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From drought to floods, water extremes drive displacement in Afghanistan
Aug 17, 2025 (AFP)
Next to small bundles of belongings, Maruf waited for a car to take him and his family away from their village in northern Afghanistan, where drought-ridden lan...
With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalisation shifts into high gear
Aug 15, 2025 (AFP)
When Murat Draman went scuba diving off the coast of the southern Turkish province of Antalya and saw the temperature in the depths was pushing 30C, it didn't s...
As the world churns - a history of ecosystem engineering in the oceans
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
It is a story of world-building on a grand, yet granular, scale, accomplished by a succession of marine animals that burrowed and tunneled their way through hea...
Stockholmers told to cut back on tap water due to supply issue
Aug 15, 2025 (AFP)
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 ...
Rising Himalayan river flows present mixed blessings for regional communities
Aug 15, 2025 (SPX)
High Mountain Asia, spanning the Himalayas, Hindu Kush and major river systems like the Yellow and Indus, supplies water to about two billion people. The rivers...
Water shortages plague Beirut as low rainfall compounds woes
Aug 14, 2025 (AFP)
People are buying water by the truckload in Beirut as the state supply faces its worst shortages in years, with the leaky public sector struggling after record-...
Solomon Islands says China not influencing diplomatic decisions
Aug 14, 2025 (AFP)
Solomon Islands defended its move to bar some partners from an influential summit of South Pacific leaders, brushing aside claims on Thursday of a looming split...
Australia hails breakthrough in Vanuatu security talks
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
A delegation of Australian ministers ironed out the deal during negotiations on the slopes of Vanuatu's Mount Yasur, a steam-belching active volcano. Australia ...
Parisians cool off in the Seine after century-old ban ended
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
Motivated by a sweltering heatwave, Parisians have been queueing up to take a dip in the river Seine after it reopened to bathers following a ban dating back to...
Oh carp: UK's Lammy on the hook after fishing with Vance without licence
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
Britain's foreign minister David Lammy has referred himself to the environment watchdog after going fishing in a carp pond with US Vice President JD Vance witho...
'Water lettuce' chokes tourism, fishing at El Salvador lake
Aug 13, 2025 (AFP)
The waters of El Salvador's Lake Suchitlan are normally busy with fishermen and tourists -- but this year, you'd be forgiven for thinking it isn't a lake at all...
Solomon Islands bars China and Taiwan from top Pacific summit
Aug 08, 2025 (AFP)
Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele said earlier this week he would defer a meeting of the Pacific Island Forum's non-member "dialogue partners". Manele's decision h...
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
Aug 07, 2025 (AFP)
Pacific microstate Nauru has said it hopes to drum up more than US$5 million in the "climate resilience citizenship" programme's first year, which would equate ...
Cook Islands and US strike deep-sea minerals agreement
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
Huge areas of seabed around the Cook Islands are carpeted in polymetallic nodules, lumpy rocks studded with rare earths and critical minerals such as cobalt, ni...
England faces 'nationally significant' water shortfall
Aug 06, 2025 (SPX)
'Not backing down': activists block hydro plants in N.Macedonia
Aug 06, 2025 (AFP)
For over a month, protesters have blocked roads into Hydro Dosnica's remote construction sites on Mount Kozuf, where two small hydroelectric power plants are pr...
Northern Territory aquifer faces rapid decline visible from space
Aug 06, 2025 (SPX)
The Cambrian Limestone Aquifer (CLA), a vast network of groundwater that sustains rivers, communities, farms, and ecosystems across the NT, has been in decline ...
Great Barrier Reef suffers most widespread bleaching on record
Aug 05, 2025 (AFP)
Scientists documented the "most spatially extensive" bleaching since records began almost 40 years ago, driven by sweltering ocean temperatures in 2024 that tri...
Argentine scientists lead oceanographic expedition in the S. Atlantic
Aug 05, 2025 (UPI)
Aboard the research vessel Falkor (too) and using advanced technology, the team is exploring the Mar del Plata Submarine Canyon, uncovering untouched habitats, ...
Water shortages spell trouble on Turkey's tourist coast
Aug 05, 2025 (AFP)
"Our parents used to draw water from a depth of eight to nine metres, but now we have to go down to 170 metres (560 feet)," said Alyanak, the 39-year-old villag...
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