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EditorialConfusion over damage to Iran's nuclear sites bodes ill for talks
The National News
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On June 22, the US sent seven stealth bombers, backed by fighter jets and submarines firing cruise missiles, to target three Iranian nuclear facilities. The operation came off the back of a wave of Israeli strikes on Tehran and other Iranian...
Methane-munching microbes modify the seafloor
Sciworthy
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June 16, 2025
Methane seeps are underwater locations around the world where the natural gas you use for cooking or heating, called methane, leaks from the seafloor. These seeps are often found at the transition zones where land meets the ocean, or continental...
Millennial Potash Extends Major Potash Discovery with Over 100m of Mineralization at Banio Project
The Assay
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June 27, 2025
Millennial Potash Corp. (TSX.V: MLP, OTCQB: MLPNF, FSE: X0D) has reported the successful completion of drillhole BA-004 at the North Target of its Banio Potash Project in Gabon. The hole was drilled as part of the company’s ongoing Phase 2 program...
Pangolins in West Africa are hunted for meat, not medicine
Earth.com
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Pangolins in Nigeria’s Cross River forests are in trouble. Most are killed for supper, not for overseas trade in their scales. A new field survey shows that nearly every pangolin taken from the wild ends up in a cooking pot. Scientists from the...
Democracy Is Not Dead – But It Must Be Reborn
Africa.com
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July 1, 2025
Democracy is in retreat. Across continents, long-standing institutions are crumbling, civic freedoms are under siege, and autocrats are rewriting the rules of engagement. In country after country, from Hungary to Myanmar, the United Staes to Sudan...
Risk-taking incentives predict aggression heuristics in female gorillas
eLife
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Animals that live in groups often compete for access to resources such as food and mates [1, 2]. The potential costs of this competition can drive the formation of hierarchies that determine priority of access to resources economically [3, 4]....
FIFA 2026 World Cup: How African Nations Can Secure Their Spot – Full Group Stage Draw Inside
News24
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June 14, 2025
Just a year to go before the inauguration of FIFA World Cup 2026 and the qualification scenario is heating up everywhere. The final list of the 48 participating nations is yet to be ratified but several teams have already qualified in what will be...
First-of-its-Kind Satellite Sees Through Forest Canopies to Measure Earth’s Biomass
PetaPixel - California
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June 23, 2025
Bolivian forest and landscape captured by Biomass | Credit: European Space Agency It’s a day of firsts for incredible new scientific missions. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) new Biomass mission, launched into orbit just two months ago, has...
How does Marburg virus spread between species? Young Ugandan...
Modern Ghana
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In the shadows of Python Cave, Uganda, a leopard leaps from a guano mound – formed by bat excrement – and sinks its teeth into a bat. But this is no ordinary bat colony. The thousands of Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) found in this...
Alert issued as vaccine for Brit travellers for lethal infection 'out of stock in UK'
The Mirror
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June 30, 2025
The vaccine is expected to be out of stock for a number of weeks, Foreign Office website Travel Health Pro today reported Holidaymakers have been alerted to a disruption in the supply of a crucial vaccine, which is expected to be 'unavailable' for...
Lethal infection vaccine 'runs out' for UK travellers as Foreign Office issues alert
Daily Express
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June 30, 2025
Holidaymakers have been issued a warning as a crucial vaccine will be 'unavailable' for the next 2-3 weeks. Sanofi has informed NaTHNaC of an impending disruption in the supply of the yellow fever vaccine Stamaril in the UK. The vaccine is...
This new EU satellite will transform natural carbon assessment
Envirotech Online
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Carbon credits are only as good as the data behind them. Until now, monitoring forest carbon stocks has relied heavily on ground-based inventories and proxy indicators like canopy cover or land use classifications. But with the launch of the...
Capital, MSALABS expand and extend service remit with Barrick, Kinross and others
Skillings Mining Review - Florida
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June 23, 2025
Capital says it has been awarded a further significant contract at Reko Diq, in Pakistan, as well as other contract awards across drilling and laboratory services. At Reko Diq, majority owned and operated by Barrick, Capital has been awarded a...
Interview – Olukayode Bakare
E-International Relations
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June 28, 2025
Dr. Olukayode Bakare is an esteemed scholar specializing in international relations and sub-Saharan African politics. He earned his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and has held teaching and research positions...
Expanding fiscal space for priority investments
The Brookings Institution
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II. Measuring fiscal space Fiscal space is sometimes measured simply as discretionary fiscal spending—the amount of revenue and borrowing capacity that is left over when non-discretionary spending has been subtracted out. Non-discretionary...
Are Country-To-Country Deals The Future Of Climate Finance?
Forbes
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This aerial view shows a degraded area of the Amazon rainforest, near the Koatinemo indigenous land, ... More in Para state, Brazil, on June 12, 2025. (Photo by Carlos FABAL / AFP) (Photo by CARLOS FABAL/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images...
A conversation with VP Lasbery Oludimu on Yellow Card’s 2025 Report
Technext
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June 20, 2025
Africa is no longer a peripheral player in the global digital asset ecosystem; it is a laboratory of innovation and a proving ground for policy. This is the central theme of Yellow Card’s 2025 Report on the State of Digital Assets Regulation in...
Resilient forests are key to ecological, economic and social resilience, report finds
Mongabay
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June 10, 2025
Human society depends economically and socially on resilient forests, a new report from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations demonstrates. As a result, pushing forests toward collapse threatens human well-being globally, not...
Billy Joel to Happy Gilmore: the best shows to stream in July
Cairns Post
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June 28, 2025
From a 50th birthday celebration of a cinema classic to a fond farewell to a hit teen romance and a killer who seemingly can’t die, there’s streaming to suit all tastes in July APPLE TV+ FOUNDATION JULY 11 After the writers and actors strikes and...
Pakistan records largest drop in default risk among emerging markets
The Express Tribune
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June 28, 2025
Listen to article Pakistan has achieved the world’s steepest decline in sovereign default risk over the past year, leading Bloomberg Intelligence’s Global Emerging Market (EM) Rankings for credit risk improvement, according to data released by the...