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Coral reefs suffer fourth worldwide bleaching event, NOAA says

Along coastlines from Australia to Kenya to Mexico, a number of the world's vibrant coral reefs have turned a ghostly white in what researchers stated on Monday amounted to the 4th international whitening occasion in the last three years. At least 54 nations and areas have actually experienced mass bleaching among their reefs since February 2023 as environment change warms the ocean's surface waters, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Coral Reef Watch, the world's leading coral reef monitoring body. Whitening is triggered by water temperature anomalies that trigger corals to expel the colorful algae living...

Energy Markets

Safety fears stall U.N. bid to analyze sun-blocking environment modification tech

U.N. delegates on Thursday withdrew a motion requiring more research study into innovations that objective to fight climate modification by reflecting the sun's rays back into space, amid issues about health and environmental threats. Some who opposed the draft resolution at the U.N. Environment Assembly (UNEA) were also fretted that using solar radiation adjustment (SRM) may let huge polluters off the hook, organisations watching the dispute said. Switzerland and Monaco first tabled the resolution on examining the geoengineering technology in December and it was talked about throughout this week's assembly in Nairobi. The initial variation called for the convening of...

Oil & Gas

Uganda says it remains in talk with import all its oil through Tanzania

Uganda is working out with Tanzania to import all of its oil items through Dar es Salaam, which would mean an end to imports through Kenya's Mombasa port, Uganda's energy minister informed on Thursday. Uganda has actually been dissatisfied with the longstanding system under which Ugandan fuel business purchase 90% of their supplies through affiliated firms in Kenya. President Yoweri Museveni has grumbled this exposes his country to provide disturbances and high pump costs. In reaction, Uganda revealed in November it would turn over unique rights for supply of all petroleum products to a system of global energy trader Vitol....

Fossil Fuels

Kenya and Uganda solve oil import row, Uganda states

Kenya will enable landlocked Uganda's state oil firm to import petroleum items through its port of Mombasa, Uganda's energy ministry validated on Thursday, to end a row in between the two neighbours. Uganda has actually been seeking alternative methods of importing petroleum products, consisting of through a Tanzanian port, after its oil merchants for years received their freight through associated firms in Kenya. Solomon Muyita, representative for Uganda's ministry of energy and minerals, stated the first shipment under the brand-new system was anticipated in May. Kenya has actually consented to provide us a licence, UNOC (Uganda. National Oil Company) is...

Fossil Fuels

Kenya fixes its oil importation row with Uganda - report

Kenya will enable Uganda's. state oil company to import petroleum products through its port of. Mombasa, its energy minister was quoted as saying in a regional. newspaper on Thursday, to end a row that had triggered diplomatic. issues in between the 2 neighbours. Uganda has actually been seeking option methods of importing its. petroleum products, consisting of through a Tanzanian port, ending. decades of a system under which its oil retailers were getting. their freight through associated firms in Kenya. You will see UNOC (Uganda National Oil Business) getting a. licence and then we will see how to interact, Kenya's....

Environment

Kenya's Ruto requires more agile banks to deal with crises

Kenya's President William Ruto said on Thursday it was important to make the worldwide monetary system more nimble in order to help countries handle crises, and invited U.S. support for such reforms. Speaking at the start of a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, Ruto stated he recently convened a summit for the World Bank's International Advancement Association to address issues about high financial obligation problems dealt with by numerous low-income countries. He said the objective was to find ways to make international financial institutions a lot more sensitive, agile and ... able to) respond to pressing issues compounded...

Environment

Kenya flood toll increases to 181 as homes and roads are damaged

Floods and landslides across Kenya have actually eliminated 181 individuals since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government and Red Cross said on Wednesday, as dozens more were eliminated in neighbouring Tanzania and Burundi. Torrential rain and floods have destroyed homes, roadways, bridges and other infrastructure throughout the region. The death toll in Kenya surpasses that from floods triggered by the El Nino weather phenomenon late last year. In the central Kenyan town of Mai Mahiu, where at least 48 died in flash floods on Monday, 2 bodies were recuperated from the debris on Wednesday,...