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Benue communities sign peace accord on natural resource sharing

Communities in Benue State have signed a Natural Resource Sharing Agreement aimed at promoting peaceful coexistence and preventing conflicts over land and other natural resources. The agreement was signed on Monday during a peacebuilding…

Daily Trust

US govt pays energy firm $167m to halt offshore wind farm in latest such deal

US govt pays energy firm $167m to halt offshore wind farm in latest such deal

Scientists say offshore wind farms could play a crucial role in the fight against climate change.

Nepal’s bird flu outbreak spreads, breeding pandemic mutation fears

Nepal’s bird flu outbreak spreads, breeding pandemic mutation fears

Nepal has culled more than 600,000 birds and destroyed around 1 million eggs as an H5N1 bird flu outbreak spreads across the Kathmandu Valley, shutting the capital’s only zoo and raising fears among scientists over the virus’ potential to…

NASA robot mission aiming to rescue space telescope

The Hindu

NASA robot mission aiming to rescue space telescope

Without intervention, space telescope Swift is expected to soon burn up in the atmosphere

The Hindu

World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45 pct of lending resources to climate change projects

World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45 pct of lending resources to climate change projects

Bank officials have said that demand for projects with climate co-benefits remains strong from client countries.

Platinum Karaoke launches 'PK Audio': New gen portable party speakers, lifestyle audio

Platinum Karaoke launches 'PK Audio': New gen portable party speakers, lifestyle audio

Platinum Karaoke, one of the country’s most trusted entertainment brands, officially introduces PK Audio, a new lifestyle-driven audio category designed for today’s generation of music lovers, karaoke enthusiasts, travelers, and…

Science Maps Safer Future for Phuentsholing as Climate Risks Intensify

Business Bhutan

Science Maps Safer Future for Phuentsholing as Climate Risks Intensify

As climate change brings heavier rainfall, more frequent landslides, flash floods and slope failures across southern Bhutan, a new geotechnical study is helping answer a critical question facing the country’s largest commercial hub: Where…

Business Bhutan

How Chinese forensics team ruled out murder in mystery of a dismembered woman

How Chinese forensics team ruled out murder in mystery of a dismembered woman

When a villager in the southern province of Guangdong was walking near his home on a mild day shortly after Christmas in 2019, he noticed a yellow suitcase beneath an expressway embankment. Inside was the headless body of a woman. When…

Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil found in drawer after 40 years

ABC News

Antarctica's first dinosaur fossil found in drawer after 40 years

A bone found in Antarctica in 1985, and kept in a drawer in England for almost four decades, turns out to belong to one of the largest types of dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth.

ABC News

Chinachem Group steers first-of-its-kind blueprint for Hong Kong’s green and silver future

Chinachem Group steers first-of-its-kind blueprint for Hong Kong’s green and silver future

Like other advanced cities, Hong Kong faces a range of clearly defined challenges that must be directly addressed in the next few years. Two that stand out are the effects of climate change and the consequences of an ageing population…

Can a busy midlifer really exercise for 10 hours a week? I gave it my best shot

Stuff

Can a busy midlifer really exercise for 10 hours a week? I gave it my best shot

As a new study claims we should do 560 to 610 minutes of weekly exercise to cut heart attack risk, our writer bravely takes up the challenge

Stuff

Rare Samar Rafflesia rediscovered in protected forest after 15 years

Rare Samar Rafflesia rediscovered in protected forest after 15 years

TACLOBAN CITY – One of the country’s rarest flowering plants, the endangered Samar Rafflesia (Rafflesia manillana), has been documented once again inside the protected forests of Samar Island, marking its first confirmed sighting in 15…