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Philippines, Japan to hold security talks next month
Jun 28, 2024 (AFP)
Japanese Defence Minister Minoru Kihara and Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa will discuss "bilateral and defence and security issues affecting the region" at the ...
Panama Canal agency warns water shortage is not over
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
"The waterway continues to face the impact of a prolonged dry season from this past year that limited the capacity of daily passages through the canal," the ACP...
UNICEF says deal agreed with Israel to boost Gaza water supply
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
"UNICEF confirms an agreement (with Israel) was reached to re-establish the medium voltage feeder power line for the Southern Gaza Desalination Plant," said Jon...
Norway designates zones for contested deep-sea mining
Jun 27, 2024 (AFP)
Already Western Europe's largest oil and gas producer, Norway could become one of the first countries to authorise seabed mining, insisting on the importance of...
After a century away, sturgeons return to Swedish waters
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
In the opening act, 100 young sturgeons -- transferred from a farm in Germany -- were introduced into the waters of Gota alv. "To be a person who has the possib...
Australia pushes Solomons to rely on Pacific nations for security
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
The Solomons leader was visiting Australia as part of a three-nation tour that will also take him to China and Japan. It is Manele's first official internationa...
'Urgent' for Australia to protect Great Barrier Reef: UNESCO
Jun 25, 2024 (AFP)
In a draft decision, UNESCO also asked Australia to submit an update on protection efforts early next year, but stopped short of recommending the reef be placed...
Bleaching affects 50 percent of marine park reefs in Malaysia
Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)
The assessment was made after a study conducted between April and June, it said in a statement Sunday. Severe or prolonged heat stress leads to corals dying off...
Solomons PM to visit China to 'reaffirm' ties following security discussions with Australia
Jun 24, 2024 (AFP)
Solomons Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele is heading to China following a week-long trip to Australia, his office said in a statement received on Monday. The Paci...
Italy's Capri lifts tourist ban as water shortage resolved
Jun 22, 2024 (AFP)
Capri's mayor, Paolo Falco, said the ban was "revoked" after a technical issue preventing the arrival of water from the mainland was fixed. The ban was announce...
Solomons PM to discuss security ties in Australia
Jun 21, 2024 (AFP)
Solomons Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele will visit Canberra and Queensland on his week-long trip, Australian officials said. It will be his first visit to Austr...
Hawaii agrees to 'historic' settlement in youth climate case
Jun 21, 2024 (AFP)
Thirteen young people from across the islands brought the case in June 2022, arguing that their constitutional rights to a life-sustaining climate were being vi...
NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn't Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss
Jun 18, 2024 (SPX)
Declining water levels in the Great Salt Lake and Lake Mead have been testaments to a megadrought afflicting western North America since 2000. But surface water...
Rare protests in northern Algeria over water shortage
Jun 17, 2024 (AFP)
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had vowed to address the issue by the Eid al-Adha holiday which began Sunday. According to several social media accounts, demonst...
Water crisis batters war-torn Sudan as temperatures soar
Jun 16, 2024 (AFP)
"Since the war began, two of my children have walked 14 kilometres (nine miles) every day to get water for the family," Issa, a father of seven, told AFP from N...
Chinese Premier Li urges 'shelving differences' with Australia
Jun 15, 2024 (AFP)
Li -- the second most powerful man in China after President Xi Jinping -- touched down in Adelaide at the start of a diplomatic mission across the resource-rich...
Sea swamps Bangladesh at one of world's fastest rates
Jun 14, 2024 (AFP)
A year later, the sea swallowed the area where his old home had been. Now, 75-year-old Aziz fishes above his submerged former home and lives on the other side o...
NOAA forecasts larger-than-average Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' bereft of oxygen
Jun 14, 2024 (UPI)
It's a hypoxic area of low oxygen and it can kill fish and other marine life. It appears every summer, but the average size over 37 years is 5,205 square miles,...
Rural India runs dry as thirsty megacity Mumbai sucks water
Jun 13, 2024 (AFP)
"The people in Mumbai drink our water but no one there, including the government, pays attention to us or our demands," said Sunita Pandurang Satgir, carrying a...
Thousands of fish dead as lake dries in Mexican drought
Jun 13, 2024 (AFP)
The Bustillos lagoon was below 50 percent of its normal water level, local authorities said Wednesday, meaning pollutants were more concentrated and hazardous t...
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