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Small stone tools reveal ancient resilience to climate change in South ChinaClimate

Small stone tools reveal ancient resilience to climate change in South China

New analysis of 12,000 artifacts shows how South China’s prehistoric communities used tiny stone tools to adapt to changing environments and resource challenges Summary: Miniaturized…
SourceSourceOctober 15, 2025 Full article
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US threats cast doubt on shipping emissions dealNews

US threats cast doubt on shipping emissions deal

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Muser NewsDesk An ambitious plan by the UN's shipping agency to cut maritime emissions could be scuttled at the last…
SourceSourceOctober 14, 2025 Full article
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Brazil’s climate wins ahead of COP30News

Brazil’s climate wins ahead of COP30

Brasília, Brazil | AFP Brazil's president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record…
SourceSourceOctober 14, 2025 Full article
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Glaciers’ self-cooling power nearing its peak, ISTA study warnsClimate

Glaciers’ self-cooling power nearing its peak, ISTA study warns

ISTA study confirms: Glaciers are fighting a losing battle against climate change Summary: Glaciers may soon lose their ability to cool the air around them,…
SourceSourceOctober 13, 2025 Full article
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Wastewater plants fail to remove common drugsScience

Wastewater plants fail to remove common drugs

Common antidepressants, antibiotics and allergy drugs are being discharged into waterways, as conventional treatment fails to remove them Summary: Municipal wastewater treatment plants are failing…
SourceSourceOctober 13, 2025 Full article
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New Zealand accused of ‘climate denial’ over new methane targetsNews

New Zealand accused of ‘climate denial’ over new methane targets

Wellington, New Zealand | AFP Environmental campaigners have accused New Zealand's government of "full-blown climate denial" after it slashed targets for reducing emissions of methane, a…
SourceSourceOctober 13, 2025 Full article
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Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistanceClimate

Scientists probe Tajik glacier for clues to climate resistance

Tajikistan | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region,…
SourceSourceOctober 13, 2025 Full article
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Marine heatwaves disrupt ocean food webs and slow carbon transportClimate

Marine heatwaves disrupt ocean food webs and slow carbon transport

New study analyzing data from robotic floats and plankton records reveals how marine heatwaves reshape ocean food webs and slow transport of carbon to the…
SourceSourceOctober 7, 2025 Full article
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Vast reserves, but little to drink: Tajikistan’s water strugglesNews

Vast reserves, but little to drink: Tajikistan’s water struggles

Kolkhozobod, Tajikistan | AFP To quench his thirst, Tajik labourer Nematoullo Bassirov must take a risk -- drawing water from the stream running through his yard…
SourceSourceOctober 6, 2025 Full article
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Four key climate components are losing stabilityClimate

Four key climate components are losing stability

Four of the most important interconnected parts of the Earth's climate system are losing stability. This is shown by an international scientific study based on…
SourceSourceOctober 5, 2025 Full article
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UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operationsNews

UN-backed climate banking alliance ceases operations

Paris, France | AFP The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-backed initiative seeking carbon neutral investments by banks, announced Friday its immediate shutdown -- at a time…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2025 Full article
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World-renowned chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies at 91News

World-renowned chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies at 91

Washington, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk British primatologist Jane Goodall, who transformed the study of chimpanzees and became one of the world's most revered…
SourceSourceOctober 2, 2025 Full article
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Pope, Schwarzenegger to rally Catholics to ‘terminate’ climate changeNews

Pope, Schwarzenegger to rally Catholics to ‘terminate’ climate change

Vatican City, Holy See | AFP Pope Leo XIV joins environmental experts and campaigners from around the world for a climate conference near Rome Wednesday featuring…
SourceSourceOctober 1, 2025 Full article
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Bermuda braces as Hurricane Imelda follows HumbertoNews

Bermuda braces as Hurricane Imelda follows Humberto

Washington, United States | AFP Bermuda faced a rare one-two punch Tuesday as Hurricane Imelda set its sights on the tiny archipelago as it was brushed…
SourceSourceSeptember 30, 2025 Full article
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Yellow warblers show how climate change is reshaping wildlifeClimate

Yellow warblers show how climate change is reshaping wildlife

Findings highlight the importance and difficulty of linking genes, traits and the environment together to better predict a species’ ability to keep pace with climate…
SourceSourceSeptember 30, 2025 Full article
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India plans mega-dam to counter China water fearsNews

India plans mega-dam to counter China water fears

India | AFP On a football field ringed by misty mountains, the air rang with fiery speeches as tribesmen protested a planned mega-dam -- India's…
SourceSourceSeptember 30, 2025 Full article
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Cambridge scientist reveals strategy that could double consumer choice of meat-free foodsScience

Cambridge scientist reveals strategy that could double consumer choice of meat-free foods

Cambridge research finds unique nudge approach that significantly outperforms carbon labelling for increasing sustainable food consumption Summary: A study published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food…
SourceSourceSeptember 29, 2025 Full article
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Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: reportNews

Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: report

Copenhagen, Denmark | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Europe is a world leader in the fight against climate change but must do more to improve its resilience…
SourceSourceSeptember 29, 2025 Full article
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Namibia deploys hundreds of soldiers to fight Etosha fireNews

Namibia deploys hundreds of soldiers to fight Etosha fire

Windhoek, Namibia | AFP Namibia began deploying hundreds of soldiers on Sunday to fight a fire that has burned through a third of the vast Etosha…
SourceSourceSeptember 28, 2025 Full article
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Earth’s carbon cycle may trigger future ice age, scientists warnScience

Earth’s carbon cycle may trigger future ice age, scientists warn

Study: how Earth may overcorrect for warming Summary: A new study published in Science suggests that Earth’s natural carbon cycle, long thought to stabilize global…
SourceSourceSeptember 28, 2025 Full article
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Climate change may bring fewer but larger hailstorms to EuropeClimate

Climate change may bring fewer but larger hailstorms to Europe

Warming may lead to less frequent but bigger and more devastating hailstorms, new research has shown Summary: Climate change could make Europe’s hailstorms less frequent…
SourceSourceSeptember 28, 2025 Full article
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‘Greatest con job ever’: Trump trashes climate science at UNNews

‘Greatest con job ever’: Trump trashes climate science at UN

United Nations, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk He mocked renewables as a "joke," praised "clean, beautiful coal" and declared climate change the "greatest con…
SourceSourceSeptember 24, 2025 Full article
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Flood risk predictions improve with new climate modeling methodClimate

Flood risk predictions improve with new climate modeling method

New modeling method offers clearer flood risk predictions under climate change, helping policymakers plan for future warming scenarios Summary: Flooding caused by extreme rainfall is…
SourceSourceSeptember 23, 2025 Full article
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Schools shut, flights cancelled as Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong KongNews

Schools shut, flights cancelled as Typhoon Ragasa nears Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China | AFP Hong Kong shut schools and cancelled flights on Tuesday as Super Typhoon Ragasa neared the financial centre with a force that…
SourceSourceSeptember 23, 2025 Full article