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Rights court takes climate crisis hearing to Brazilian Amazon
May 27, 2024 (AFP)
The matter is one before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which was invited to Brazil to hold public hearings in a case that has drawn input from aroun...
NASA launches ground-breaking climate change satellite
May 25, 2024 (AFP)
"This new information -- and we've never had it before -- will improve our ability to model what's happening in the poles, what's happening in climate," NASA's ...
Over 170 arrested as climate protests target TotalEnergies and fund manager
May 24, 2024 (AFP)
Police said they detained 173 people among hundreds who gathered outside the Paris headquarters of Amundi, one of the world's biggest investment managers and a ...
Kenyan president warns debt clouds Africa climate potential
May 23, 2024 (AFP)
On a state visit to Washington, Ruto highlighted how Kenya already generates some 90 percent of energy from renewables and said the rest of Africa had "massive"...
WFP chief says El Nino impact 'alarming' in dry Zambia
May 22, 2024 (AFP)
"This year they harvested nothing," said the World Food Programme's executive director Cindy McCain, after meeting farming families. The drought has obliterated...
New Analysis Reveals Historical Temperature Trends at Beijing Observatory
May 16, 2024 (SPX)
Long-term climate data often faces inconsistencies due to non-natural factors such as station relocations, changes in instrumentation, and observation practices...
Florida slammed for bill striking climate change from state law
May 16, 2024 (AFP)
The legislation, which was signed Wednesday by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and comes into effect in July, also bans power-generating wind turbines offshore...
Gov. Ron DeSantis signs law erasing climate change from Florida policy
May 16, 2024 (UPI)
The new law will erase the words "climate change" from state statutes and make energy a top priority to ensure "an adequate, reliable and cost-effective supply ...
How 'Glowing' Plants Could Help Scientists Predict Flash Drought
May 15, 2024 (JPL)
Flaring up rapidly and with little warning, the drought that gripped much of the United States in the summer of 2012 was one of the most extensive the country h...
Summer 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years: study
May 14, 2024 (AFP)
Scientists say 2023 was the hottest year globally since records began in 1850, but the study in the journal Nature indicates human-caused climate change pushed ...
Loss and hope: US park rangers' climate crisis fight
May 13, 2024 (AFP)
The species, declared endangered in 1992, used to flourish in Indiana Dunes National Park, where Brennan has worked for two decades. But the butterfly is now be...
Parks and restoration: Climate change forces US policy shift
May 13, 2024 (AFP)
According to Carr, who works on environmental protection at the agency's climate change response team, hotter temperatures are the main threat to the parks. Wit...
Two UK octogenarians charged over Magna Carta stunt
May 11, 2024 (AFP)
Anglican priest Sue Parfitt, 82, and retired teacher Judy Bruce, 85, held up a sign saying "The government is breaking the law" after attaching themselves to th...
Greta Thunberg fined over Swedish parliament climate protests
May 08, 2024 (AFP)
Police removed Thunberg on March 12 and 14 after she refused to leave the main entrance, where she was protesting with a small group of activists for several da...
Drought-hit Barcelona to ease water restrictions after rains
May 07, 2024 (AFP)
The announcement comes ahead of a regional election in Catalonia on Sunday in which the ruling pro-independence ERC party -- which has faced criticism over its ...
China says top climate envoy heading to US for talks
May 07, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing's Ministry of Ecology and Environment said in a statement that Special Envoy for Climate Change Liu Zhenmin will head to the United States from May 7 to...
German climate activist marks two months of hunger strike
May 07, 2024 (AFP)
Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick, 49, began his protest in early March under the motto "Starving until you tell the truth", and has since been joined by three other activ...
Austria climate activist aims to take fight to Brussels
May 06, 2024 (AFP)
The 23-year-old hopes to be elected to the European Parliament in June as one of the first wave of young activists breaking through into the political mainstrea...
Vietnam temperature records tumble as heatwave scorches
May 04, 2024 (AFP)
Extreme heat has blasted Asia from India to the Philippines in recent weeks, triggering heatstroke deaths, school closures and desperate prayers for cooling rai...
Plant Influence on Climate Cycles Explored in New Study
May 01, 2024 (SPX)
Julian Rogger of ETH Zurich's Institute of Geophysics is a pioneer in this field. "We're trying to understand processes relevant to the present using the geolog...
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