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November 03, 2025
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Biochar materials engineered from wood demonstrate mechanical strength comparable to steel



Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
A team at the University of Toronto has found that the internal structure of wood allows biochar to achieve hardness matching mild steel, depending on how the material is measured. Their research shows monolithic biochar - carbonized wood blocks that maintain natural architecture - exhibits a hardness that can vary by more than 28 times based on orientation. This breakthrough enables targeted creation of carbon materials for energy, filtration, and technical uses. Biochar, formed by heating biomas ... read more

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ABOUT US
Descended From Everyone, Related To No One
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
In the quiet arithmetic of ancestry, we all carry an impossible paradox. Every person alive today is, in a strictly genealogical sense, descended from everyone. ... more
FARM NEWS
Extracting fertilizer from air and water
Mainz, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2025
Nitrogen-based fertilizers are essential for modern agriculture, and compounds like ammonia and urea are also widely used in industry. However, their conventional production and use pose major envir ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Malaria parasites are full of wildly spinning iron crystals. Scientists finally know why.
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
Every cell of the deadly Plasmodium falciparum parasite, the organism that causes malaria, contains a tiny compartment full of microscopic iron crystals. As long as the parasite is alive, the crysta ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Sunlight and Seawater Break Down Synthetic Fabrics into Microfibers Polluting Oceans
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 30, 2025
A team of scientists from the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology conducted experiments to analyze how common polyester te ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
UAH Earth System Science Center researchers question world record for hottest temperature ever observed
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 01, 2025
A new study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) by researchers from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, cal ... more
PILLAGING PIRATES
U.S. kills three in latest strike against an alleged drug boat
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 2, 2025
The United States killed three people in its latest strike against alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
U.S. ordered all nonemergency personnel, family to leave Mali
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 30, 2025
The U.S. Department of State on Thursday ordered non-emergency employees and their family members to leave Mali, where the government is in armed conflict with al-Qaida-linked terrorists. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
Thousands evacuated as typhoon bears down on Philippines
Manila (AFP) Nov 3, 2025
Thousands were evacuated in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday, ahead of a typhoon due to make landfall in a region hit by some of the country's deadliest storms. ... more

