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East Africa’s rising ‘soda lakes’ are threatening its iconic pink flamingos

Rising water levels in East Africa’s salty and highly-alkaline soda lakes are decimating the cyanobacteria the birds have evolved to eat.

Poland to get $266 million from World Bank for Clean Air program, finance minister says

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has signed a 250-million-euro ($266.35 million) agreement with the World Bank to help finance its Clean Air programme, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said late on Friday.

Superfund designations could fuel PFAS litigation, enforcement

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated two of the most commonly used "forever chemicals" as hazardous substances under the federal Superfund law, in a bid

Alberta municipalities, farmers agree to cut water use as drought persists

By Nia Williams (Reuters) - Municipalities and irrigation districts in the western Canadian province of Alberta have agreed to use less water this summer to combat a severe ongoing drought, the

World Bank to provide $416 million loan to Turkey to reduce air pollutants

ANKARA (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Friday that it signed a $416 million loan agreement with the Development and Investment Bank of Turkey (TKYB) to help Turkish industries reduce air pollutants

US restricts drilling and mining in Alaska wilderness, angering state leaders

By Nichola Groom (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Friday took steps to limit both oil and gas drilling and mining in Alaska, angering state officials who said the restrictions will cost jobs and

US designates PFAS chemicals as Superfund hazardous substances

By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated a pair of widely used industrial chemicals as hazardous substances under the country's Superfund program,

Climate change could cost global economy $38 trillion/yr by 2050 even if emissions halted: Nature study

German scientists' findings show economies across the world 'committed' to average income loss of 19% by 2050. India & Africa predicted to be biggest losers of median income every year.

Oil-rich regions in Kazakhstan brace for floods, Siberian rivers burst in Russia

YANVARTSEVO, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Kazakhstan braced on Friday for levels on the Ural River to rise sharply, something that could threaten two of its western regions and key oil infrastructure, while

Thai divers seek to take on ‘ghost gear’ threatening marine life

By Napat Wesshasartar PHUKET, Thailand (Reuters) - Beneath the surface of the turquoise waters off a beach on Thailand's holiday island of Phuket, divers laboriously collect abandoned fishing gear,

On Camera

Iran war has given India a blueprint for the next conflict

Pakistan would be itching to do an Iran on us and China would be planning to execute an air campaign without allowing us asymmetrical escalation. India has no choice but to transform.

India’s online gaming rules to take effect on 1 May; most games exempt from registration

The rules, which come into force on 1 May, establish an Online Gaming Authority which will determine whether a game is an online money game or online social game in only three situations.

War at machine speed: How AI became a decisive force in US-Israel conflict with Iran

The core of the US military’s AI deployment in Iran is a system called the Maven Smart System, built by software company Palantir Technologies.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.