7 Indigenous Guarani killed after loose grain trailer hits car in central Brazil
Mongabay Globalby Bobbybascomb29 Aug 2026
Seven Indigenous Guarani, including two children and a prominent community leader, were killed Aug.
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top 59%UK weather: Strong winds and more thunderstorms to kick off the bank holiday weekend
BBC Newsby Matt Taylor29 Aug 2026
- Published After weeks of scorching heat and drought the summer's swan song is set to be one of frequent downpours as well as gales for some.
320 Indians still missing in Nepal, 400 stranded in Tibet after deadly floods: MEA
Hindustan Timesby HT News Desk29 Aug 2026
320 Indians still missing in Nepal, 400 stranded in Tibet after deadly floods: MEA The toll from floods in Nepal rose to 579 with more bodies recovered as search and rescue operations continued...
Mountain of fridges is building, warns national council body
BBC Newsby Jennifer McKiernan29 Aug 2026
- Published A mountain of broken fridges is building up in waste centres across England and Wales, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned.
The race to stop England running out of water
BBC Newsby Esme Stallard; Miho Tanaka29 Aug 2026
One evening in early August, farmer Daniel Sizer's phone buzzed with a message. It was from his local water board and it read: "River levels are low but have recovered enough to allow one night of...
First Nations in Canada call for emergency order to protect southern mountain caribou
Mongabay Globalby Morgan Erickson-Davis29 Aug 2026
- Southern mountain caribou are a type of caribou found in mature forests of western Canada, where they subsist on lichen as a winter food.
Death cleaning, downsizing and decluttering. How do we learn to live with less stuff?
The Guardianby Petra Stock29 Aug 2026
Whether you call it decluttering, death cleaning or a clear out, many of us face the onerous task of paring back our possessions, or those of a loved one.
Trump’s Lake Ontario bluster: Why treating his sovereignty threats as a joke is dangerous
The Conversation Canadaby Cornel Grey, Assistant Professor in Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Western University28 Aug 2026
When United States President Donald Trump first began calling former prime minister Justin Trudeau the “governor” of the “great state of Canada” in December 2024, I remember telling friends we...
Climate policy could learn from people who already live within the limits of sufficiency
Phys.orgby University28 Aug 2026
Climate policy could learn from people who already live within the limits of sufficiency Tina Nyfors, who recently defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Helsinki, studied sufficiency, a...
Everything we know about Nepal's catastrophic floods
PerthNowby Allanah Sciberras28 Aug 2026
Everything we know about Nepal's catastrophic floods WHAT HAPPENED IN NEPAL? * A glacier collapse unleashed a huge torrent of rock, ice, mud and debris through Himalayan mountain river systems...
Seneca Nation calls for reversal of Trump's ‘Lake America’ executive order
The Independentby Anthony Izaguirre and Joseph Frederick28 Aug 2026
The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and...
Number of missing in deadly Nepal, China floods jumps past 2,400
Channel News Asiaby CNA28 Aug 2026
NUWAKOT, Nepal: The number of people missing in Nepal and China surpassed 2,400 on Friday (Aug 28), underscoring the scale of the disaster days after a tsunami-like wall of water and debris swept...
Why China's censors are scrubbing videos of the Nepal-Tibet floods
ABC News Australiaby Allyson Horn28 Aug 2026
When security camera footage emerged on Wednesday of a wave of ice, mud and water smashing into the Tibet region, people across the world were horrified.
Trump’s ‘renaming’ of Lake Ontario is emblematic of centuries of colonial erasure
The Conversation Canadaby Nicole Rosen, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Language Interactions, University of Manitoba28 Aug 2026
The ongoing economic spat between Canada and the United States took a strange turn after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order “renaming” Lake Ontario as Lake America.
Why this Sentosa Cove house was wrapped in charred black timber
Channel News Asiaby Luo Jingmei28 Aug 2026
Why this Sentosa Cove house was wrapped in charred black timber Architect Pan Yi Cheng used shou sugi ban, the Japanese technique of charring timber, to transform an ageing waterfront bungalow into...
Nepal horror: 'How could anyone survive that flash flood?'
Mail Onlineby Vivek Chaudhary28 Aug 2026
- See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred Source On the road to Kathmandu, where chaos stretches as far as the human eye can see, they are hoping for the best but, increasingly...
Federal government extends pause on Big Bend National Park border construction until mid-September
The Independentby Rebecca Santana28 Aug 2026
The federal government agreed in court on Friday to extend a pause on border related construction in Big Bend National Park until mid September, a move welcomed by those challenging the contentious...
Wetland thriving with aquatic life again a glimpse of carp-free future
ABC News Australiaby Eliza Berlage28 Aug 2026
In short: A wetland has been restored to its former glory by being cut off from the Murray River and the carp that have overrun it.
Africa spends $90bn yearly servicing debt, pays $75bn risk premium — Kenya govt
Premium Timesby Emmanuel Agbo28 Aug 2026
African countries spend about $90 billion every year servicing debt and pay another $75 billion in additional interest because of the high risk premium attached to borrowing, Kenya’s Principal...
Heavy rain for upper North Island, avalanche risk ongoing for South Island
RNZ Nationalby RNZ; Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa28 Aug 2026
Heavy rain for upper North Island, avalanche risk ongoing for South Island The upper North Island is in for a weekend of heavy rain as parts of the South Island remain under risk of avalanche.