Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut.
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- BBC
Nigeria town celebrates after hunting down ‘killer hippo’
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- Associated Press
Cambodian fishermen turn to raising eels as Tonle Sap lake runs out of fish
Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap in Cambodia, Southeast Asia’s largest lake and the epicenter of the world’s most productive inland fishery. Phat hopes that raising eels — a delicacy in Asian markets like China, Japan and South Korea — will provide a way forward.
- The Independent
Scientists stunned to witness two injured deep-sea ‘jelly’ creatures fuse into one
Findings may lead to better understanding of how transplanted tissue integrates into body
- Associated Press
Grazer beats the behemoth that killed her cub to win Alaska's Fat Bear Contest
In a storyline better befitting a melodrama than a popularity vote, Grazer won her second Fat Bear Contest Tuesday by defeating the male behemoth that killed her cub this summer. Grazer beat Chunk by more than 40,000 votes cast by fans watching live cameras atexplore.org of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. This is where Grazer’s cub died after it slipped over the waterfall and was killed by Chunk, perhaps the most dominant brown bear on the river.
- Evening Standard
Hurricane Milton latest LIVE: Monster storm crashes into Florida as first deaths confirmed
More than two million Florida homes and businesses were without power and 1,900 flights have been cancelled
- Euronews
Two elephants die in flooding at sanctuary in northern Thailand
The sanctuary was inundated by floodwaters reaching nearly five metres high.View on euronews
- Futurism
Scientists Just Took the Earth's "Vital Signs." They Hated What They Saw.
The doctors have just taken the Earth's "vital signs." And the prognosis is not good. In an annual climate report published in the journal BioScience, an international team of scientists warn that humanity is "on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster," as we fail to stop the worst of the environmental impacts. Right now, […]
- The Independent
Hurricane Milton makes landfall on Florida coast, leaving 2.8m without power and record flooding: Live updates
Multiple fatalities have already been reported as Hurricane Milton wrecks havoc along the Florida coastline
- HuffPost
Florida Democrat Shuts Down Marjorie Taylor Greene And Her Hurricane Conspiracy 'Machine'
Jared Moskowitz slammed the Georgia Republican for her "very dangerous" misinformation.
- AFP News
Monster Hurricane Milton makes landfall, walloping coast of Florida
Hurricane Milton left a trail of destruction as it crashed into the Florida coast Wednesday, its furious winds sparking tornadoes and flash floods across a US state reeling from another massive storm two weeks earlier.- 'The other storm' - Milton struck just two weeks after another major hurricane, Helene, devastated Florida and other southeastern states, with emergency crews still working to provide relief.
- AFP News
China's solar goes from supremacy to oversupply
Strong state support and huge private investment have made China's solar industry a global powerhouse, but it faces new headwinds, from punitive tariffs abroad to a brutal price war at home.The sector's supersonic expansion has overleveraged the domestic industry, overloaded China's grid and sparked a brutal price war, experts say.
- The Independent
Milton is the fastest Atlantic storm to go from Tropical Storm to Category 5 EVER
Hurricane Milton doubled the requirements for rapid intensification when it grew from a Category 1 to a Category 5 storm
- Associated Press
Hurricane Milton spawns destructive, deadly tornadoes before making landfall
Multiple powerful tornadoes ripped across Florida hours before Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday, tearing off roofs, overturning vehicles and sucking debris into the air as the black V-shaped columns moved through. Deaths were reported in St. Lucie County on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, but local authorities did not specify how many residents had been killed. “It’s definitely out of the ordinary,” said Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini.
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- BBC
Mama bear beats rival who killed her cub to win Fat Bear Week
The brown bear, named 128 Grazer, also defeated her rival, Chunk, last year to win the title.
- The Guardian
Hurricane Milton: nearly 3 million without power in Florida as category 3 storm makes landfall
Powerful cyclone slams into coast, bringing deadly storm surge to Sarasota, Tampa, St Petersburg and Fort Myers
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Swarm of tadpoles snapped by snorkelling photographer wins international contest
An image of western toad tadpoles won the Natural History Museum’s 60th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.
- People
Mama Bear Wins Fat Bear Week for Second Year in a Row by Beating Competitor That Killed Her Cub
Grazer once again surpassed Chunk — who killed one of her cubs in July — in the competition's finals, winning by a healthy margin
- BuzzFeed
"You're Missing A Really Key Piece Of This": This Tampa Resident Just Gave A Critical Explanation For Why It's So Difficult To Evacuate Before A Hurricane
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