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Afghanistan quake kills 20, injures over 300: health ministry
Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan (AFP) Nov 3, 2025
A strong earthquake killed at least 20 people in northern Afghanistan, authorities said Monday, just months after another deadly tremor that left the country reeling. ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
US says sending $3 mn post-hurricane aid to foe Cuba; Jamaica deaths at 28
Havana (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
The United States on Sunday announced $3 million in aid for Cubans impacted by powerful Hurricane Melissa, seeking to bypass the island's communist government with distribution via the Catholic Church. ... more
WATER WORLD
Only two weeks of water left in Tehran's main reservoir: official
Tehran (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
Tehran's main source of drinking water is at risk of running dry within two weeks, state media warned on Sunday, owing to a historic drought. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
'Rounded up': survivors say Sudan's RSF detains hundreds near El-Fasher
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
A young man from one of the towns outlying the western Sudanese city of El-Fasher, Hussein was one of hundreds of men and boys captured and held by paramilitary forces that have overrun the area. ... more
FARM NEWS
Vietnam flood death toll rises to 35: disaster agency
Hanoi (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
Record heavy rains and flooding in central Vietnam this week have killed 35 people, disaster management officials said Sunday, with five more still missing in the deluge. ... more
PILLAGING PIRATES
US strike on alleged Caribbean drug boat kills 3; Trump threatens Nigeria over Christian deaths
Washington (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
A US strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean killed three people on Saturday, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said, the latest such attack in international waters. ... more
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FROTH AND BUBBLE
India's cloud seeding trials 'costly spectacle'
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
India's efforts to combat air pollution by using cloud seeding in its sprawling capital New Delhi appear to have fallen flat, with scientists and activists questioning the effectiveness of the move. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
US not sending any high-level officials to COP30
Washington (AFP) Nov 1, 2025
The United States will not send any top officials to the COP30 climate talks in Brazil later this month, a White House official said Saturday, as President Donald Trump instead works to boost fossil fuels. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Tanzania president wins election landslide after deadly protests
Dar Es Salaam (AFP) Nov 1, 2025
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has won a landslide election victory, official results showed Saturday, after key candidates were jailed or barred from a vote that has triggered days of violent protests. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
India seizes endangered primates found in checked bag
Mumbai, India (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
Indian customs officers have arrested a plane passenger after discovering two endangered gibbons stuffed inside a checked bag, the latest animals seized from smugglers at Mumbai's airport. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Pillaged I.Coast nature reserve on the mend after crisis decade
Comoe National Park, Ivory Coast (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
Forest ranger Daouda Bamba is in no doubt about who the apex predator is in Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park, ravaged by war and unrest between 2002 and 2011. ... more
ICE WORLD
Explorers seek ancient Antarctica ice in climate change study
Cape Town (AFP) Nov 1, 2025
An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
As clock ticks down, Greece tries to clean up its act on waste
Corfu, Greece (AFP) Nov 3, 2025
Cell phone glued to his ear, Kosmas Vassilas watches his truck crews round up multi-coloured bins on the island of Corfu, where a groundbreaking recycling initiative is bucking the trend of Greece's anarchic waste disposal. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Prince William brings climate mission to Brazil ahead of COP30
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
Britain's Prince William arrives Monday in Rio de Janeiro for a visit focused on ideas to protect the planet, before flying to the Amazon rainforest to address global leaders at UN climate talks. ... more
FARM NEWS
Growing rice in the UK 'not so crazy' as climate warms
Ely, United Kingdom (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
Wearing large rubber boots, Nadine Mitschunas joyfully handled mature rice plants peeking through the water of her small plot growing in the fertile soil of eastern England. ... more
FARM NEWS
Camels replace cows as Kenya battles drought
Samburu, Kenya (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
"God, God, God, protect them," chanted two herders, their eyes following a dozen camels rushing toward acacia trees, oblivious to the dry riverbed in northern Kenya where it hasn't rained since April. ... more
WEATHER REPORT
21 dead, 30-plus missing in Kenya landslide: minister
Nairobi (AFP) Nov 1, 2025
At least 21 people died and more than 30 were still missing in a landslide on Saturday caused by heavy rains in western Kenya, the interior minister said. ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
50 dead as Caribbean digs out from Hurricane Melissa
Kingston, Jamaica (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
Jamaican officials announced plans Saturday to set up multiple field hospitals as it recovers from Hurricane Melissa, with the death toll numbering at least 50 across the Caribbean - and expected to rise. ... more
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AFRICA NEWS
New satellite images suggest mass killings persist in Sudan's El-Fasher
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Nov 1, 2025
New satellite imagery suggests that mass killings are likely continuing in and around the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, Yale researchers said, days after it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Nigeria urges Trump meeting after military action threat
Lagos (AFP) Nov 2, 2025
Nigeria on Sunday suggested a meeting between its president and US counterpart Donald Trump, after the US leader threatened military action over what he described as a threat to Nigerian Christians by jihadists. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
UN support for Morocco's plan for Western Sahara 'historic': King Mohammed VI
Rabat (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
Morocco's king on Friday lauded as "historic" a UN Security Council decision to support his country's plan for Western Sahara, a disputed territory that has provoked decades of conflict between Rabat and the Sahrawi independence movement Polisario, backed by Algeria. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
G.Bissau army says thwarted 'subversion' attempt, several officers arrested
Bissau (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
Guinea-Bissau's army announced Friday it had thwarted an "attempt to subvert the constitutional order" and arrested several senior military officers on the eve of the start of general election campaigning. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Trump urges scrapping key vote threshold to end shutdown
Washington (AFP) Oct 31, 2025
President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the "Nuclear Option" of scrapping the key 60-vote threshold required for the Senate to advance legislation, as Republicans face mounting pressure to end the US federal shutdown. ... more
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