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India will 'never' restore Pakistan water treaty: minister![]() ![]() New Delhi (AFP) June 21, 2025 New Delhi will "never" reinstate a key water treaty it suspended with Pakistan over deadly violence in India-administered Kashmir, the interior minister said in an interview published Saturday. India halted the agreement following an April attack on civilians which it accused Pakistan of backing, a charge denied by Islamabad and one which was followed by days of fighting between the two foes. Despite a ceasefire holding, India's interior minister said his government would not restore the treat ... read more |
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![]() Copenhagen (AFP) June 20, 2025 More than three quarters of bathing waters monitored in the European Union, Albania and Switzerland were of "excellent" quality in 2024, the 27-member bloc's environment agency said on Friday. ... more ![]() ![]() Geneva (AFP) June 19, 2025 Short, intense summer rainfall in Alpine regions is likely to become more frequent and severe in the future because of global warming, according to a study released Thursday by the University of Lausanne (UNIL). ... more ![]() ![]() Cullinan, South Africa (AFP) June 19, 2025 On his farm two hours north of Johannesburg, Nico Thuynsma gestured towards thousands of orange, yellow and pink proteas in flower and thriving 1,500 kilometres (930 miles) from their natural home at the southern tip of Africa. ... more ![]() ![]() Brasilia (AFP) June 18, 2025 Brazil said Wednesday it was free of bird flu, paving the way for it to resume chicken exports to China and 20 other countries after a month-long suspension. ... more |
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Colombo (AFP) June 12, 2025 Sri Lanka counted more than seven million monkeys during a census of crop-destroying wildlife, authorities said Thursday, after a government minister called the figure "unbelievable". ... more |
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![]() Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (AFP) June 11, 2025 After Muhammed Sajjad moved from India to the United Arab Emirates a decade ago, he missed his native Kerala's monsoon season, so he embarked on an unlikely quest: finding rain in the desert. ... more ![]() ![]() Dartford, United Kingdom (AFP) June 11, 2025 British strawberry farmers say this year's record-breaking spring sunshine and warm days have yielded the cream of the crop, with a bigger and sweeter harvest than usual. ... more ![]() ![]() Beijing (AFP) June 10, 2025 China said Tuesday it was extending an anti-dumping investigation into pork products imported from the European Union, one of several trade pressure points between the two economic giants. ... more ![]() ![]() Colombo (AFP) June 9, 2025 Sri Lanka is withholding the results of a survey of crop-destroying wildlife, including monkeys and peacocks, because data collected from some farmers appeared unrealistic, a minister said on Monday. ... more |
![]() Khemisset, Morocco (AFP) June 5, 2025 As the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha approaches, Fatima Kharraz can't seem to find the usual sense of celebration after drought-stricken Morocco urged people to forego the traditional sheep sacrifice this year. ... more ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() London (AFP) June 3, 2025 Britain's government Tuesday ruled out nationalising Thames Water after US private equity firm KKR decided against pumping vital investment into the country's biggest supplier of the commodity. ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (AFP) June 3, 2025 Nestle, PepsiCo and other agri-food giants are "unlikely" to bring about meaningful greenhouse gas reductions in the sector with their current climate policies, according to a report published Tuesday. ... more ![]() ![]() 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. ... more ![]() ![]() 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 |
![]() Iitate, Japan (AFP) June 1, 2025 To reduce radiation across Japan's northern Fukushima region after the 2011 nuclear disaster, authorities scraped a layer of contaminated soil from swathes of land. ... 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() Lagos (AFP) May 30, 2025 The Nigerian military has detained more than 30 soldiers and police officers for allegedly stealing weapons from its stockpiles and selling them to armed groups including jihadists in the country. ... more |
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![]() 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 ![]() ![]() Hamm, Germany (AFP) May 28, 2025 A German court on Wednesday rejected a climate case brought by a Peruvian farmer against energy giant RWE, but set a potentially important precedent on polluters' liability for their carbon emissions. ... more ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() London (AFP) May 28, 2025 The UK government said Wednesday it will step in to fast-track the building of two new reservoirs, amid drought fears as England was on track to record its driest start to spring in more than century. ... more |
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![]() 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 ![]() ![]() London, UK (SPX) May 28, 2025 Quub UK has secured GBP 1.3 million in funding through the OFWAT Water Breakthrough Challenge to launch its SpaceEye initiative. Over the next three years, the project will deploy six low-cost satel ... 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 |
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