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Fagradalsfjall volcano (Fagradalsfjall volcano) in the southwest of Iceland erupted on January 14, lava flowed into the town, burned three houses and heating system pipeline, but fortunately the residents evacuated early, no casualties.

It was the second lava eruption on the Reykjavík Peninsula in nearly a month and the fifth since 2021, and the town of Grindavik is only 25 miles (about 40 kilometers) from the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík.

Heavy rain has fallen in parts of eastern Australia, flooding roads and ravaging the north-eastern state of New South Wales and the south-eastern state of Queensland overnight, with several towns receiving the equivalent of a full month's worth of rain in the past 24 hours.

According to Japanese media reports, Japan's Atomic Energy Regulatory Commission recently lifted the ban on the operation of the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, the world's largest nuclear power plant is expected to be restarted, but the local Niigata Prefectural Government's consent is still required.

A new effort to help people see garbage in a different way is rolling through San Francisco neighborhoods.

UN CALLS ON AFRICA TO ENHANCE AGRICULTURE IN FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Warning of climate change’s potential to threaten food security in Africa, a new United Nations paper is urging the continent’s countries to take action to develop agriculture and manage natural resources in a sustainable manner.
Higher temperatures and more unpredictable weather could lower crop yields, up to nearly 7 per cent for maize, a staple crop, according to the publication, entitled “Climate Change Implications for Food Security and Natural Resources Management in Africa.”

Never has the world faced a more pressing crisis than the current loss of biodiversity, which affects every man, woman and child. The gap between the pressure on our natural resources and governments’ response to the deterioration is widening. IUCN is calling for governments to come up with a “bailout plan,” a 10-year strategy that will help countries halt and reverse this loss.

In one of the poorest nations in the world, French nuclear giant AREVA is extracting precious—and deadly—natural resources, earning billions for its Fortune 500 corporation while the people pay the price. Our latest report exposes the unsafe everyday living conditions of the people of Niger as AREVA mines precious uranium from their land to fuel their attempts at a new nuclear revolution.