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Powerful sun storm knocks out radio transmissions across North America | Space

A powerful solar flare disrupted radio and navigation signals across North America on Monday (Aug. 7) and prompted space weather forecasters to issue warnings because of energetic particles hitting Earth.

The flare, classified as an X1.5, was the 20th X flare — the most potent solar flare category — of the current 11-year solar cycle, which will reach its maximum next year.

Source: Powerful sun storm knocks out radio transmissions across North America | Space

‘Nature needs money’: Lula tells rich countries to pay up and protect world’s rainforests | Brazil | The Guardian

Lula said the fledgling rainforest bloc had a simple message to those “rich countries” in the lead up to November’s Cop28 summit in Dubai: “If they want to effectively preserve what is left of the forests, they must spend money – not just to take care of the canopy of the trees but to take care of the people who live beneath that canopy and who want to work, to study and to eat and … to live decently.”

“It’s by taking care of these people that we will take care of the forest,” Lula added.

Source: ‘Nature needs money’: Lula tells rich countries to pay up and protect world’s rainforests | Brazil | The Guardian