Global coral bleaching event expanding to new countries: scientists
By Lucie AUBOURG WASHINGTON (AFP) - The massive coral bleaching episode signaled by US authorities last month is expanding and…
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Environment
‘Danger behind the beauty’: more solar storms could be heading our way
By Daniel Lawler PARIS, May 18, 2024 (AFP) - Tourists normally have to pay big money and brave cold climates…
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Early forest fires prompt evacuations in Canada
MONTREAL, May 12, 2024 (AFP) - Thousands of people fled their homes Sunday in western Canada as hundreds of wildfires…
6 months ago
Pet dogs and strays suffer in Asia heatwave
By Sailendra Sil with Rose Troup Buchanan in Bangkok Soaring temperatures across Kolkata have brought life in much of the…
7 months ago
Indonesia volcano eruption shuts more airports, ash reaches Malaysia
Indonesia, May 1, 2024 (AFP) - Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano forced more than half a dozen airports to…
7 months ago
WHO says US keeping them updated on bird flu outbreak
GENEVA, April 30, 2024 (AFP) - The WHO said Tuesday it was being frequently updated by Washington about the…
7 months ago
Kenya delays schools reopening due to floods
NAIROBI, April 29, 2024 (AFP) - Kenya said Monday that it would postpone the reopening of schools by one week…
7 months ago
Cicada-palooza! Billions of bugs to blanket America
By Issam AHMED WASHINGTON, April 27, 2024 (AFP) - They're loud. They're sexually aroused. And for one special, cacophonous month…
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DR Congo accuses Apple of using ‘blood minerals’ from war-torn east
By Lucie PEYTERMANN The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo is accusing Apple of using "illegally exploited" minerals extracted…
7 months ago
155 killed in Tanzania as heavy rains lash East Africa
DAR ES SALAAM, April 25, 2024 (AFP) - At least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked…
7 months ago
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