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Climate finance talks make little progress before UN summit
Sep 13, 2024 (AFP)
The Azerbaijani chair of the COP29 summit voiced concern after the four-day talks concluded on Thursday, while NGOs accused richer nations of blocking efforts t...
Climate ambitions face headwinds as EU changes guard
Sep 13, 2024 (AFP)
It is a far cry from five years ago. Back in 2019, EU-wide elections held in the wake of massive youth climate marches saw a surge of support for the Greens, wh...
An Amazon river dries up, creating hellish crossing for villagers
Sep 10, 2024 (AFP)
Residents of the village of Paraizinho -- or "Little Paradise" -- usually cross the river by canoe to reach the larger city of Humaita, a vital link to buy food...
Drought sinks longest Polish river to record-low level
Sep 08, 2024 (AFP)
Its level at one Warsaw measuring station fell to 25 centimetres (10 inches), beating the last record by a centimetre, according to the IMGW weather institute. ...
Climate change intensifying Sicily, Sardinia droughts: study
Sep 04, 2024 (AFP)
Hot and dry summers are nothing new on the Italian islands, but both have seen exceptionally low rainfall and persistent very high temperatures over the past 12...
Namibia's drought cull of more than 700 wildlife under way
Sep 03, 2024 (AFP)
The government announced the cull last week to relieve pressure on grazing and water supplies, and to provide meat for programmes to support the thousands of pe...
Sunken village emerges as Greek drought bites
Sep 03, 2024 (AFP)
The village of Kallio was submerged in the late 1970s when the Mornos dam was built 200 kilometres (124 miles) west of the capital, the artificial lake fed by t...
Africa faces disproportionate burden from climate change: UN
Sep 02, 2024 (AFP)
The African continent has been warming at a slightly faster rate than the global average -- at about 0.3 degrees Celsius per decade between 1991 and 2023, the W...
COP29 finance draft reveals divided positions
Aug 30, 2024 (AFP)
The document, which AFP consulted Friday, is the basis for negotiating an accord that is due to be reached at COP29 in Baku under Azerbaijan's presidency. The "...
Climate change fuelled deadly Typhoon Gaemi: study
Aug 29, 2024 (AFP)
Gaemi skirted the Philippines in July, triggering floods and landslides that killed at least 40 people, before making landfall in Taiwan and China. In China, th...
Swiss govt denounces landmark European court climate ruling
Aug 28, 2024 (AFP)
The ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in April made Switzerland the first country ever to be condemned by an international tribunal for not taking su...
EU faces legal challenge over 'grossly inadequate' climate goals
Aug 27, 2024 (AFP)
CAN Europe and Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) said in legal written arguments to a top EU court that the 27-country bloc's targets for emissions from agricu...
Guidelines proposed for evaluating solar geoengineering research
Aug 26, 2024 (SPX)
In response, an international team of researchers, led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR), has released...
Cannon-Brookes: Australia's billionaire climate warrior
Aug 22, 2024 (AFP)
Today, he is the driving force behind a $24 billion project to build the world's largest solar battery hub in Australia's remote outback. The 44-year-old was bo...
Environmental group lawsuit accuses Finland govt of climate inaction
Aug 22, 2024 (AFP)
The six organisations noted in a statement that Finland in 2022 had adopted "one of the strongest net zero climate targets among industrialised nations, committ...
Trump's strategy on climate? Amplify myths about Harris
Aug 18, 2024 (AFP)
But with Donald Trump now facing Kamala Harris rather than Joe Biden, the Republican has used recent rallies to echo misinformation and memes on X, including fi...
Top UN court to hold climate justice hearings in December
Aug 16, 2024 (AFP)
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) said it would start the hearings on December 2, as it weighs a so-called advisory opinion on global climate change. In ...
In dry Lesotho, hunger stalks family farmers
Aug 13, 2024 (AFP)
The plot once fed Daniel Phoofolo's family, with enough produce left over to sell. But a drought that has been biting countries across southern Africa for month...
Researchers Reveal 16,000 Years of Climate Data from the Tropical Andes
Aug 13, 2024 (SPX)
This study, the first to offer a high-resolution temperature record for the tropical Andes over the past 16,000 years, provides critical insights that could hel...
US and China could collaborate on space-based solar power
Aug 12, 2024 (SPX)
"The US and China each have very innovative space programs, and one area, for example, where the US and China could work together today would be space-based sol...
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