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Plants absorbing less carbon dioxide in 2023, accelerating global warming
Plants and trees' ability to absorb carbon dioxide fell dramatically in 2023, due to increased heat stress in vegetation, a new study revealed.
How energy intensive are data centers?
While countries like China and the United States had the highest electricity demand by a considerable margin, a new player that rivals the consumption of some of the biggest economies and is bolstered by the ongoing AI hype and data center use.
Earth records hottest year since records began
Sunday, July 21 was the hottest day ever recorded globally in 100,000 years according to the EU climate monitoring service Copernicus, warning that the Climate Crisis is accelerating.
Six out of nine “planetary boundaries” have been crossed and a tenth has appeared
Six out of the nine “planetary boundaries” that track how close humanity is coming to the environmental disaster have been crossed. And now there might be a tenth boundary: the amount of oxygen in oceans is starting to fall.
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Egyptian workers return to Iraq
Egyptian workers in Iraq have reached approximately 40,000, the highest level since the 2003 US invasion.
Egypt and Serbia add their voices to the growing number of calls to end the fighting in Ukraine.
The calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine continue as Egypt and Serbia add their voices to the growing number of calls to end the fighting in Ukraine.
Energean cashes in €883mn from Croatia, Egypt and Italy asset sale
Energean will offload assets in Croatia, Egypt and Italy as part of a strategy to focus on core gas development projects.
Where wealth is concentrated in Africa
56 percent of Africa’s millionaires and over 90 percent of its billionaires lived in just five countries in 2023 - South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and Morocco, according to The Africa Wealth Report 2024.
Israel reports 'shooting incident' at Egypt border, day after Rafah missile strike
Israel said a shooting incident took place on its border with Egypt on May 27 and that it was in contact with Cairo to resolve the matter.
Russia's nuclear diplomacy binding emerging markets to the Kremlin
Currently, Rosatom controls approximately 70% of the world export market for the construction of nuclear power plants where emerging powers in the global south are trying to boost their energy production and turning to Moscow for nuclear power.
University of Ljubljana students occupy faculty in protest against military operations in Gaza
Students at the University of Ljubljana have occupied the main lecture hall at the Faculty of Social Sciences in protest over Israeli military operations against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.
New India-Europe transit corridor set to challenge IMEC, Suez routes
The battle of the corridors is heating up as India promotes a new India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) route that will connect the subcontinent with Europe by traversing the Middle East over land then sea to the EU via Haifa in Israel.