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Hot spring baths block Japan's geothermal potential
AFP, Published on 14/03/2023
» TSUCHIYU-ONSENMACHI (JAPAN) - With over 100 active volcanos, Japan has the world's third largest geothermal resources, but also a powerful industry that has steadfastly opposed developing the sector: hot springs.
Pollution turns Argentina lake bright pink
AFP, Published on 26/07/2021
» TRELEW (ARGENTINA) - A lagoon in Argentina's southern Patagonia region has turned bright pink in a striking, but frightful phenomenon experts and activists blame on pollution by a chemical used to preserve prawns for export.
Lake Maracaibo: Polluted by permanent black tide
AFP, Published on 03/10/2019
» CABIMAS, Venezuella: The vast expanse of Lake Maracaibo smells like an oil refinery, polluted by its own reserves of crude as Venezuela's economic collapse has left wells and pipelines in ruin.
'1,000 dead' in Mozambique cyclone
Associated Press, Published on 19/03/2019
» JOHANNESBURG: More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation's president said.
Storm over Brexit troubles Scottish fishermen
AFP, Published on 14/12/2018
» PITTENWEEM (UNITED KINGDOM) - In the small Scottish fishing village of Pittenweem, residents are worried the political wrangling in London is pushing their dream of Brexit beyond the North Sea horizon.
Big aquaculture bulldozes Borneo
Maurice Tamman, Reuters, Published on 31/10/2018
» PURU NI TIMBUL, Malaysia: Swinging his machete with an economy of movement that only the jungle can teach, Matakin Bondien lopped a stray branch from the path of his boat. He hopped barefoot from the prow, climbed a muddy slope and stared once more at what he'd lost.
Vegan-only 'fish 'n chips' shop opens in London
Business, Published on 03/10/2018
» LONDON: Fish and chips, scampi and prawn cocktail are all on the menu at chippie owner Daniel Sutton's newest branch, with one caveat: "There's no fish in our fish," he says.
Prawns and Haagen-Dazs on the menu as Trump-Kim meet
AFP, Published on 12/06/2018
» SINGAPORE - The main course may be hard-to-swallow denuclearisation, but Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un also had a heady mix of Yangzhou fried rice and a dark chocolate tartlet ganache on their plates during their historic summit Tuesday.
British show's take on curry riles Southeast Asians
Associated Press, Published on 03/04/2018
» JAKARTA: Judges on a popular British cooking show are being ridiculed for ignorance of Asian food after insisting the chicken in a Malaysian contestant's rendang curry should have been crispy.