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Dieselgate: Audi bosses, engineers set for long trial as plea deal fails

Two former Audi bosses and two engineers are facing charges over "Dieselgate," a massive emissions scandal that still haunts Germany's automobile sector. As no plea deals could be reached, a long trial seems likely.

DW News 6 months ago

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Africa’s forests have flipped from carbon sink to carbon source

Africa’s forests have undergone a shocking reversal, switching from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters after 2010. Researchers found that heavy deforestation in tropical regions has led to massive biomass losses, far outweighing any gains from...

Science Daily 6 months ago

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How satellites are driving cooperation beyond the Central Asian region

More than 500 delegates from 32 countries met at the Space Technology Conference 2026, highlighting how satellite technologies are applied to agriculture, water management and environmental monitoring.

Euronews 6 months ago

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X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts

X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier

TechCrunch 6 months ago

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Whale Timmy: Can whale songs still save him? Biologist prepares autopsy

For days now, marine biologists have been assuming that there is no rescue for Timmy the humpback whale stranded in the Bay of Wismar. The Environment Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is now talking about a "minimally invasive attempt to...

Euronews 6 months ago

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Musician performs inside melting glacier to highlight climate crisis

Swiss musician To Athena has performed inside a cave in a melting glacier to highlight ice loss in the Alps.

Al Jazeera 6 months ago

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‘Resilience to environmental extremes’: Queen bees survive winter by breathing underwater

Queen bees can breathe underwater, allowing them to stay alive over winter as melting snow floods their burrows.

Euronews 6 months ago

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How Iran out-shitposted the White House

In the early days of the war on Iran, while the White House was busy posting Call of Duty memes and AI slop of dancing bowling pins, the Iranian regime's state media was flooding the zone with video after video of what was happening on the ground:...

The Verge 6 months ago

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Unusual airborne toxin detected in the U.S. for the first time

Scientists searching for air pollution clues stumbled onto something unexpected: toxic MCCPs drifting through the air for the first time in the Western Hemisphere. The likely source—fertilizer made from sewage sludge—points to a hidden route for...

Science Daily 6 months ago

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The Great Green Wall's one of the world's most ambitious eco-projects. Is it working?

It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees, helping farmers, creating jobs, sequestering carbon.

NPR News 6 months ago

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India news: Delhi looks to ban fossil fuel two-wheelers from 2028

India's capital is gearing up to ban non-electric two-wheelers as it looks to tackle chronic smog and high pollution. In other news, PM Modi is campaigning in West Bengal ahead of high-stake elections. DW has more.

DW News 6 months ago

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Artemis II marks historic lunar return with Pacific splashdown success

The mission unveils lunar mysteries, treats astronauts to a solar eclipse and sets records around the moon.

Al Jazeera 6 months ago

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Drowned chicks and food scarcity: Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered

The primary drivers are shrinking sea ice and warming oceans driven by climate change.

Euronews 6 months ago

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Communities are waiting on billions in disaster funding from the Trump administration

States say disaster funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency has slowed to a trickle under the Trump administration. That's delaying projects to protect communities from wildfires and hurricanes.

NPR News 6 months ago

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Argentine MPs approve Milei-backed bill to allow mining in glaciers

Argentina's lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill backed by President Javier Milei to permit mining in glacier regions. Environmentalists and scientists have ‌warned that mining in in frozen parts of the Andes mountains would...

France 24 6 months ago

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Climate activist Greta Thunberg slams Trump’s threats against Iran

Polls have found that young people in the United States are more sceptical of foreign intervention and war on Iran.

Al Jazeera 6 months ago

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First photo of lunar eclipse from Artemis II crew looks almost too good to be real

The Artemis II astronauts have already captured some incredible sights of the Earth and Moon during their journey. Now we can add a new visual to that list: a total solar eclipse as seen from deep space. It looks almost too perfect; the Moon has...

The Verge 6 months ago