Maldives

An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Arete Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of refreezing glaciers in place. Off one atoll, just south of the Maldives' capital, Male, researchers are testing one way...

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The most innovative companies in corporate responsibility—like Cisco, Land O'Lakes, Delta, Toyota, and even the board game Catan—found ways to make new advances in business for good in 2025.

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Marketed as a luxury tourist destination, the Maldives struggles with the legacy of an authoritarian government and the existential threat of climate change.

Rapper Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori made their way to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to celebrate Censori's 30th birthday. The two can be

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by Marchio GORBIANOTsunami-hit nations will next week commemorate the more than 220,000 people who died in the Boxing Day disaster two decades ago, when huge waves tore into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean.Beachside memorials and religious ceremonies will be held across Asia in Indonesia...

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K.P. Sharma Oli breaks with tradition in his fourth term by heading to Beijing before New Delhi.

Record-breaking floods in Spain, violent storms in Florida and wildfires in South America – these are just a few examples of the extreme weather events accelerating and intensifying across the world. With the cost of inaction clearer than ever, financing for clean alternatives to the fossil fuels which are driving climate change will be top of the agenda at this year's UN climate conference, COP29.

MIT associate professor of architecture Skylar Tibbits invents self-organizing systems and programmable materials to tackle complex challenges, from fighting sea level rise to improving the efficiency of airplane engines.

Modi's party scored an unexpected win in Haryana and a loss in Kashmir that could still be a strategic boost.

A year after a historic treaty to protect the high seas was opened to signatures, it has now received 13 ratifications—leaving it still far from coming into force.

Many sharks and rays are known to breach, leaping fully or partly out of the water.

An excerpt from WHYY's podcast "Peak Travel," looking at the aftermath of the Lahaina fire and the Hawaiian islands' complicated relationship with tourism from the mainland.

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MALE, Maldives, Aug 02 (IPS) - The ocean is our lifeline, covering 70 percent of the earth's surface, it is the source of half of the oxygen we breathe, and it absorbs 26 percent of the carbon dioxide we produce. It is home to millions of marine species, contains 97 percent of all of the water on our planet and offers humankind immense resources.?