A volunteer scanning public solar images has spotted a second, faster cloud of charged particles racing towards Earth, sharply raising the risk from a severe geomagnetic storm. Forecasters say the combined blast could reach the planet as early as Wednesday night, threatening satellite navigation, polar flights and parts of Britain’s power system.
An audit has turned actor Bao Nhi Vinh’s fight over a sprawling solar-powered film studio into a financial crisis, finding a vast gap between reported and metered electricity sales. The review puts 600 billion dong (about €20.5 million) of the project’s financing at risk.
A Vietnamese football club has sued a stadium operator after nine players lost their footing on a treated artificial pitch and a national cup tie was abandoned. The claim says a citrus-based cleaner left a slick residue; the operator says it followed the product instructions.
The head of a Pacific data-services company resigned without warning on Monday as a new study found its Samoa facility could shift enough electricity use to soak up most of the solar power the island currently wastes. The company’s chief executive also gave up a WST 420,000 bonus, directing the money towards community energy projects.
A week after torrential rain flooded towns in Veracruz, a state inspection found that most of a costly river-warning network was never installed. The system’s false all-clear has opened a political scandal over how officials bought and tested the equipment.
A Swedish laboratory network has identified 1,386 thyroid test results that may have been distorted by a supplement promoted in online “reset” advice, sharply escalating a months-long review of unusual readings. Clinics are contacting patients across three regions after an unexpected audit found the interference in nearly one in five samples examined.
Jinyu County has cancelled a planned 28-kilometre road through a scenic ridge and will protect 9,800 hectares of forests and terraced fields instead. The decision was announced on Monday after a public hearing where decades of photographs showed how quickly the area had changed.
A strange pale film spreading across the Keta Lagoon has led scientists to declare that part of Ghana’s mangrove coast has crossed a climate-driven threshold. They warn that thousands of hectares could fail to regenerate by 2040, while salt producers celebrate a vote that strips a regional board of key powers.
A four-year remembrance of Dnipro’s 2022 communications blackout has brought a startling telecom scandal into view: a relay provider copied tens of thousands of device-location traces to a contractor in Prague. The company says the data were for network repairs; a regulator’s audit found that terminal identifiers remained readable.
A hospital kept its dialysis ward open until after midnight on Monday after floodwater shut the bus routes serving 29 patients in coastal New South Wales. The disruption came on the 10th anniversary of a flood that once cut the same district off from treatment.
A sudden run on ash-protection filters has left Baltic emergency stores short as scientists report a sharp rise in activity beneath Iceland’s Katla volcano. Officials say an eruption is not certain, but researchers warn that the strongest signals in decades could precede one within days.
A newly published study from Serbia says an ordinary meal can make a liver scan look alarming in people with no known liver disease. The finding began with a medical contest in which teams noticed that the same test seemed to deliver harsher verdicts after lunch.