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. Hegseth said in a post to social media Saturday that American forces conducted a kinetic strike against the vessel in international waters. He said three "narco-terrorists" were on board and all three were killed. /| Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Nov 2, 2025 - Suicide is a tragic epidemic among US military veterans, but a new documentary charts how psychedelic drugs offer a glimmer of hope to elite soldiers battling post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.| Terra Daily
Corvallis OR (SPX) Oct 30, 2025 - 2024 was the hottest year on record and likely the hottest in at least 125,000 years, according to an annual report issued by an international coalition led by Oregon State University scientists.| Terra Daily
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.| Terra Daily
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Oct 29, 2025 - Sinking land is quietly destabilizing urban infrastructure in India's largest cities, putting thousands of buildings and millions of people at risk, according to Virginia Tech scientists. Grou| Terra Daily
Gyeongju, South Korea (AFP) Oct 31, 2025 President Xi Jinping on Friday invited Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to China, in the first formal talks between the nations' leaders since 2017, before also holding first discussions with Japan's new premier. Canada's relations with China are among the worst of any Western nation but both are at the sharp end of Donald Trump's tariff onslaught, even after Xi and the US leader's deal T| Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 29, 2025 - With a U.S. Navy carrier strike group headed to the Caribbean to augment a naval armada there and President Donald Trump threatening not-so-covert operations and ground strikes against Venezuela, what is new?| Terra Daily
Athens (AFP) Oct 30, 2025 Greece on Thursday said it would invest 2.5 billion euros ($2.9 billion) over the next decade to tackle a mounting drought challenge threatening Athens and Thessaloniki, its two largest cities, and many of its islands. "It may snow, it may rain... (but) hope is not a strategy," said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. "We must be prepared for the worst possible scenario." With the southe| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 Peatlands, which cover only 3 percent of the planet's surface, are responsible for storing over 30 percent of the world's soil carbon, acting as important natural reservoirs for thousands of years. Researchers have found that an intense drought could result in peatlands releasing carbon at a rate nearly four times higher under warmer climate conditions. A recent study published in Science| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Sydney (AFP) Oct 27, 2025 An Australian freshwater Murray cod has surprised scientists by swimming a marathon 860 kilometres (530 miles) along a major river system - believed to be a record for the species. The fish, named Arnie after Australia's recently retired Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus, was first tagged in early 2022 in Mullaroo Creek, about 13 hours' drive west of Sydney, said Arthur Rylah Institute resear| Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 - Extreme weather events are already intensifying worldwide, and researchers warn they will worsen as the planet warms. Heavy rainfall, tropical cyclones, and heat waves are projected to grow stronger| Terra Daily
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. Yet genetically, we are related to almost no one. This contradiction sits at the heart of modern population genetics - a science that reveals how history, mathematics, and biology converge to dissolve individuality across time.| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
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 cr| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Brasilia (AFP) Oct 30, 2025 Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has fallen for the fourth straight year, the government said Thursday, a boost for the country just days before it hosts UN climate talks. Brazil is home to the largest share of the vast rainforest, which spans nine countries and is considered crucial in the fight against climate change. The National Institute for Space Research (INPE), which| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Mexico City (AFP) Oct 30, 2025 Mexico's navy on Thursday rescued 28 teenagers from a boat in the Pacific Ocean off its west coast, authorities said. The Sinaloa Attorney General's Office said the boat had set out from southern Mexico, near the border with Guatemala, with 27 passengers aged 14 to 17, and an 18-year-old. Their nationalities were not stated. The border between Mexico and Guatemala is a key crossing| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2025 - The head of the UN's flagship climate fund has announced a record-breaking year for approving projects in vulnerable countries, crediting red-tape-cutting reforms for the achievement that includes a major desalination project in Jordan.| Terra Daily
