Spanish PM criticises 'selfish' attitude of some EU countries over Ceuta crisis
The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sšnchez, has hit back at some EU countries for what he described as their
“selfish, polarising and illegal reaction” to the mass border crossings at Ceuta,
as he thanked Morocco for its help in dealing with the crisis.
In a letter to Brussels, he said several European states have chosen to “attack” Spain
and request its temporary exclusion fr…
'Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists, who believe efforts to harvest rainfall may also be paying dividends.'
After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel - Yale E360
https://e360.yale.edu/features/sahel-groundwater-climate-monsoon
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Shallow groundwater storage in February 2003 and February 2025, as compared to the average from 1948 to 2012. Source: NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment. NASA / Adapted by Yale Environment 360
'On my last visit to Kulak, I was struck less by the panels than by what surrounded them: the cold store, the working pumps, the sense of a community planning for next season rather than next month.'
Iraq’s solar villages show how to build an energy transition that lasts | Renewable Energy | Al Jazeera
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