24/7 News Coverage
September 08, 2025
CARBON WORLDS
Treat carbon storage like 'scarce resource': scientists
Paris (AFP) Sep 03, 2025
The amount of carbon dioxide that can be stored underground is vastly overestimated, new research said Wednesday, challenging assumptions about the "limitless" potential this approach holds to reducing global warming. ... more
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. ... 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
Earth wobble measured with unmatched precision by ring laser
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 07, 2025
The Technical University of Munich has achieved a breakthrough in monitoring the Earth's axis, recording its subtle wobbles with a precision unmatched by previous instruments. Results of a 250-day e ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Hidden chemistry of Earth core revealed through freezing process
London, UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2025
A new study by researchers from Oxford, Leeds, and University College London has uncovered fresh insights into Earth's core chemistry by showing how crystallisation became possible millions of years ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Second Meteosat Third Generation Imager completes thermal testing ahead of Ariane 2 launch
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2025
The second Meteosat Third Generation Imager, MTG-I2, has cleared a key milestone in its preparation for launch after completing thermal vacuum testing at Thales Alenia Space's cleanroom facilities i ... 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
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
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
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
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
ICE WORLD
Sweden's Sami fear for future amid rare earth mining plans
Kiruna, Sweden (AFP) Sept 8, 2025
Sweden's indigenous Sami fear they will lose their livelihood and culture if plans go ahead to mine a large rare earths deposit located on their traditional reindeer grazing grounds in the far north. ... 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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