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6bn tonnes of sand extracted from oceans each year
AFP, Published on 06/09/2023
» GENEVA - Some six billion tonnes of sand and other sediment is extracted from the world's seas and oceans every year, the UN said Tuesday, warning of the devastating toll on biodiversity and coastal communities.
Meandering along the Seine: France's roving plastic rubbish
AFP, Published on 25/05/2023
» ROUEN, France: The scrap of red plastic in among the waterside reeds in northern France could be any fragment of the throwaway consumerism piling up across the planet, flowing into rivers, choking animals, even seeping into our bloodstreams.
Antakya's quake victims doubt Erdogan's rebuilding pledge
AFP, Published on 06/04/2023
» ANTAKYA (TURKEY) - Retired construction worker Ali Cimen looked at the pile of rubble raising dust over his former neighbourhood and scoffed at the idea that Turkey's earthquake disaster zone could be rebuilt in a year.
'No toilets': Hygiene nightmare in Turkey's quake ruins
AFP, Published on 15/02/2023
» ANTAKYA (TURKEY) - Sedef's relief at surviving Turkey's deadly earthquake is quickly giving way to fears she could succumb to diseases that threaten to take hold across shattered regions now devoid of basics including toilets.
Researchers dig up secrets of 'self-healing' Roman concrete
AFP, Published on 10/01/2023
» WASHINGTON - How have Rome's ancient aqueducts and architectural marvels such as the Pantheon, which features the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome, endured the test of time?
Captagon connection: How Syria became a narco state
AFP, Published on 03/11/2022
» BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon: A decade of appalling civil war has left Syria fragmented and in ruins but one thing crosses every front line: a drug called captagon.
US duo and Dane win Nobel for 'click chemistry'
AFP, Published on 05/10/2022
» STOCKHOLM - A trio of chemists from the United States and Denmark who laid the foundation for a more functional form of chemistry where molecules are snapped together on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize.
Cheaper, changing and crucial: the rise of solar power
AFP, Published on 11/08/2022
» PARIS - Generating power from sunlight bouncing off the ground, working at night, even helping to grow strawberries: solar panel technology is evolving fast as costs plummet for a key segment of the world's energy transition.
GlobalWafers announces plans for massive US plant
AFP, Published on 28/06/2022
» WASHINGTON - Taiwan's GlobalWafers on Monday unveiled plans to establish a massive plant in northern Texas to produce a component vital to making semiconductors with an investment of up to $5 billion.
World headed for new era of nuclear rearmament: SIPRI
AFP, Published on 13/06/2022
» STOCKHOLM - The number of nuclear weapons in the world is set to rise in the coming decade after 35 years of decline as global tensions flare amid Russia's war in Ukraine, researchers said Monday.