Flash floods in Nepal leave families of plumbers worried in Kendrapara district
New Indian Expressby Ashis Senapati·29 Aug 2026
KENDRAPARA: Families in several villages of Kendrapara district are worried about the safety of their relatives who are working as plumbers in Nepal following the devastating flash floods in the...
Entitled travellers and bad influencers test outback hospitality
ABC News Australiaby Vanessa Mills and Mikki Cusack·29 Aug 2026
West Australian sheep station owner and tourism operator Tim Meecham is used to dummy spits, but not from the flock of 10,000 Damaras he runs in the Gascoyne region.
Rethinking bluegreen aphid control as insecticide resistance spreads
Phys.orgby AgriFutures Australia·29 Aug 2026
Rethinking bluegreen aphid control as insecticide resistance spreads When an insecticide application fails to control bluegreen aphid, application conditions may not be the only cause.
Kiwi scientists trying to fathom why Nepal flash floods generated so much water
RNZ Nationalby RNZ; Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa·29 Aug 2026
Kiwi scientists trying to fathom why Nepal flash floods generated so much water This week devastating flash flooding hit the Nepal-China border, leaving at least 600 people dead and around 2500...
‘Firefly’ farmer’s green thumb turns sandy wasteland ‘golden’
New Indian Expressby Unnikrishnan S·29 Aug 2026
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: On the coastal fringe of Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram, where salt winds sweep over nutrient-starved loose sand, S V Sujith has turned nearly 20 acres of barren land into a...
7 Indigenous Guarani killed after loose grain trailer hits car in central Brazil
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb·29 Aug 2026
Seven Indigenous Guarani, including two children and a prominent community leader, were killed Aug.
UK weather: Strong winds and more thunderstorms to kick off the bank holiday weekend
BBC Newsby Matt Taylor·29 Aug 2026
- Published After weeks of scorching heat and drought the summer's swan song is set to be one of frequent downpours as well as gales for some.
320 Indians still missing in Nepal, 400 stranded in Tibet after deadly floods: MEA
Hindustan Timesby HT News Desk·29 Aug 2026
320 Indians still missing in Nepal, 400 stranded in Tibet after deadly floods: MEA The toll from floods in Nepal rose to 579 with more bodies recovered as search and rescue operations continued...
Mountain of fridges is building, warns national council body
BBC Newsby Jennifer McKiernan·29 Aug 2026
- Published A mountain of broken fridges is building up in waste centres across England and Wales, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.
The race to stop England running out of water
BBC Newsby Esme Stallard; Miho Tanaka·29 Aug 2026
One evening in early August, farmer Daniel Sizer's phone buzzed with a message. It was from his local water board and it read: "River levels are low but have recovered enough to allow one night of...
First Nations in Canada call for emergency order to protect southern mountain caribou
Mongabay Globalby Morgan Erickson-Davis·29 Aug 2026
- Southern mountain caribou are a type of caribou found in mature forests of western Canada, where they subsist on lichen as a winter food.
Death cleaning, downsizing and decluttering. How do we learn to live with less stuff?
The Guardianby Petra Stock·29 Aug 2026
Whether you call it decluttering, death cleaning or a clear out, many of us face the onerous task of paring back our possessions, or those of a loved one.
Trump’s Lake Ontario bluster: Why treating his sovereignty threats as a joke is dangerous
The Conversation Canadaby Cornel Grey, Assistant Professor in Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Western University·28 Aug 2026
When United States President Donald Trump first began calling former prime minister Justin Trudeau the “governor” of the “great state of Canada” in December 2024, I remember telling friends we...
Climate policy could learn from people who already live within the limits of sufficiency
Phys.orgby University·28 Aug 2026
Climate policy could learn from people who already live within the limits of sufficiency Tina Nyfors, who recently defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Helsinki, studied sufficiency, a...
Everything we know about Nepal's catastrophic floods
PerthNowby Allanah Sciberras·28 Aug 2026
Everything we know about Nepal's catastrophic floods WHAT HAPPENED IN NEPAL? * A glacier collapse unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain river systems...
Seneca Nation calls for reversal of Trump's ‘Lake America’ executive order
The Independentby Anthony Izaguirre and Joseph Frederick·28 Aug 2026
The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and...
Number of missing in deadly Nepal, China floods jumps past 2,400
Channel News Asiaby CNA·28 Aug 2026
NUWAKOT, Nepal: The number of people missing in Nepal and China surpassed 2,400 on Friday (Aug 28), underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept...
Why China's censors are scrubbing videos of the Nepal-Tibet floods
ABC News Australiaby Allyson Horn·28 Aug 2026
When security camera footage emerged on Wednesday of a wave of ice, mud and water smashing into the Tibet region, people across the world were horrified.
Trump’s ‘renaming’ of Lake Ontario is emblematic of centuries of colonial erasure
The Conversation Canadaby Nicole Rosen, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions, University of Manitoba·28 Aug 2026
The ongoing economic spat between Canada and the United States took a strange turn after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order “renaming” Lake Ontario as Lake America.
Why this Sentosa Cove house was wrapped in charred black timber
Channel News Asiaby Luo Jingmei·28 Aug 2026
Why this Sentosa Cove house was wrapped in charred black timber Architect Pan Yi Cheng used shou sugi ban, the Japanese technique of charring timber, to transform an ageing waterfront bungalow into...
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