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Trio plead not guilty in UK after Van Gogh soup attack
Sep 30, 2024 (AFP)
Stephen Simpson, 71, Mary Somerville, 77, and Phillipa Green, 24, -- members of the Just Stop Oil group -- were arrested at the gallery immediately after Friday...
On remote Greek island, migratory birds offer climate clues
Sep 27, 2024 (AFP)
Acutely vulnerable to climate change, migratory birds offer valuable clues to scientists about how our warming planet is affecting wildlife: from their shifting...
Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' targeted again with soup in UK after activists jailed
Sep 27, 2024 (AFP)
The gallery said "a soup-like substance" had been thrown over "Sunflowers" (1888) and "Sunflowers" (1889) and that three people had been arrested. The Just Stop...
Five trapped hippos die as Namibia grapples with drought
Sep 27, 2024 (AFP)
The dead were among 130 hippos stranded for days in a pool along the Chobe River on the border with Botswana after the water in the pool evaporated, ministry sp...
Australia to offer debt relief for climate-hit nations
Sep 26, 2024 (AFP)
Australia's Foreign Affairs Department told AFP that "climate resilient debt clauses" would be offered on sovereign loan deals "by the end of 2025". "These clau...
Drought reduces Amazon River in Colombia by as much as 90%: report
Sep 26, 2024 (AFP)
The river -- the world's biggest by volume and which also flows through parts of Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana and Suriname -...
US-China progress sparks hope for COP29, says Azerbaijan
Sep 25, 2024 (AFP)
In an interview with AFP, Yalchin Rafiyev said he had received "positive signals" following recent high-level talks between the world's two largest economies, w...
Fund giant Vanguard fined for 'greenwashing' in Australia
Sep 25, 2024 (AFP)
Australia's securities watchdog said the US$8.9 million penalty was the "highest yet for greenwashing conduct" in the country. Vanguard Investments Australia cl...
Leading climate activist released from Vietnam jail
Sep 21, 2024 (AFP)
A second high-profile detainee, dissident Tran Huynh Duy Thuc, was also released, his friend and former human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh said. The release of Ho...
Earth's temperature changes mapped over 485 million years
Sep 20, 2024 (SPX)
Utilizing a method known as data assimilation, the research team merged geological records and climate models to create a detailed curve of global mean surface ...
Germans rally for climate action; UK drops climate case; Vietnam releases climate activist
Sep 20, 2024 (AFP)
Demonstrators in cities including Berlin, Hamburg and Bonn called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government to exit oil, coal and gas and end fossil fuel investmen...
'Life or death' for big cities should planet warm 3C: study
Sep 19, 2024 (AFP)
The World Resources Institute (WRI) looked at what might happen in nearly 1,000 major cities if temperatures remain on track to rise 3 degrees Celsius above pre...
Amazon drought leaves Colombian border town high and dry
Sep 19, 2024 (AFP)
"The Amazon is drying up," the mayor of the Colombian border town of Leticia, which lies on the smaller of two branches of the river that flow through the Three...
Spain's Ribera emerges as EU strongwoman -- under scrutiny
Sep 18, 2024 (AFP)
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen handed Ribera, a socialist climate campaigner, a sprawling brief in the new European Commission that will require the juggling of ...
UK vows to put climate action at heart of foreign policy
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
Lammy also announced the creation of a new "clean power alliance" to bridge the energy transition gap between developed and developing countries. "The crisis is...
COP29 hosts unveil busy programme as main climate agenda stalls
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
Nations are supposed to agree at the November conference how much should be raised for developing countries to cope with climate change but the formal negotiati...
Climate fund chief targets poor countries
Sep 17, 2024 (AFP)
The United Nations' flagship organisation for chanelling climate funding was set up for developing countries worst hit by climate impacts even if they are least...
Trump stalks global climate talks as COP29 draws near
Sep 16, 2024 (AFP)
Veteran observers of climate diplomacy say uncertainty over the election outcome is stalking this November's COP29 summit, which starts just six days after vote...
Climate demo blocks Hague motorway during police strike
Sep 14, 2024 (AFP)
The early part of the demonstration, organised by the Extinction Rebellion (XR) group, coincided with a police strike over pensions. But the strike ended at 5:0...
Germany's parks plant a way forward on climate change
Sep 14, 2024 (AFP)
On the stump of a 150-year-old oak tree, gnawed by parasites and felled in a storm, a tender new shoot represents the estate's hope of adapting to rising temper...
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