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2025 - The US military on Wednesday struck another boat in the eastern Pacific it claimed was trafficking drugs, killing four people, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said, bringing the death toll from Washington's controversial anti-narcotics campaign to at least 62.| Terra Daily
Miami (AFP) Oct 29, 2025 - To someday allow scientists to stay underwater conducting research for days on end, the UK-based company DEEP has designed Vanguard, a subsea human habitat.| Terra Daily
Kingston, Jamaica (AFP) Oct 26, 2025 - Hurricane Melissa, already a major category 4 storm, gathered steam Sunday as it took aim at Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, with forecasters predicting catastrophic flooding and urging residents to seek shelter immediately.| Terra Daily
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Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2025 - An overnight US strike on a boat alleged to be operated by a Venezuelan drug trafficking gang killed six people in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday.| Terra Daily
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 23, 2025 - Researchers from Rice University have demonstrated that Jupiter's initial expansion played a pivotal role in organizing the developing solar system. Using advanced hydrodynamic and dust-evolution si| Terra Daily
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 21, 2025 - Soil contamination continues to endanger ecosystems, agriculture, and human health worldwide. Traditional cleanup methods, while effective, remain energy-intensive and carbon-heavy, making long-term| Terra Daily
Madrid (AFP) Oct 23, 2025 - Spanish authorities on Thursday said they had found the body of a 56-year-old man who died after being swept away in floods in the eastern Valencia region last year, the country's deadliest such disaster in decades.| Terra Daily
Paris (AFP) Oct 21, 2025 - A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the theft of gold from the Natural History Museum in Paris, in one of several recent high-profile break-ins targeting French cultural institutions, a prosecutor said Tuesday.| Terra Daily
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2025 - Efforts to cool the planet by reflecting sunlight back into space may be far more difficult than previously imagined, according to new research from Columbia University scientists. Their analysis hi| Terra Daily
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Gabes, Tunisia (AFP) Oct 16, 2025 Ikram Aioua has seen her 12-year-old son rushed to the hospital three times in the past weeks for gas poisoning. Like thousands who have turned out to protest in her southern Tunisian city of Gabes, Aioua is demanding the closure of a nearby chemical factory, blaming it for a range of serious health issues. "I was in the classroom when I felt my throat burning and my head getting heavy,| Africa News
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 16, 2025 The Sahara Desert is one of the driest areas in the world. It gets just 3 inches of precipitation per year - one-tenth of the amount of Chicago's rain, sleet and snow. But by the second half of the 21st century, rising global temperatures could make the Sahara much wetter, according to UIC researchers. By that time, the North African desert could see 75% more precipitation than its histori| Africa News
Tunis (AFP) Oct 18, 2025 - Police in Gabes, Tunisia have arrested dozens of people in demonstrations against a chemical factory which locals blame for pollution and a range of health issues, a local campaign group and a lawyer said Saturday.| Terra Daily
Huehuetla, Mexico (AFP) Oct 15, 2025 - Mexican survivors of floods and landslides that killed at least 66 people last week have appealed for urgent aid, saying they are worried about disease outbreaks as rotting animal carcasses pile up in the mud.| Terra Daily
Yiwu, China (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 - Tariff fears are hurting World Cup merchandise orders at Shang Yabing's Chinese knitwear factory, where racks of scarves bear the logos of national teams from Ireland to Tanzania.| Terra Daily
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 11, 2025 - Human Rights Watch said Thursday Zambia must investigate the health fallout of a major toxic spill at a Chinese-owned mine dam after reports of risks from heavy metal poisoning.| Terra Daily
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| Terra Daily
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.| Terra Daily
Paris (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 - Fossil fuel and cement producers have contributed significantly to the growing number and intensity of climate-change-driven heatwaves, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature.| Terra Daily
London, UK (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 - New research from Aston University could transform how Uganda manages its biomass resources by providing community-level data instead of national averages. Scientists at the Energy and Bioprod| Terra Daily
Chung, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 31, 2025 - In a former classroom, now a makeshift relief camp, pregnant women take refuge from the floods that have ravaged eastern Pakistan, their bodies aching, eyes heavy with exhaustion and silent despair.| Terra Daily
New Haven CT (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years. It is a sto| Terra Daily
