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September 27, 2025
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 26, 2025
Preliminary radar images from the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission reveal the extraordinary capabilities of the most advanced Earth-observing radar satellite ever launched. The spacecraft, developed through a long-standing U.S.-India partnership, is now preparing for full science operations later this year. Launched by ISRO on July 30, NISAR is designed to provide unprecedented insights into natural hazards, agriculture, and climate change. Its first L-band synthetic aperture rad ... read more

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Morocco High Atlas whistle language strives for survival
Tilouguit, Morocco (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
In Morocco's High Atlas mountains, shepherds Hammou Amraoui and his son hardly need words to speak. Across peaks, they whistle at each other in a centuries-old language, now jeopardised by rural flight. ... more
WATER WORLD
China warns Papua New Guinea over Australian defence deal
Sydney (AFP) Sept 19, 2025
China cautioned Papua New Guinea against "undermining" its interests and sovereignty in signing a mutual defence pact with Australia widely seen as a counter to Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific. ... more
WATER WORLD
Con job? Climate change is my job, says island nation leader
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
US President Donald Trump may dismiss climate change as a "con job" - but for the leader of tiny St. Kitts and Nevis, its toll is unmistakable: land swallowed, homes battered, and livelihoods threatened. ... more
WATER WORLD
Nickel mining threatens Indonesia coral haven, NGOs warn
Jakarta (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
Nickel mining threatens one of the world's most important marine biodiversity and coral hotspots in Indonesia, despite the government revoking several permits, a report warned Thursday. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Dozens more Zambian farmers sue over toxic mining spill
Lusaka (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
More Zambian farmers have filed a fresh lawsuit against a Chinese mining company over a toxic waste spill, following a similar case earlier this month, court documents seen by AFP Thursday showed. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Is the EU on the retreat on climate?
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen tried to reassure the United Nations Wednesday that Europe "will stay the course" on its climate ambition. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Low bar, high hopes: China unveils new climate goals
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
China has announced a new climate action plan at a UN meeting - its first pledge to include absolute targets for cutting planet-warming gases - setting a goal of reducing emissions by 7-10 percent by 2035. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Salvadoran court clears anti-mining activists of civil war murder
San Salvador Sept 24, 2025
A court in El Salvador on Wednesday acquitted eight former guerrillas, including five anti-mining campaigners, of a civil war-era murder in a trial criticized by NGOs as politicized. ... more

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DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Hong Kong's coastal businesses pick up pieces after typhoon
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
As the storm warning for Super Typhoon Ragasa passed, Mark Cholewka returned to his stylish Hong Kong restaurant to be met by overturned tables and the pungent smell of seawater. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Planetary health check warns risk of 'destabilising' Earth systems
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
Humans are gambling the very stability of Earth's life support systems, scientists said Wednesday, warning that ocean acidity was yet another key planetary threshold to be breached. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
South China cleans up after powerful Typhoon Ragasa
Yangjiang, China (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China were clearing up Thursday after powerful Typhoon Ragasa crashed through Guangdong Province, ripping down trees, destroying fences and blasting signs off buildings. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Lithuania appoints pro-Ukraine government
Vilnius (AFP) Sept 25, 2025
Lithuania's new social-democrat-led government was appointed on Thursday and has pledged to keep investing massively in defence and supporting Ukraine, as well as seek to normalise relations with China. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Traces of life detected in Finnish crater shed light on origins of life on Earth
London, Canada (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
An international team of scientists, including Western University's Gordon Osinski, has for the first time dated the emergence of microorganisms inside a meteorite crater, demonstrating that life de ... more
EXO WORLDS
Simulations of Exoplanet Formation May Help Inform Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Melbourne FL (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ... more
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EARLY EARTH
Ancient hot springs reveal how microbes thrived before Earth gained oxygen
