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In a packed community hall in regional Queensland, a calamitous story is being told. Australia’s east coast is bulldozed into the ground. Rural towns are…
A landslide victory for Labour was also a satisfactory result for the vigilantes of the bond market. A Conservative administration that served up Liz Truss’s reckless budget of unfunded giveaways in…
On 13 February, when freak winds brought down a transmission line in Victoria and shut down the state’s largest power station, a fleet of electric cars plugged into a charger in Canberra 500km away…
Illustration: Israel Vargas
The Brazilian state of Amapá is a densely forested chunk of land slightly larger than England and geographically isolated from the rest of Brazil. It has one of the…
New research aimed at identifying foods that contain higher levels of PFAS found people who eat more white rice, coffee, eggs and seafood typically showed more of the toxic chemicals in their plasma…
A visitor to Death Valley national park died on Sunday from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized as the temperature reached 128F (53.3C) in eastern California, officials said.
The two…
Norwegian investment fund Norfund is to invest $307 million in the development of electromobility solutions in Kenya, in particular those of start-up BasiGo. The announcement was made recently by…
The town of Zarat in Tunisia has a new seawater desalination plant. Va Tech Wabag, an Indian company, built the plant, which will provide drinking water to around 1 million people in three…
A tripartite agreement on sustainable urban development has just been signed between the International Association of Francophone Mayors (AIMF), the University of Lubumbashi and the town of…
The government of Ivory Coast has signed a concession agreement with a new investor. Kong Solaire will build a 50 MWp solar power plant in the north of the country.
Ivory Coast will be building a…
Nigeria’s average daily crude oil production in the month of June rose marginally to 1.276 million barrels.
This represents an increase of just 25 thousand barrels daily from 1.251 million barrels p…
Coffee exports brought Ethiopia $1.43 billion in revenue during the just-concluded Ethiopian fiscal year, the government has said.
The country exported 298,500 tonnes of coffee during the 2023/24…
We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.
This week, from 2021: It’s easy to despair at the climate…
DAKAR, July 11 (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's military junta said it has adopted the draft of an amended family code that criminalises homosexuality.
The West African nation has been among just 22…
Until just a few years ago, the right riverbank of the Seine in Paris was an urban highway used by over 40,000 vehicles every day. Despite being named a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the road was…
One of the world’s biggest oil and gas producers is forecasting that global oil demand will peak next year, but still remain high enough for long enough to drive average global warming above 2°C.
UK…
The decision to hold the 31st annual meeting of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, reflects the Caribbean nation’s ambition to become a bridge between…
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