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 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 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.
For two decades, Mohammed C. Israel has been remembered in his coastal village as the boatman who sailed away as a cyclone closed in. On the storm’s anniversary, a group of survivors returned with a very different account of what happened that night.
A nine-hour walkout by satellite-service technicians in Kyiv has exposed a gap between thousands of terminals billed to Ukraine’s emergency communications programme and equipment local officials could verify. The government has frozen a €13m payment while auditors check whether the missing units are mobile stock or a costly failure of oversight.
India will release 2.4 million barrels of crude from strategic reserves after a software failure halted transfers at a major west-coast terminal and left seven tankers waiting offshore. Officials said the disruption had not yet caused fuel shortages, but warned that repairs could take up to five days.
Taipei said Friday that a Taiwanese civic laureate has been offered a place on a 2028 spaceflight after an uncrewed capsule made an emergency landing near Penghu. The offer followed a recovery operation that brought sensitive international research hardware safely ashore.
A group of property owners is asking a Lisbon court to block a city order that could force 1,460 short-stay apartments into three-year residential leases. The council says the measure could put nearly 3,000 people in homes; opponents call it an unlawful seizure dressed up as housing policy.
A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Oregon triggered a tsunami that has already pushed surges into coastal harbours, with larger waves still possible. A former alert analyst’s public warning helped drive the biggest evacuation in the state’s recorded history, while officials and scientists disagree over whether the danger is easing.
A sudden, unexplained sea surge has jolted Portugal’s coast twice in a week and thrown a proposed €310 million emergency fund into a diplomatic fight. Lisbon says ports need protection now; Germany says Europe should not pay for a cause scientists have yet to identify.
A mayoral result decided by just 81 votes has handed a northern Bangladesh town a disputed plan to link household meters, vehicles and public services through one digital network. Critics say voters chose a leader, not permission to connect their private devices; the winner’s camp says the project was a central campaign promise.
For 11 nights, droplets have formed on ceilings in 38 homes in northern Jordan, often at the same minute and without rain outside. The homes share an old underground channel built by one extended family, but experts still cannot explain why water is appearing indoors now.