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Iraq probes fish die-off in southern marshes![]() ![]() Najaf, Iraq (AFP) June 2, 2025 Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern marshlands, the latest in a string of such events in recent years. One possible cause for the localised die-off could be a shortage of oxygen sparked by low water flow, increased evaporation and rising temperatures fuelled by climate change. Another possible reason could be chemicals used by fishermen to make it easier to catch their prey, local officials and activists told AFP. AFP images showed large q ... read more |
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![]() Okuma, Japan (AFP) June 1, 2025 A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the spring sunshine, bringing life back to a former no-go zone. ... more ![]() ![]() Champaign, IL (SPX) Jun 02, 2025 In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, describes resear ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2025 Researchers from the University of Kansas, with support from the KansasView and AmericaView programs, have created a web-based app for the public that provides free satellite monitoring and analysis ... more ![]() ![]() London (AFP) May 30, 2025 Muddy saltmarshes are major stores of greenhouse gases and should be protected to help Britain in the battle against climate change, a new report said Friday. ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() London (AFP) May 28, 2025 Britain's biggest water supplier, Thames Water, was hit Wednesday with a record fine of GBP122.7 million ($165 million) over pollution and improper dividend payments, a regulator said. ... more |
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![]() Dhaka (AFP) May 28, 2025 Bangladesh waved off its first consignment of mangoes to China on Wednesday, a largely symbolic export as Beijing sweetens ties after relations soured between Dhaka and former ally and neighbour India. ... more ![]() ![]() Astana, Kazakhstan (AFP) May 28, 2025 Kazakhstan said Wednesday it will authorise the hunting of saiga antelopes, once an endangered species that the government says is now threatening farming in the vast Central Asian country. ... more ![]() ![]() Eskisehir, Turkey (AFP) May 27, 2025 In the early Bronze Age, a piece of bread was buried beneath the threshold of a newly built house in what is today central Turkey. ... more ![]() ![]() Mumbai (AFP) May 26, 2025 Lashing rains swamped India's financial capital Mumbai on Monday as the annual monsoon arrived some two weeks earlier than usual, according to weather forecasters. ... more |
![]() Paris (AFP) May 26, 2025 From river-clogging plants to disease-carrying insects, the direct economic cost of invasive species worldwide has averaged about $35 billion a year for decades, researchers said Monday. ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() Baghdad (AFP) May 25, 2025 Iraq's water reserves are at their lowest in 80 years after a dry rainy season, a government official said Sunday, as its share from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers shrinks. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) May 23, 2025 Parts of northern Europe have seen their worst drought in decades in recent weeks, with farmers from Scotland to the Netherlands fearing the dry spell will dent harvests if it continues. ... more ![]() ![]() Phnom Penh (AFP) May 24, 2025 A helicopter successfully herded 16 critically endangered banteng onto a truck in Cambodia for the first time, conservationists said, marking a "significant achievement" in a country with high rates of deforestation. ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2025 A surprising discovery at Penn Engineering has unveiled a new class of nanostructured materials capable of passively extracting water from the air. The breakthrough, published in Science Advances, e ... more |
![]() Kabul (AFP) May 21, 2025 Every week, Bibi Jan scrapes together some of her husband's meagre daily wage to buy precious water from rickshaw-drawn tankers that supply residents of Afghanistan's increasingly parched capital. ... more ![]() ![]() Pembroke Pines, United States (AFP) May 21, 2025 At Everglades National Park in Florida, severe drought dries up not only the habitat that wildlife depends on, but the tourism industry in the largest wetland in the United States. ... more ![]() ![]() Tokyo (AFP) May 21, 2025 Japan will waive basic water bills will for Tokyo residents this summer to combat the impact of extreme heat, the government said. ... more ![]() ![]() Rio Indio, Panama, Panama (AFP) May 21, 2025 Magdalena Martinez has lived next to the Indio River all her life, but a planned dam aimed at shielding the Panama Canal from drought now threatens to swallow her home. ... more |
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![]() Nairobi (AFP) May 20, 2025 Kenyan farmers on Tuesday launched a court challenge to laws that prevent them from selling and sharing unregulated seeds. ... more ![]() ![]() Ramsey, United Kingdom (AFP) May 20, 2025 UK farmers are praying for rain as Britain suffers its driest spring in well over a century, which has left the soil parched and crops stunted from lack of water. ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 19, 2025 Efforts to reintroduce ancient, once-abandoned crops in eastern North America could provide new pathways for sustainable agriculture in the face of climate change. Natalie Mueller, an assistant prof ... more ![]() ![]() Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) May 16, 2025 China and the European Union have suspended imports of chicken meat from Brazil, the world's biggest exporter of the commodity, after an outbreak of bird flu on a farm in the South American country, officials said Friday. ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Kabul (AFP) May 16, 2025 Every week, Bibi Jan scrapes together some of her husband's meagre daily wage to buy precious water from rickshaw-drawn tankers that supply residents of Afghanistan's increasingly parched capital. ... more |
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![]() Washington (AFP) May 15, 2025 A day after US President Donald Trump's administration announced it was scrapping existing limits on several toxic "forever chemicals" in drinking water, a top official said new standards would be drawn up - and may end up even stricter. ... more ![]() ![]() Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 15, 2025 A new study led by the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-informatics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has revealed a significant depletion of global soil moisture, pushing large vo ... more ![]() ![]() Triabunna (AFP) May 14, 2025 It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is a vast seaweed crop destined to curb livestock's climate-altering flatulence and belches. ... more ![]() ![]() Brussels, Belgium (AFP) May 14, 2025 The EU unveiled plans to slash red tape and simplify environmental requirements for farmers Wednesday, offering a carrot to a sector that has vociferously protested Brussels' rules in recent years. ... more |
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