Environment
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Local festivals work to decarbonize
With local festivals often emitting large amounts of greenhouse gas in the process of selling food a...
September 17, 2022
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Black Sea dolphins casualties of Russia’s invasion, military sonar
PRYMORSKE, Ukraine (AFP-Jiji) — Pacing up and down a beach of fine white sand on the Black Sea coast...
September 8, 2022
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Tourists return but Easter Islanders draw lessons from COVID isolation
HANGA ROA, Easter Island (AFP-Jiji) — During more than two years of the coronavirus pandemic, Easter...
September 1, 2022
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Great Barrier Reef sees fragile coral comeback
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Parts of Australia’s beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels ...
August 31, 2022
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Japan to compile new list of 100 important waters in Reiwa era
The Environment Ministry is to newly compile an index of the nation’s 100 best springs, rivers and o...
August 29, 2022
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Study: Invasive frog, snake cost world economy $16 bil.
MIAMI (Reuters) — Two invasive species, the American bullfrog and the brown tree snake, cost the wor...
August 26, 2022
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Okinawa corals suffer bleaching
Coral bleaching was recently confirmed off Iriomote and Ishigaki islands in the Yaeyama Islands of O...
August 23, 2022
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‘Totoro’s forests’ threatened by oak wilt disease
A contagious disease known as oak wilt is spreading in oak forests on the Sayama Hills that straddle...
August 23, 2022
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Florida town hurries to eradicate fast-spreading snail
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AFP-Jiji) — It might not be speedy, but it’s big, hungry and fast at reproduc...
August 13, 2022
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Venomous ‘jellyfish’ found on Tokushima beach
TOKUSHIMA — A dozen highly venomous “katsuo no eboshi” (Portuguese men-of-war), a jellyfish-like spe...
August 2, 2022
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Fuel spills near beaches of Great Exuma
NASSAU (Reuters) — A vessel delivering diesel to The Bahamas resort island of Great Exuma spilled ar...
July 27, 2022
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Race to find Brazilian Amazon species before they disappear
MANICORE, Brazil (AFP-Jiji) — In a remote part of the Brazilian Amazon, a scientific expedition is c...
July 27, 2022
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Indonesian uses puppets to teach threat to world’s rarest rhinos
INDRAMAYU, Indonesia (AFP-Jiji) — In a small Indonesian fishing village, a man with a fake rhino hea...
July 27, 2022
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‘Zero star hotel’ offers sleepless nights to ponder crises
SAILLON, Switzerland (Reuters) — “I couldn’t sleep” and “my room was too noisy” may be complaints ho...
July 19, 2022
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In parched land, Iraqi gazelles dying of hunger
SAMAWAH, Iraq (AFP-Jiji) — Gazelles at an Iraqi wildlife reserve are dropping dead from hunger, maki...
July 13, 2022
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