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SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AFP) — The Agua Azul waterfalls in southern Mexico are a playground of bright turquoise water cascading over limestone steps. But after a powerful earthquake hit the country, they dried up — and the area’s once-booming tourist economy along with them. The state of Chiapas, where the falls trickle near the ancient Mayan ruins of Palenque, was the epicenter of the 8.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico on September 7, killing 96 […]
by Mariette le Roux and Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse BONN, Germany — World leaders shared the spotlight with a 12-year-old Pacific islander on Wednesday to drive home a plea for urgent climate action despite the Trump administration’s rejection of a planet rescue plan. UN chief Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel led the diplomatic push in Bonn, but it was a small boy with a big smile who got the message […]
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (Reuters) — Nuan Nuan, the first Malaysia-born female giant panda cub, returned to China on Tuesday. Born on Aug. 18, 2015 to two loaned Chinese pandas, Nuan Nuan, meaning warmth, was loved by her keepers and other Malaysian people, according to staffers of the Giant Panda Conservation Center of the Malaysian National Zoo. “Giant panda is like a symbol of peace that can unite the two countries, which is a great experience. […]
NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) — A thick cloud of toxic smog 10 times the recommended limit enveloped India’s capital New Delhi on Monday (November 13), as government officials struggled to tackle a public health crisis that is well into its second week. A U.S. embassy measure showed levels of poisonous airborne particles, known as PM 2.5, had reached 495 on Monday morning, compared with the upper limit of “good” quality air at 50. India’s weather […]
by Marlowe Hood Agence France-Presse BONN, Germany (AFP) — Injecting billions of reflective particles into the stratosphere could help cool an overheating planet, but would also alter the intensity of tropical storms, researchers said Tuesday. Depending on the hemisphere in which such aerosols are released, hurricanes in the North Atlantic would become weaker or stronger, they reported in Nature Communications. Moreover, efforts to engineer lower global temperatures could induce severe drought in northern Africa’s Sahel, a region […]
UJONG KAREUNG Beach, Aceh Province, Indonesia (Reuters) — Authorities will perform autopsies on four beached whales found in Aceh province to investigate their cause of death, the investigation team said on Tuesday (November 14). Indonesian volunteers managed to save six whales beached on the northern tip of Sumatra but four died. Rescuers worked late into Monday (November 13) night to free six of 10 massive sperm animals using ropes and patrol boats and turn them back […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — Air pollution in New Delhi worsened again Sunday and officials warned of little relief in sight from the smog, which has even caused one airline to cancel flights to the world’s most polluted capital. The US embassy website Sunday showed levels of the smallest and most harmful airborne pollutants reached 676, about 27 times the World Health Organization’s safe maximum, after falling slightly late last week. Delhi authorities have halted […]
SABAH STATE, Malaysia (Reuters) — A Bornean clouded leopard and her two cubs were captured on camera strolling through a Malaysian forest reserve last week, a rare daytime sighting of the elusive animals in the wild. Found only on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo and Sumatra, the big cat species is known to zoologists as Neofelis diardi, with just 700 estimated to live in a habitat shrunk by poaching and deforestation. The footage filmed […]
NORTH OF ROVANIEMI, Finland (Reuters) — Multicolored lights lit up the night sky in striking aurora displays over Finland earlier this week. The display took place on Tuesday (November 7) night and was filmed by travel magazine ‘All About Lapland’ in Rovaniemi, northern Finland. It was visible across a large swathe of the country and was also seen in southern parts of the country. The Northern Lights are a result of collisions between electrically charged […]
by Marlowe Hood Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The failure of wealthy nations to deliver on short-term climate commitments could hinder the rollout of a landmark treaty, a bloc of 134 developing countries, including India and China, warned Thursday at UN negotiations in Bonn. The diplomatic spat has underscored the difficulty of reaching a consensus at the 196-nation talks. “If we do not respect decisions that we have made, then how can we build trust among the […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — A brainless, spineless, pulsating organism has a key behavior in common with humans: sleep. While sleep has been confirmed in other invertebrates such as worms and fruit flies, the jellyfish is the most evolutionarily ancient animal that has been shown to slumber. Jellyfish have thrived in the seas for at least 600 million years, longer than nearly any other animal. By comparison, dinosaurs appeared roughly 230 million years ago […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — With sheet metal roofs, concrete floors, poor ventilation and spotty electricity, crowded urban slums in Africa can expect to get even hotter and deadlier due to global warming, US researchers said Monday. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University analyzed three informal settlements in Nairobi, including the largest, Kibera, home to nearly a million people. Along the settlements’ narrow alleyways, mud-walled homes and metal roofs, they found stifling temperatures, “between five and […]
