Stockholm (AFP) Oct 1, 2025 A youth-led student group and a human-rights lawyer that took the issue of climate to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) received the Right Livelihood prize on Wednesday, dubbed an "alternative Nobel". The prize also honoured Sudan's humanitarian aid network Emergency Response Rooms, as well as a Burmese anti-corruption group and a Taiwanese champion of digital democracy. Frustrate| Africa News
Windhoek (AFP) Sept 29, 2025 A massive fire that has scorched through more than a third of Namibia's best-known national park has been contained, the environment minister said Monday. The blaze at Etosha National Park, one of Africa's largest game reserves, broke out on September 22 and spread rapidly due to high winds and parched vegetation. It forced the government to deploy 500 soldiers on Sunday to help contain| Africa News
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. "The whistle language is our telephone," joked Hammou, 59, the elder of a family known for the tradition in Imzerri, a hamlet in the remote commune of Tilouguit, about a two-hour drive from t| Africa News
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. Australia and Papua New Guinea this week agreed on the text of a deal which will see the countries commit to defending each other from armed attacks. Asked about the deal, a spokesperso| Africa News
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. The spill occurred in February when a waste storage facility burst near the town of Kitwe, in the heart of Zambia's copper belt, releasing millions of litres of acidic mining residue into the envir| Africa News
London (AFP) Sept 25, 2025 Economic growth in southeast Europe will next year face strains from US tariffs, increased competition from China and government budget pressures, Europe's development bank forecast Thursday. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development slightly downgraded its growth forecast for all its regions in 2026, which for the first time takes into account some sub-Saharan African nations.| Africa News
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. Voting in the Indian Ocean archipelago runs from Thursday to Saturday. Seychelles has the highest wealth per capita in Africa - around $18,000 according to the World Bank. But it lies on a key drug smuggl| Africa News
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. Scientists have established that climate change is making droughts longer, stronger and more frequent, but less well understood is when and where these extreme dry conditions could trigger acute shortage| Africa News
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 A multinational treaty to protect vast expanses of the world's oceans is finally set to become law in January 2026, with environmentalists hailing its enactment Friday as crucial to safeguarding the marine ecosystems. The move by Morocco and Sierra Leone to join the UN treaty on the high seas clinched the threshold of at least 60 ratifications needed to enact it as international law. Th| Africa News
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
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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
New York Aug 9, 2025 New York is waging a war on multiple fronts to combat the near ubiquitous rats that plague city streets and the subways, leaving some residents afraid to let their children walk on sidewalks. Faced with an overwhelming and ever-growing problem, officials have moved beyond gassing burrows to suffocate rodents and are now using high-tech mapping tools to try and sterilize the population. A| Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
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
Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 1, 2025 - Stock markets fell Friday as Donald Trump announced tariffs on dozens of trading partners ahead of a self-imposed deadline, offsetting strong earnings from tech giants.| 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
Tacugama, Sierra Leone (AFP) July 30, 2025 - Bala Amarasekaran has never felt like running his world-renowned sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees in Sierra Leone was truly work, having come to his calling only after several unexpected twists of fate.| Terra Daily
Belgrade (AFP) July 30, 2025 - As blistering summer heat sweeps across the Balkans, poorly managed and illegal dumpsites are bursting into flames, sparking wildfires and smothering towns and cities with toxic smoke.| Terra Daily
Kafr Malik, Palestinian Territories (AFP) July 20, 2025 - From his monitoring station on a remote hill in the occupied West Bank, water operator Subhil Olayan keeps watch over a lifeline for Palestinians, the Ein Samiyah spring.| Terra Daily
Beijing (AFP) July 30, 2025 - China's commerce minister welcomed US investment during talks with an American business delegation on Wednesday, a day after the latest round of trade talks between Beijing and Washington ended without a deal.| Terra Daily
Stockholm (AFP) July 28, 2025 - Chinese and US officials wrapped the first day in a fresh round of talks in Stockholm on Monday, with the world's top two economies looking to extend a fragile trade truce in the face of President Donald Trump's global tariff war.| 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
Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) July 29, 2025 - The Los Angeles wildfires drove insured natural disaster losses in the first half of the year to their highest level since Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011, German reinsurance giant Munich Re said Tuesday.| Terra Daily
Paris (AFP) July 25, 2025 - The world's top court may not be able to compel polluting states to halt planet-warming emissions, but experts say its momentous climate decision gives potent legal and political firepower to countries and campaigners on the frontlines.| Terra Daily
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Athens (AFP) July 24, 2025 - As temperatures inched towards 40C in Athens, a vegetable seller spontaneously handed a bottle of water to street musician Anna Gardere Nikolaki, a regular at this Athens food market.| Terra Daily
Bissau (AFP) July 13, 2025 - The Bijagos Archipelago off the coast of west Africa was declared a World Heritage site by the UN's cultural agency on Sunday, in recognition of its exceptional biodiversity and rich local traditions.| Terra Daily
Washington (AFP) July 22, 2025 - Major social media platforms are enabling and profiting from misinformation around extreme weather events, endangering lives and impeding emergency response efforts, a research group said Tuesday.| Terra Daily
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Paris (AFP) July 5, 2025 - The Seine, which played a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics, again takes centre stage in the capital this summer with the opening of three bathing sites.| Terra Daily
Geneva (AFP) June 27, 2025 - All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said Friday, following an inconclusive four-year investigation that was hamstrung by crucial information being withheld.| 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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