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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...
UK's top government climate change adviser steps down
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
Stark, who took up the role of chief executive at the independent Climate Change Committee in 2018, has been critical of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's environmen...
Warming world nears critical 1.5C limit in 2023: monitor
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
Climate change intensified heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the planet, and pushed the global thermometer 1.48 C above the preindustrial benchmark, the ...
New WMO head says top priority is helping climate-vulnerable countries
Jan 04, 2024 (AFP)
"Climate change is the greatest global threat of our times, and increasing inequality exacerbates its impacts," Professor Saulo said on her first day as secreta...
2023 set to be UK's second-hottest year: Met Office
Jan 02, 2024 (AFP)
The average temperature was provisionally higher than in any other year since 1884 except for 2022, continuing a warming trend made "significantly more likely" ...
Macron urges fresh push to fight climate change, poverty
Dec 29, 2023 (AFP)
In an op-ed published in the newspaper Le Monde, Macron proposed a new global climate pact and reiterated his calls to reform global financial governance to bet...
The quandary of cleaner air, rising temperatures and atmospheric intervention
Dec 25, 2023 (SPX)
The classical stance in the scientific community has been cautious, arguing that intervention could be more hazardous than beneficial. However, this perspective...
Morocco faces sixth consecutive year of drought: minister
Dec 21, 2023 (AFP)
"We have entered a critical phase after five years in a row of drought, which our country has never experienced before," Nizar Baraka told a news conference. Dr...
Runaway greenhouse effect simulation shows risk to Earth climate: researchers
Dec 18, 2023 (AFP)
The Earth would only have to heat up by a few dozen degrees to spur runaway warming, making it as inhospitable as Venus, a planet whose average surface temperat...
Countries risk 'paying polluters' billions to regulate for climate: UN expert
Dec 15, 2023 (AFP)
After countries agreed this week at UN climate talks on a "transitioning away from fossil fuels", governments are likely to come under heightened pressure to bo...
'Weak tea': Climate scientists push back against COP28 cheer
Dec 14, 2023 (AFP)
But many climate scientists said the joyful sentiments of world leaders did not accurately reflect the limited ambition of the agreement. - 'Weak tea at best' -...
'Living dead': Tunisian villages suffer drought, climate change
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
The North African country, in its fourth year of drought, is grappling with its worst water scarcity in years. Mazhoud -- like other women in the remote village...
Dubai climate summit adopts world-first 'transition' from fossil fuels
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
After 13 days of talks and several sleepless nights in a country built on oil wealth, the Emirati president of the UN-led COP28 summit banged a gavel to signal ...
'Cause for optimism': World reacts to COP28 climate deal
Dec 13, 2023 (AFP)
The agreement was reached at the UN-led COP28 summit, which is aimed at fighting the climate change that bears costly and destructive consequences. Here are som...
Philippines records fewer storms, faces worst drought in decades
Dec 12, 2023 (AFP)
The tropical archipelago nation -- which is ranked among the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change -- is usually affected by around 20 majo...
Campaigners 'losing trust in COP', says leading activist
Dec 12, 2023 (AFP)
Uganda's Vanessa Nakate, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, said activists were tired of being disappointed at the annual United Nations conferences to battle climat...
US climate envoy says COP28 'last' chance to keep 1.5C target alive
Dec 11, 2023 (AFP)
Kerry issued his warning hours after COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber proposed a draft deal that did not include a phase-out of fossil fuels, disappointing the U...
At least 100 elephants dead in Zimbabwe drought: welfare group
Dec 11, 2023 (AFP)
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said an "extended dry season has reduced once abundant water holes to muddy puddles" in Hwange National Park. "...
Azerbaijan, Brazil confirmed as hosts of next climate summits
Dec 11, 2023 (AFP)
The decision was made official at the COP28 conference in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, where nations were struggling to reach a deal on the fate of fossil...
'Small minority' blocking COP28 progress, says at-risk Vanuatu
Dec 10, 2023 (AFP)
The COP28 meeting in Dubai is at a "critical stage", said Ralph Regenvanu, whose low-lying Pacific nation faces a severe threat from rising sea levels and tropi...
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