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Glacier National Park (United States) (AFP) - Glacier National Park's ice fortress is crumbling. The giant trees of Sequoia National Park are ablaze. And even the tenacious cacti of Saguaro National Park are struggling to endure a decades-long drought. Since their creation, national parks have embodied the pioneering spirit of America in their vast expanses and breathtaking landscapes. But today, the climate crisis imperils the very symbols of many parks, leaving them facing a future where their names could be cruel ironies. Deep within Montana's Glacier National Park, the once majestic Grinn...
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Indiana Dunes National Park and Glacier National Park (United States) (AFP) - American biologist Laura Brennan describes the coin-sized Karner blue butterfly as "very delicate and graceful" with a "lovely blue" coloring and "just a little speckling of orange." The species, declared endangered in 1992, used to flourish in Indiana Dunes National Park, where Brennan has worked for two decades. But the butterfly is now believed to have disappeared entirely from the midwestern US park -- becoming a victim of rising temperatures fueled by human activity, among other stressors. Brennan and thousands ...
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A range of organizations including Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action could be banned in the UK as "extreme protest groups" under new proposals tabled by a senior government adviser. The approach currently applied to terrorist organizations should be used as a model, according to adviser on political violence John Woodcock, also known as Lord Walney, the BBC reported on Sunday, citing extracts from the report. In recommendations now due to be presented to the Cabinet, Woodcock backs proscribing groups that "routinely use criminal tactics to try to achieve their aims." "Militant groups like Pal...
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A range of organizations including Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action could be banned in the UK as "extreme protest groups" under new proposals tabled by a senior government adviser. The approach currently applied to terrorist organizations should be used as a model, according to adviser on political violence John Woodcock, also known as Lord Walney, the BBC reported on Sunday, citing extracts from the report. In recommendations now due to be presented to the Cabinet, Woodcock backs proscribing groups that "routinely use criminal tactics to try to achieve their aims." "Militant groups like Pal...
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A range of organizations including Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action could be banned in the UK as "extreme protest groups" under new proposals tabled by a senior government adviser. The approach currently applied to terrorist organizations should be used as a model, according to adviser on political violence John Woodcock, also known as Lord Walney, the BBC reported on Sunday, citing extracts from the report. In recommendations now due to be presented to the Cabinet, Woodcock backs proscribing groups that "routinely use criminal tactics to try to achieve their aims." "Militant groups like Pal...
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At least 153 people have died in the devastating flash floods that struck Afghanistan's northern provinces, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Saturday. Ministry spokesman Abdul Matin Qani told dpa that at least 131 fatalities were reported in Baghlan, the worst-hit province. Twenty people were killed in Takhar, and two in Badakhshan, he added. At least 100 others were reportedly injured. Earlier, the country's National Disaster Management Authority had placed the nationwide death toll at 85, but other sources put a much higher number of fatalities. Officials estimate that the number of casual...
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At least three Afghan provinces have been hit by devastating flash floods as a new wave of flooding hits north of the country, officials reported on Saturday. Baghlan province is suffering the brunt of the disaster. Officials are struggling to provide an accurate death toll, but a local representative quoted by TOLOnews estimates at least 150 fatalities in Baghlan province. The report also suggests another 100 people are injured. Officials in neighbouring Takhar province reported more than 20 deaths, while Badakhshan province confirmed two fatalities and two missing people. The flooding caused...
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By Sara HUSSEIN Bangkok (AFP) - L'éducation de millions d'enfants est menacée par le changement climatique, comme l'a prouvé le mois dernier la vague de chaleur qui a frappé l'Asie et contraint à des fermetures d'écoles. Si l'arrivée des pluies saisonnières a offert un certain répit dans certaines régions, les experts redoutent que ce type de problème ne s'aggrave avec à terme de graves conséquences sur la scolarité. L'Asie se réchauffe plus rapidement que la moyenne mondiale avec des vagues de chaleur plus fréquentes, plus longues et plus intenses, mais la hausse des températures n'est pas l'...
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Paris (AFP) - Scientists Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler, who on Thursday received the prestigious World Food Prize for "their work to preserve the world's heritage of seeds", are on a mission. Their vocation is to safeguard as many seeds as possible so that one day the world can benefit from their genetic characteristics. Their work is all in the name of protecting global food security. Hawtin and Fowler helped set up a world reserve of seeds dug into a glacier on the Norwegian archipelago Svalbard in the Arctic -- where 1.25 million samples are now stored for preservation in the cold. It was...
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Germany's National Hydrogen Council has significantly raised its forecast for future hydrogen demand in Germany. The expert committee, which advises the German government on hydrogen issues, now assumes a total demand of between 94 and 124 terawatt hours (TWh) for the year 2030. By way of comparison, around 55 TWh of hydrogen is currently consumed in Germany every year. An initial forecast presented by the NWR in February 2023 assumed a maximum demand of 93 terawatt hours. The NWR's new estimate is of the same order of magnitude as the update of the German government's National Hydrogen Strate...
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