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Maloraneng village. Photo provided by The Colonist Report, used with permission. For eight months, Elfredah Kevin-Alerechi, Sechaba Mokhethi, and Cindy Sipula investigated years of outcry from residents living near a UK diamond mining company. Their investigation report was originally published by The Colonist Report, and a shorter version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement.** Gem Diamonds Limited, a diamond mining company based in the United Kingdom that has won awards for improving local communities’ access to clean water, has been accused of polluting dri...
Global Voices
オートバイの8時間耐久レースに出場する浜松ゆかりの3チームの壮行会が、静岡県浜松市で開かれました。 ...
テレビ静岡
Tulum (Mexico) (AFP) - Beryl weakened to a tropical storm Friday after hitting Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane, with fierce winds causing material damage but no injuries along the touristic Yucatan Peninsula. Now headed for the Gulf of Mexico, Beryl is expected to intensify as it moves toward northeastern Mexico and the US state of Texas by the end of the weekend, according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC). After tearing through the Caribbean and coastal Venezuela leaving seven people dead, the storm hit southeast Mexico early Friday with winds of up to 175 kilometers (108 m...
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Mariposa (United States) (AFP) - California firefighters battled multiple blazes in record heat Friday, with a new fire breaking out near the famous Yosemite National Park even as a larger inferno further north came under control. Temperatures up to 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius) were recorded in the western US state Friday, as the region's latest heat wave nears its peak. "Dangerous heat is likely to become more widespread in the West today and Saturday... Temperatures will be 15-30 degrees above average for much of the West Coast today," warned the National Weather Service. "Wid...
AFP
Mariposa (États-Unis) (AFP) - Les pompiers de Californie luttent contre plusieurs incendies en pleine vague de chaleur vendredi, avec un nouveau feu qui s'est déclaré près du célèbre parc national Yosemite alors qu'un brasier plus au nord a été maîtrisé. Des températures allant jusqu'à 47 degrés sont prévues vendredi dans cet Etat de l'Ouest américain, alors que la vague de chaleur frappant la région est près de son pic. "Une chaleur dangereuse va certainement se répandre davantage dans l'Ouest aujourd'hui (vendredi) et samedi", ont prévenu les services météorologiques américains (NWS). "On s'...
AFP (Français)
地球もアスリートも笑顔になる、最先端のシューズとは。 全体がほぼ真っ白でカラーリングされた最新のラン...
FNNプライムオンライン
秋田県内では2024年に入ってから、7月4日までにクマの目撃情報が531件寄せられていて、前年を大幅...
秋田テレビ
いよいよ夏本番へ本格的な海水浴シーズンに入ります。白兎海水浴場は5年ぶりの海開きにこぎつけましたが、...
山陰中央テレビ
Geneva (AFP) - The World Meteorological Organization, which is tracking Hurricane Beryl's deadly course through the Caribbean, told AFP that more storms with its hallmarks could be expected in the future. The WMO, the United Nations' weather and climate agency, said the record-breaking tropical cyclone intensified rapidly, picking up energy over a warmer Atlantic Ocean and developing into a system with lots of heavy rain. Anne-Claire Fontan, scientific officer at the WMO's tropical cyclone programme, said that Beryl signals a very active Atlantic hurricane season in 2024. How did Beryl develop...
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Bangkok (AFP) - L'activité minière en Indonésie, et en particulier l'extraction de charbon, a provoqué la destruction de quelque 721.000 hectares de forêts entre 2001 et 2023, selon une nouvelle étude s'appuyant sur des images prises par satellite. Diffusée cette semaine, l'étude de The TreeMap, une start-up spécialisée dans la protection de l'environnement, a utilisé des images à haute résolution prises par plusieurs satellites et deux décennies de données issues du programme américain d'observation de la surface terrestre Landsat, pour cartographier les mines et suivre la déforestation. Selo...
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