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![]() Gurdaspur, India (AFP) Sept 17, 2025 The fields are full but the paddy brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock - the aftermath of record monsoon rains that have devastated India's breadbasket. ... more ![]() ![]() Kaliakra, Bulgaria (AFP) Sept 14, 2025 Faced with rising Black Sea temperatures that suffocate his mussels, Bulgarian farmer Nayden Stanev has been forced to change his ways - shifting his seeding schedule and harvesting at cooler depths. ... more ![]() ![]() Sankt-Anna Am Aigen, Austria (AFP) Sept 13, 2025 On a meadow in southeastern Austria near the border with Slovenia, Josef Hadler is working his tractor to mow several acres of land in a bid to better preserve the plot's biodiversity. ... more ![]() ![]() Naousa, Greece (AFP) Sept 15, 2025 In a small persimmon orchard in northern Greece, scientists carefully open paper bags to release thousands of flies, in an experiment aimed at blunting the destructive impact of invasive new species. ... more |
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![]() Baghdad (AFP) Sept 10, 2025 Iraq's Euphrates river is running at historically low levels as the drought-stricken country faces its worst water scarcity in living memory. ... more ![]() ![]() Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Sep 07, 2025 From corn chips to tofu, climate change is messing with the menu. A new global study led by the University of British Columbia shows that hotter and drier conditions are making food production ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 People consuming more sugary drinks and ice cream on warmer days, particularly those with less money could pose a growing threat to health as climate change drives up temperatures, new research warned Monday. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was hit by drought in mid-August, according to an AFP analysis of data from the European Union's climate monitor. ... more |
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![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() Aegina, Greece (AFP) Sept 8, 2025 Four farmhands whacked a pistachio tree with sticks, and ripe nuts rained down onto tarps. The bounty seemed plentiful but the crew was unimpressed. ... more |
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![]() Seoul (AFP) Sept 5, 2025 An unprecedented drought has led a South Korean coastal city to significantly restrict water use in many people's homes, close public restrooms and scrap sports events, officials said Friday, underscoring the country's climate woes. ... more ![]() ![]() Beijing (AFP) Sept 5, 2025 China said Friday it would impose temporary anti-dumping duties on European Union pork imports, delivering another blow to shaky ties between the economic powerhouses as Brussels vowed to protect its producers. ... more ![]() ![]() Geneva Sept 4, 2025 France and Switzerland on Thursday signed two agreements on how to manage their shared waters of Lake Geneva and the River Rhone - an increasingly pressing issue as climate change takes its toll. ... more ![]() ![]() Turkey (AFP) Sept 3, 2025 "At first, there was the frost and we lost a lot of blossoms. Then we had a very severe hailstorm when the fruits were small," grimaces Turkish citrus farmer Aleaddin Cogal. ... more |
![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2025 Arslan Munir, Ph.D., an associate professor in FAU's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has secured an $827,533 award from the United States Department of Agriculture's Natio ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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![]() Ithica NY (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 A series of studies by Cornell researchers is testing how crops might grow when planted between rows of solar panels on a solar farm in New York state. By acquiring real data, researchers may ... more ![]() ![]() Dawkah, Oman (AFP) Sept 1, 2025 The arid Dawkah valley is home to one of Oman's most prized resources: not oil or gas but frankincense trees, their fragrant sap harvested for millennia by residents who call it "white gold". ... more ![]() ![]() Khanke, Iraq (AFP) Aug 30, 2025 Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country's largest reservoir declined, an antiquities official said Saturday. ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2025 An international team of scientists conducted a study to understand how microbial communities involved in cacao bean fermentation shape the flavor of chocolate. ... more |
![]() Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 A Brazilian court has reinstated a pact between commodities traders not to buy soybeans grown in deforested areas of the Amazon, a week after it was struck out as anticompetitive. A federal ... more ![]() ![]() Chibayish, Iraq (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 Like his father, Iraqi buffalo herder Watheq Abbas grazes his animals in Iraq's southern wetlands, but with persistent drought shrinking marshland where they feed and decimating the herd, his mi ... more ![]() ![]() Geneva (AFP) Aug 26, 2025 More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal coverage was moving nowhere ne ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was affected by drought in the first ten days of August, according to an AFP analysis on Monday of European Drought Observatory (EDO) data. ... more |
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![]() Shubra Balula, Egypt (AFP) Aug 25, 2025 For years, Egyptian jasmine picker Wael al-Sayed has collected blossoms by night in the Nile Delta, supplying top global perfume houses. But in recent summers, his basket has felt lighter and th ... more ![]() ![]() Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 25, 2025 A Stanford-led study overturns a long-held belief that vegetation was solely responsible for transforming ancient braided rivers into meandering forms. Geologists had assumed land plants stabilized ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 The spread of farming across Europe was shaped by long-term coexistence and gradual interbreeding between migrating Anatolian farmers and local hunter-gatherers, according to new research by the Uni ... more ![]() ![]() Geneva (AFP) Aug 20, 2025 Faced with climate change diminishing farmers' yields, Nestle announced Wednesday that it was working on a technique to produce chocolate by using up to 30 percent more of the cocoa fruit. C ... more |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() London (AFP) Aug 19, 2025 Hotspots of bacteria and phosphorus at England's most famous lake must be addressed urgently, the authors of a study into its water quality warned on Tuesday. Volunteers collected 1,020 samp ... more |
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![]() Beijing (AFP) Aug 18, 2025 China on Monday extended its anti-subsidy investigation into European Union dairy imports, another blow in an ongoing trade row between the two giant economies. The investigation will be ext ... more ![]() ![]() Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 18, 2025 Hong Kong police said Monday they have arrested two people over a suspected scam involving a water supplier that may have cheated the government in a contract worth nearly $7 million. A comp ... more ![]() ![]() Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 In a new paper in Nature, 21 scientists outline strategies to transform global food systems as a top priority to curb land degradation, mitigate climate change, and protect biodiversity. Their model ... more ![]() ![]() Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2025 Rapid glacier melt is driving higher water volumes in at least 10% of rivers across High Mountain Asia, including the Yangtze, Amu Darya and Syr Darya, according to a new University of Massachusetts ... more |
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