IRAN’S CAPITAL FACES UNPRECEDENTED WATER SHORTAGES AND EVEN POSSIBLE EVACUATION. WHAT CHANGES COULD HELP?

Wed 19 November 2025: Iran is facing its most severe water crisis in more than six decades. Major dams supplying drinking water to provinces with millions of residents are nearly empty, and groundwater reserves have been depleted. Many cities have endured an entire autumn without a single drop of rain. In the capital, Tehran, and in Mashhad, the country’s second-largest city, in […]

Continue Reading

UK UNVEILS £75M PLAN TO SHIFT FROM ANIMAL TESTING TO AI TECH

Thu 13 November 2025: The UK government on Tuesday announced a £75 million ($98 million) strategy to phase out animal testing in science, replacing it with advanced alternative technologies. Unveiled by Science Minister Patrick Vallance, the plan sets out a roadmap to reduce and ultimately end animal use in research and safety testing, while maintaining rigorous standards for human health […]

Continue Reading

MASSIVE WILDFIRE ENGULFS 1,800 HECTARES IN NEW ZEALAND’S TONGARIRO NATIONAL PARK

Sun 09  November 2025: A wildfire has engulfed up to 1,800 hectares (4,448 acres) of New Zealand’s Tongariro National Park since Saturday. No casualties or structural damage have been reported. Evacuations are ongoing for campers in the park and nearby facilities. On Saturday, 43 hikers and a warden were airlifted to safety, and nine more […]

Continue Reading

ANTARCTIC GLACIER SHRANK 8 KILOMETERS IN JUST 2 MONTHS, STUDY FINDS

Sat 08 November 2025: An Antarctic glacier lost nearly half its length in just two months — the fastest retreat ever recorded — according to a study published Monday in Nature Geoscience. Researchers found that the Hektoria Glacier, located on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, retreated about 8.2 kilometers (5 miles) between November and December 2022. The glacier […]

Continue Reading

BLACK HOLE UNLEASHES BRIGHTEST FLARE EVER: WAS A MASSIVE STAR RIPPED APART?

Wed 05 November 2025: The brightest flare ever recorded from a black hole was probably triggered by the violent shredding of a massive star, reports said on Tuesday. The event, first spotted in 2018, reached a brightness more than 10 trillion times greater than the Sun, according to the journal Nature Astronomy. “It didn’t seem nearly […]

Continue Reading

WORLD ‘VERY LIKELY’ TO EXCEED 1.5C CLIMATE GOAL IN NEXT DECADE: UN

Wed 05 November 2025: Despite Paris Agreement pledges, countries ‘have landed off target’ on climate goals multiple times, the United Nations warns. Global climate commitments are on track to limit global warming by as much as 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 degrees Fahrenheit) this century, far below what is needed to tackle the climate crisis despite a raft […]

Continue Reading

UN PUSHES FOR WORLDWIDE DISASTER ALERTS AS EXTREME WEATHER ‘SPIRALS’

Tue 21 October 2025: Climate-related hazards have killed more than 2 million people in 50 years, said the UN’s meteorological agency, 90 percent of them in developing countries. Nearly half of all countries lack early-warning systems for extreme weather events, leaving millions – especially those in developing nations – vulnerable. As it released a new […]

Continue Reading

ONE BILLION AFRICANS BEING HARMED BY COOKING POLLUTION

Mon 20 October 2025: One billion Africans have to cook on open fires or with fuel that is hazardous to their health and the environment, the International Energy Agency said Friday. The problem, which its report says can be easily solved, causes as much greenhouse gas emissions every year as the aviation industry. Two billion people across the world […]

Continue Reading