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Earth was once an anoxic planet where oxygen was toxic to life, and researchers are turning to Japan's rare iron-rich hot springs to better understand how early microbes survived. A study led by Fat ... more
ICE WORLD
85 hidden lakes discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Thanks to more than a decade of satellite measurements, scientists have uncovered 85 previously unknown subglacial lakes deep below Antarctica, dramatically expanding knowledge of the continent's hi ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Framework proposed to study planetary scale impact of life
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
An international team led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has introduced a new concept called Earth system engineering to better understand how organisms, including humans, have reshaped plane ... more
WATER WORLD
Ancient iron spheres reveal ocean carbon shortage in early Earth
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
Earth scientists at ETH Zurich have identified a natural archive of primordial ocean chemistry: tiny egg-shaped iron oxide stones known as ooids. These mineral grains, formed like rolling snowballs ... more
TECTONICS
Mantle heterogeneity mapped at unprecedented fine scale
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 25, 2025
A Japanese-led research team has provided the first direct measurement of the spatial scale of chemical heterogeneity in the Earth's upper mantle, revealing that mantle plume-driven variability exte ... more
FIRE STORM
Toxic homes a lasting legacy of Los Angeles fires
Altadena, United States (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
The fires that tore through Los Angeles nine months ago didn't destroy Karen Girard's home. But the smoke left her walls, floors and furniture infused with a toxic cocktail. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
He mocked renewables as a "joke," praised "clean, beautiful coal" and declared climate change the "greatest con job ever." ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years
Istanbul (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
Turkey is experiencing its worst drought in over half a century, with rainfall dropping by 27 percent compared to the last three decades and even more in some regions, according to data published this week. ... more
WATER WORLD
Cities face risk of water shortages in coming decades: study
Paris (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
Hotspots of water scarcity could emerge by the 2020s and 2030s across the Mediterranean, southern Africa, and North America, as climate change intensifies droughts, a new study said Tuesday. ... more
WOOD PILE
EU proposes new delay to anti-deforestation rules
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Sept 23, 2025
The EU said Tuesday it will seek a new one-year delay to sweeping anti-deforestation rules cheered by green groups but assailed by key trading partners from the United States to Indonesia. ... more
ROBO SPACE
Scientists urge global AI 'red lines' as leaders gather at UN
New York (AFP) Sept 22, 2025
Technology veterans, politicians and Nobel Prize winners called on nations around the world Monday to quickly establish "red lines" too dangerous for artificial intelligence to cross. ... more
WATER WORLD
17 killed in Taiwan after barrier lake bursts
Hualien, Taiwan (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
At least 17 people were killed when a decades-old barrier lake burst in Taiwan, government officials said Wednesday, after Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the island with torrential rain. ... more
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FROTH AND BUBBLE
Polluting Singapore ship's agent pays token damages to Sri Lanka
Colombo (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
A Singapore-registered ship's Sri Lanka agent paid $1 million out of $1 billion damages awarded for causing the island's worst pollution, a litigant told AFP Wednesday. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Typhoon Ragasa hits south China after killing 15 in Taiwan
Yangjiang, China (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
Fierce winds, pounding rain and rough seas battered southern China and Hong Kong on Wednesday as powerful Typhoon Ragasa churned toward millions of people in Guangdong Province after killing at least 15 in Taiwan. ... more
WATER WORLD
Seychelles votes amid concerns over hotel near marine reserve
Victoria, Seychelles (AFP) Sept 24, 2025
Citizens in the beach paradise of Seychelles vote this week in tightly fought elections amid concerns over a Qatari hotel complex being built near a world-renowned marine reserve. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
No pause for food delivery riders during Pakistan's monsoon
Lahore, Pakistan Sept 24, 2025
Abdullah Abbas waded through Lahore's flooded streets, struggling to push his motorcycle and deliver a food order on time. ... more
WIND DAILY
Floating wind power sets sail in Japan's energy shift
Goto, Japan (AFP) Sept 21, 2025
Close to a small fishing port in southwestern Japan, the slim white turbines of the country's first commercial-scale floating wind farm glimmer offshore, months before a key project in Tokyo's green-energy strategy begins. ... more
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