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UN chief slams 'distressing' spending on arms over climate
Feb 13, 2024 (AFP)
"It is distressing to see governments spending heavily on arms, while starving budgets for food security, climate action, and broader sustainable development," ...
Burning question: what can we expect in a 1.5C world?
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
For the first time on record, Earth has endured 12 consecutive months of temperatures 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than the pre-industrial era, Europe's climate m...
Call for Swiss 'super rich' tax to finance climate change fight
Feb 08, 2024 (AFP)
The youth wing of Switzerland's Socialist Party (JS) said they had gathered more than 140,000 signatures on their "For the Future" initiative. That initiative c...
Nobody dying from hunger in Ethiopia, says PM
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
His comments to parliament followed a warning that the number of people who are critically food insecure in Africa's second most populous country could reach al...
El Nino brings hunger, drought fears to Madagascar
Feb 06, 2024 (AFP)
The Indian Ocean island nation has suffered poor rainfall since October and fears of worsening hunger loom as the El Nino climate pattern takes hold. The countr...
What's at stake as EU unveils 2040 climate target
Feb 05, 2024 (AFP)
Here is what is at stake: - The end goal - The 27-nation European Union has pledged to be carbon neutral by 2050, and has set a first interim target for 2030: t...
Dutch climate protest ends with 1,000 arrests
Feb 03, 2024 (AFP)
The protesters had blocked around midday the A12 highway in the centre of The Hague, close to parliament and several key ministries. Police moved in after about...
UK judge dismisses Greta Thunberg protest case
Feb 02, 2024 (AFP)
District judge John Law dismissed the cases against the 21-year-old Swedish campaigner and the four other activists on the second day of their trial at Westmins...
Activists spray paint on Rome fountain in circus animal protest
Feb 01, 2024 (AFP)
They used what they said was washable yellow and red paint, before putting up a banner saying: "End animals in circuses." Tourists in the historic city centre s...
Biden taps insider Podesta as US climate envoy
Jan 31, 2024 (AFP)
Podesta, 75, has served in intense but behind-the-scenes roles in three Democratic administrations and has overseen implementation of Biden's signature legislat...
Activists may escape prosecution over Mona Lisa soup attack
Jan 29, 2024 (AFP)
The two women on Sunday flung pumpkin soup at the bullet-proof glass protecting da Vinci's most famous painting at the Louvre art museum, demanding the right to...
Climate change behind extreme Amazon drought: study
Jan 25, 2024 (AFP)
The historic agricultural drought affected millions of people across the Amazon basin, stoking huge wildfires, shrinking key waterways and taking a calamitous t...
Heavens remain shut over Catalonia as three-year drought persists
Jan 24, 2024 (AFP)
Ghost villages that were flooded to create reservoirs in this northeastern region are once again emerging because water reserves have run so low. And when the r...
UN expert slams Britain's 'severe crackdown' on climate activists
Jan 23, 2024 (AFP)
Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, said he had received "extremely worrying information" during a recent visit to Britain about...
Extreme cold waves in East Asia and North America linked to mid-latitude ocean fronts
Jan 23, 2024 (SPX)
The team, led by senior researcher Mi-Kyung Sung of KIST's Sustainable Environment Research Center and professor Soon-Il An of Yonsei University's Center for Ir...
ING targeted in new Dutch climate legal case
Jan 19, 2024 (AFP)
Milieudefensie, the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth, said Friday they have started legal proceedings against ING, and warned that other top companies could...
Portugal to curb water use in south as drought bites
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
Urban residents will have water supplies cut by 15 percent while agricultural users will face cuts of around 25 percent, Environment Minister Duarte Cordeiro sa...
Kerry says to work on climate after exiting envoy role
Jan 17, 2024 (AFP)
Kerry said he believed the time was right to move on after the COP28 summit last month in Dubai, where the world for the first time as a whole called for an eve...
New UN climate chief wants more action on greenhouse gas
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
Celeste Saulo said humanity was facing one of its toughest challenges and has the duty to sculpt a brighter future. "We are far from having enough action in ter...
Spain arrests climate activists over museum protests
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
The group is suspected of 65 protests in Spain and other countries, including throwing paint at buildings and works of art in museums, halting traffic and occup...
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