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 20, 2025 - Japanese technicians at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant have sent in remote-controlled robots to one of the damaged reactor buildings as part of preparations to remove radioactive debris.| Terra Daily
Sydney (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 - Australian mining giant BHP on Tuesday reported a bump in yearly profits, as China's appetite for copper helped to counter slumping prices for iron ore and coal. Chief executive Mike Henry| Terra Daily
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 - The discovery of a previously unknown Australopithecus species, found alongside the earliest known Homo fossils, is reshaping understanding of human evolution, according to new UNLV-led research in| Terra Daily
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 15, 2025 A team of Chilean scientists has sequenced the first complete genomes of the H5N1 avian influenza virus found in birds in Antarctica. The work, led by the University of Chile and the Chilean Antarctic Institute, was published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, marking a milestone in pathogen research on the frozen continent| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
Stockholm (AFP) Aug 15, 2025 - /> Swedish authorities on Friday urged businesses and 1.5 million residents in greater Stockholm to cut back on tap water for the next few weeks as unusually warm freshwater temperatures have led t| Terra Daily
Beijing (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 - Cases of chikungunya fever are rising in southern China, prompting local authorities to take measures to curb its spread.| Terra Daily
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Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2025 - Hundreds of National Guard troops might be stationed in two states and serve as a quick reaction force that could respond to riots and other civil unrest in U.S. cities.| Terra Daily
Washington (AFP) Aug 13, 2025 - When US President Donald Trump announced tariffs on almost all trading partners in April, Ben Knepler contacted the factory in Cambodia producing his company's outdoor furniture. Stop production, he ordered.| Terra Daily
Lisbon (AFP) Aug 9, 2025 - Portugal's Navy said Saturday it has increased patrols along the country's southern coast following the arrival of a migrant boat, a rare destination among migrant routes from North Africa to Europe.| Terra Daily
Palaia Fokaia, Greece (AFP) Aug 9, 2025 - In the municipality of Palaia Fokaia, an hour's drive south of Athens, a typical bucolic Greek landscape of olive groves and hamlets was transformed by a raging Friday wildfire into a dystopia of blackened land and incinerated homes.| Terra Daily
Gevgelija, Macedonia (AFP) Aug 6, 2025 - Deep in the rugged forests of North Macedonia, small-hydropower developers are facing off with activists who warn that a thirst for lucrative green energy contracts is threatening the country's rivers.| Terra Daily
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Stock markets rose Tuesday as investors grow increasingly confident the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next month, despite concerns about the US economy and Donald Trump's tariffs.| Terra Daily
Hanover NH (SPX) Aug 01, 2025 - As early humans spread from lush African forests into grasslands, their need for ready sources of energy led them to develop a taste for grassy plants, especially grains and the starchy plant tissue| Terra Daily
Miyun, China (AFP) Aug 5, 2025 - Beijing lifted a severe weather alert on Tuesday but warned residents to stay vigilant against natural disasters after authorities evacuated more than 82,000 people over fears of deadly floods in the Chinese capital.| Terra Daily
Tokyo (AFP) July 29, 2025 - A massive operation to remove hundreds of tonnes of radioactive debris from Japan's tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant has been delayed until at least 2037, the operator said Tuesday.| Terra Daily
Tokyo (AFP) July 19, 2025 - Dozens of bags of mildly radioactive soil collected from near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant were delivered Saturday to the Japanese prime minister's office, in an effort to show it is safe for reuse.| Terra Daily
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Washington (AFP) April 18, 2025 - The White House on Friday unveiled a revamped Covid-19 website that promoted the contentious theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese laboratory, framing it as the pandemic's true origins.| Terra Daily
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 11, 2025 - A deluge of disinformation about a flu-like virus called HMPV is stoking anti-China sentiment across Asia and spurring unfounded concerns of renewed lockdowns, despite experts dismissing comparisons with the Covid-19 pandemic five years ago.| Terra Daily
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Wuhan, China (AFP) Jan 22, 2025 - Built in just days as Covid-19 cases spiked in Wuhan in early 2020, the Huoshenshan Hospital was once celebrated as a symbol of the Chinese city's fight against the virus that first emerged there.| Terra Daily
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