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Fast-warming Europe risks more summer droughts: monitor
Apr 20, 2023 (AFP)
Two-thirds of Europe's rivers fell below average levels and five cubic kilometres (two cubic miles) of ice disappeared from Alpine glaciers, the Copernicus Clim...
Water rationed in Catalonia as drought bites deeper
Apr 19, 2023 (AFP)
While this small Catalan town has suffered supply problems for years due to the depleted state of its water table, the current drought has made things worse. Ev...
NASA launches climate-focused Startup Studio with Technology Incubator
Apr 18, 2023 (SPX)
Now FedTech, an organization that specializes in connecting entrepreneurs with technologies from federal labs, is teaming up with NASA Technology Transfer Expan...
Climate pledges of world's top carbon emitters
Apr 18, 2023 (AFP)
After EU lawmakers adopted sweeping climate measures on Tuesday, here is a roundup of where it and other major carbon emitters stand. Many countries have commit...
Iraq's ancient treasures sand-blasted by climate change
Apr 16, 2023 (AFP)
Ancient Babylonian treasures, painstakingly unearthed, are slowly disappearing again under wind-blown sand in a land parched by rising heat and prolonged drough...
COP28 head urges 'accessible' global climate finance
Apr 15, 2023 (AFP)
Al Jaber, who is also head of the United Arab Emirates' national oil company, said he had urged G7 climate and environment ministers meeting in Japan this weeke...
Unsound climate studies sneak into print: scientists
Apr 14, 2023 (AFP)
Observers have long questioned the growing number of research journals that take fees from eager academics but often publish their work without rigorous review....
Tunisia drought threatens 'catastrophic' grain harvest
Apr 13, 2023 (AFP)
At a time when the global cereals market has been disrupted by the Ukraine war, Tunisia's domestic grain production has also withered under a lack of rainfall t...
Targets for a heating planet: G7 climate commitments
Apr 13, 2023 (AFP)
Japan G7 president Japan is targeting carbon neutrality by 2050 -- a goal shared by all other members except Germany, which has a more ambitious 2045 deadline. ...
UK eco-activists rail against judge's ban on using climate defence
Apr 07, 2023 (AFP)
Nixon, a 36-year-old former social worker, was one of three protesters who refused to abide by the ban, earning him a contempt of court conviction and four week...
March heat, Antarctic ice close to records: monitor
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
"The month was jointly the second-warmest March globally," tied with 2017, 2019 and 2020, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said. The hottest March on recor...
Drought pushes Kenya's refugee mega-camp to 'breaking point'
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
Every day hundreds of desperate people arrive at Dadaab seeking food and shelter, most from across the border in Somalia, where violent instability and a record...
'Infecting minds': US book sent to teachers seeks to sow climate doubt
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
The free-market Heartland Institute drew outrage from campaigners and educators, but applause from climate skeptics, when it sent the book to more than 8,000 Am...
Emissions cuts can slash heat deaths in Mideast, N. Africa: study
Apr 03, 2023 (AFP)
A modelling study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal found slashing carbon emissions to limit the rise in Earth's average temperature to two degre...
Climate activists turn landmark Rome fountain black
Apr 01, 2023 (AFP)
Three activists from the anti-climate change organisation Last Generation poured a vegetable-based carbon liquid into the landmark 17th-century fountain, known ...
Parched Tunisia imposes water rationing
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
The North African country's dams are at critical lows following years of drought, exacerbated by pipeline leaks in a decrepit distribution network. The agricult...
NASA Releases Agency Climate Strategy
Mar 30, 2023 (SPX)
"The last nine years have been the hottest ever recorded. That is simply an indisputable fact, underscoring the need for bold action to protect our planet," sai...
UN adopts landmark resolution on climate justice
Mar 29, 2023 (AFP)
Cheers rang out as the measure -- hailed as a victory for the climate justice movement which hopes it will increase pressure on polluting countries failing to a...
'Historic': Europe rights court hears climate cases against governments
Mar 29, 2023 (AFP)
The case against Switzerland is based on a complaint by an association of elderly people -- who call themselves the "Club of Climate Seniors" -- concerned with ...
Europe rights court hears climate cases against governments
Mar 29, 2023 (AFP)
The case against Switzerland is based on a complaint by an association of elderly people -- who call themselves the "Club of Climate Seniors" -- concerned with ...
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