# More than 300-thousand people have been displaced by wildfires in France and Spain, as firefighters battle to contain raging fires. This comes as temperatures are expected to soar this week. Fires have ravaged the Gironde region and advanced towards Bordeaux, at the heart of the country’s winelands. Nearly 220-thousand people have been evacuated from several towns, […]
# Die Spaanse regering het ‘n nasionale noodtoestand verklaar ná ‘n reeks veldbrande naby Madrid en die aangrensende provinsie Avila. Meer as tien-duisend mense moes ontruim terwyl brandbestryders gesukkel het om die brande te beheer. Die Ministerie van Binnelandse Sake sê die besluit is geneem omdat verskeie brande gelyktydig uitgebreek het, ongunstige weersomstandighede en die […]
# The Spanish government declared a national emergency after a series of wildfires threatened communities near Madrid and the neighbouring province of Avila. Over ten-thousand people were forced to evacuate while firefighters struggled to contain the blazes. The Interior Ministry says the decision was taken because of the simultaneous outbreak of several fires, adverse weather […]
# Die ekonomiese navorsingsgroep Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies sê Suid-Afrika moet groen nywerheids- en ontwikkelingsgeleenthede integreer om mededingend te bly in die internasionale energie-oordrag. Navorsers sê gesamentlike beleide kan belegging aanvuur, werk skep en nywerhede soos hernubare energie, batterye en groen staal ondersteun. Hulle waarsku die land moet swaar nywerhede opgradeer, plaaslike vervaardiging versterk […]
# Wetenskaplikes in Frankryk het die boustene van die merkwaardige verskeidenheid voëlsang ontdek, wat een van die mees verfynde vorms van klank-kommunikasie in die natuur is. ‘n Navorsingspan het meer as 100-duisend klanke van drie-duisend voëlspesies ontleed en bevind almal bestaan uit agt basiese klankpatrone. ‘n Belangrike bevinding is die omgewing waarin voëls ontwikkel, vanaf […]
# Die Filippynse Kuswag beskuldig sy Chinese ampsgenoot dat hy weer waterkanonne afgevuur het op regeringskepe, die derde voorval tussen die twee lande in die Suid-Chinese See hierdie week. ‘n Chinese vaartuig het tot binne sewe meter van ‘n Filippynse vissersboot beweeg in die Scarborough-rif in die Filippyne se eksklusiewe ekonomiese sone, wat ‘n ernstige […]
# The economic research group Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies says South Africa must integrate green industrial and development opportunities to remain competitive in the global energy transition. Researchers say coordinated policies can drive investment, create jobs and support industries such as renewable energy, batteries and green steel. They warn the country must modernise heavy […]
# Scientists in France have discovered the building blocks of the incredible diversity of birdsong, regarded as one of the natural world’s most sophisticated forms of sound-based communication. A team analysed over 100-thousand songs from three-thousand bird species and revealed they are all composed of eight fundamental types of sound that the researchers call motifs. […]
# The Philippine Coast Guard has accused its Chinese counterpart of firing water cannon at government vessels today, the third confrontation between the two countries in the South China Sea this week. It says a Chinese vessel at the Scarborough Shoal in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone came within seven metres of a Philippine fisheries […]
