels
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 5, 2025
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched five small, uncrewed research vessels off the U.S. Virgin Islands to better understand how hurricanes develop and behave. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Global genome moonshot targets 150000 species in four years
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2025
Published in Frontiers in Science, the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) outlines an accelerated plan to build a digital DNA library of Earth's eukaryotes, aiming to safeguard biodiversity, bolster food ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2025
SATIM and ICEYE have jointly introduced Detect and Classify, a product designed to automate analysis of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery. The system identifies vessels, aircraft, and ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Spire wins NOAA pair of satellite weather data contracts totaling 13.7 million
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2025
Spire Global has secured two NOAA orders that together total $13.7 million, extending the company's role in supplying satellite-derived weather intelligence for U.S. government forecasting and resea ... more
WATER WORLD
50-plus archaeological sites on Easter Island could become submerged
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 5, 2025
Rising sea levels could flood more than 50 archaeological sites on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, by 2080 - including the iconic Ahu Tongariki, according to a new study from the University of Hawaii ... more
ICE WORLD
Glaciers in Tajikistan show signs of irreversible decline as snowfall drops
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Too little snowfall is now destabilizing some of the world's most resilient glaciers, according to new research led by the Pellicciotti group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA ... more
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CARBON WORLDS
Ocean heat surge weakens global carbon absorption
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Researchers from ETH Zurich and an international team report that record-breaking ocean temperatures in 2023 reduced the planet's capacity to absorb carbon dioxide. The oceans usually take up about ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Global study maps regions most threatened by ocean plastic pollution
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
As plastic waste grows into a critical global environmental challenge, Tulane University researchers have released the first worldwide evaluation of where plastics create the highest ecological dang ... more
FARM NEWS
USDA backs FAU led FogAg platform to advance precision farming
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
Arslan Munir, Ph.D., an associate professor in FAU's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has secured an $827,533 award from the United States Department of Agriculture's Natio ... more
ICE WORLD
Algal blooms shaped global carbon cycle during Antarctic Cold Reversal
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Sep 03, 2025
At the close of the last ice age, massive algal blooms in the Southern Ocean helped slow the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to new research from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). Th ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Former federal workers bring back climate portal killed by Trump
Washington (AFP) Sept 3, 2025
First came orders to scrub references to how climate change disproportionately harms marginalized communities. Then demands to erase mentions of the "Gulf of Mexico." ... more
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