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Climate lawsuits against companies and govts on the rise

Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)

Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, 230 "climate-aligned" lawsuits have been launched against corporations and trade associations -- more than two thirds of which w...

Thousands march in London to call for 'urgent' climate action

Jun 22, 2024 (AFP)

The 'Restore Nature Now' march was joined by some 350 charities ranging from protest groups like Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion to more mainstream organ...

Four in five people want more climate action: UN survey

Jun 20, 2024 (AFP)

The survey by the UN Development Program, Oxford University and GeoPoll posed 15 questions by randomized telephone calls to people in 77 countries representing ...

Once fruitful, Libyan village suffers climate crisis

Jun 17, 2024 (AFP)

Once flourishing and known for its figs, olives, and almonds, fields around Kabaw, located some 200 kilometres (124 miles) southwest of Tripoli, are now mostly ...

Experts, activists slam 'pointless' G7 on climate

Jun 14, 2024 (AFP)

"The G7 leaders could have stayed at home. No new commitments were made," said Friederike Roeder, vice president at Global Citizen. The leaders meeting in Pugli...

German climate activists end lengthy hunger strike

Jun 13, 2024 (AFP)

The protest began in early March under the motto "starving until you tell the truth", when the first member of the group, Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick, stopped eating...

Climate misinformation overshadows record floods worldwide

Jun 11, 2024 (AFP)

Record rainfall brought to some regions by the natural weather cycle El Nino matches an expected increase in extreme events, experts say. But online, claims hav...

World will likely temporarily pass 1.5C climate limit by 2028: UN

Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)

The 2015 Paris climate accords, which set the ambitious target of limiting the world to a temperature increase of 1.5 C over pre-industrial levels, meant to ref...

From wave to washout? Greens face tough time at EU vote

Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)

But this time around, as people across the 27-nation bloc cast ballots later this week, Greens are expected to suffer heavy losses in the face of a right-wing b...

After historic floods, Brazil braces for severe drought

Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)

Brazil has been battered by a series of extreme weather events, most recently once-in-a-century flooding in the state of Rio Grande do Sul that left 172 people ...

Human-Caused Global Warming Reaches Record Levels, Scientists Report

Jun 05, 2024 (SPX)

In 2023 alone, human-caused warming reached 1.3 C, lower than the total warming of 1.43 C due to natural climate variability, including El Nino. The report indi...

'Crying from hunger': Zimbabwe drought hits children

Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)

"Imagine hearing your children crying from hunger when you cannot do anything about it," the 54-year-old said. At a farm on the outskirts of the capital Harare,...

Swiss upper house spurns European court climate ruling

Jun 05, 2024 (AFP)

The Council of States voted 31-11 to adopt a statement criticising the European Court of Human Rights ruling, which made Switzerland the first country ever to b...

Global warming accelerating at 'unprecedented' pace: study

Jun 04, 2024 (AFP)

Looking at decade averages, temperatures climbed 0.26 degrees Celsius from 2014 to 2023, said the study published in the journal Earth System Science Data. In t...

IMF to unlock nearly $600 million for drought-hit Zambia

Jun 04, 2024 (AFP)

The "staff-level agreement" follows a review of a $1.3 billion loan the International Monetary Fund granted to the debt-ridden African nation in 2022, and is su...

What looming La Nina means for global temperatures

Jun 03, 2024 (AFP)

But in the context of a warming planet due to human-caused climate change, scientists say that cooling effect may be miniscule. Here is how the cycle called El ...

Climate diplomacy averted worst scenario, but more action needed: UN

Jun 03, 2024 (AFP)

Diplomats meet every June in Bonn to try and advance the stickiest points in climate negotiations so that political leaders can finalise agreements at the year-...

Fed up with inaction, Germany's climate activists contest EU elections

Jun 02, 2024 (AFP)

Now the 21-year-old can be found sticking up posters in Berlin as her environmental group Letzte Generation (Last Generation) vies for votes at the forthcoming ...

Climate activists march on Amsterdam business district

May 31, 2024 (AFP)

Carrying placards and shouting slogans, an estimated crowd of more than 10,000 walked a circular route through the Zuidas financial area, and AFP correspondent ...

Submerged homes, heat waves fuel Mexico climate angst

May 28, 2024 (AFP)

The school where Adrian Perez used to attend classes in the community of El Bosque in the southern state of Tabasco now stands in ruins. Each time he passes it ...