Rooftop solar panels may influence urban temperatures

A recent study reveals that widespread installation of rooftop photovoltaic solar panels (RPVSPs) could cause daytime temperatures to rise while lowering them at night in urban areas. The research, led by Dr Ansar Khan from the University of Calcutta and co-authored by Scientia Professor Mattheos Santamouris from UNSW Sydney, employed mesoscale

US, Russia vie for influence in Central African Republic

Hours after Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against his country’s top military leaders, his private army’s biggest client in Africa panicked, turning for help to his foe in the West. Officials from Central African Republic, where some 1,500 of Prigozhin’s shadowy Wagner Group mercenaries were stationed, wrote a letter that