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Reclusive Turkmenistan announces move to cut methane emissions
Jun 05, 2023 (AFP)
Methane emissions generate around 30 percent of global warming and scientific reports have found that the gas-rich Central Asian state's output is colossal. The...
US climate envoy in UAE meets head of COP28
Jun 04, 2023 (AFP)
The choice of Sultan Al Jaber, chief executive of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, to head December's COP28 summit in Dubai has angered climate activists and...
Far-right party at new high as climate issues split Germany
Jun 03, 2023 (AFP)
The far-right party would receive 18 percent of the vote if elections were held tomorrow, according to the most recent survey by national broadcaster ARD. The f...
Incoming UN climate agency chief forecasts wind of change
Jun 03, 2023 (AFP)
In an interview with AFP, Saulo, who has run Argentina's National Meteorological Service since 2014, voiced deep concern that some countries were not getting th...
Vietnam detains climate activist on tax evasion accusation
Jun 02, 2023 (AFP)
Hoang Thi Minh Hong, the founder of now-defunct NGO CHANGE, which aimed to tackle some of the country's most urgent environmental issues, was taken into custody...
Twitter hinders 'troll hunters' battling climate denial
Jun 01, 2023 (AFP)
Despite the threat climate change poses to the planet, disinformation about it has gone largely unsanctioned on Twitter. But a secretive global community of abo...
UN climate agency picks Argentina's Saulo as first woman leader
Jun 01, 2023 (AFP)
Saulo, a WMO vice-president who has headed Argentina's weather service since 2014, won a landslide vote at the UN climate and weather agency's congress in Genev...
UN weather agency chooses next chief to lead climate change fight
May 31, 2023 (AFP)
The Geneva-based WMO's role in climate change has become increasingly prominent and the new secretary-general will likely become a well-known advocate on this p...
1.5C of warming is too hot for a just world: study
May 31, 2023 (AFP)
Some 200 million people in poorer regions will be exposed to unliveable heat, and half a billion will face the destructive ravages of rising seas even if the wo...
Storms lash drought-hit Spain
May 30, 2023 (AFP)
The heavy rains have mainly affected the southern provinces of Alicante and Almeria which have been hit by several thunderstorms since the weekend. Torrential r...
Over 1,500 arrested at climate protest in The Netherlands
May 27, 2023 (AFP)
Activists blocked a section of a motorway during the afternoon in protest against Dutch fossil fuel subsidies. Police said they had used water cannon to dispers...
Brazilian Amazon city of Belem to host COP30 in 2025: Lula
May 26, 2023 (AFP)
"I am convinced that it will be a great event... the world will love the people of the state of Para" of which Belem is the capital, the president said in a vid...
Glue, soup and grit: the new climate activism
May 26, 2023 (AFP)
The clashes came in a week which saw police raid homes in Germany as part of an investigation into a group that has blocked streets and flung mashed potato at t...
Germany gets tough with climate activists
May 24, 2023 (AFP)
The raids were ordered in an investigation targeting seven people aged 22 to 38 of the Letzte Generation (Last Generation) group, as Germany toughened its stanc...
German police in nationwide raids against climate activists
May 24, 2023 (AFP)
The raids were ordered in an investigation targeting seven people aged 22 to 38 over suspicions of "forming or supporting a criminal organisation", said a joint...
In Venice, an architectural toolbox to adapt to climate change
May 24, 2023 (AFP)
The exhibition, entitled the "Laboratory of the Future", is aimed at offering "ideas, projects, ways of making, ways of thinking as a kind of gift to the audien...
Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges
May 24, 2023 (AFP)
Researchers have documented an explosion of hate and misinformation on Twitter since the Tesla billionaire took over in October 2022 -- and now experts say comm...
France primed for 'realistic' 4C warming scenario: minister
May 21, 2023 (AFP)
Christophe Bechu, minister for ecological transition, told the weekly JDD paper that his government was no longer banking on limiting the increase to 1.5 Celsiu...
Arab conflict zones missing out on climate funds: aid groups
May 18, 2023 (AFP)
In a joint report focusing on Iraq, Syria and Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Norwegian Red Cross demanded greater assistance...
Frigid US city becomes haven in climate change era
May 17, 2023 (AFP)
In 2017, a wildfire got dangerously close to her neighborhood in Sonoma County. Then, two years later, while she was on a visit to Duluth on the advice of a col...
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