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'Moral failure': Leaders seek to rally world at Amazon climate talks

Nov 06, 2025 (AFP)

Heads of state and government met in the city of Belem ahead of the UN COP30 conference, which is set to take place without the United States -- one of the nati...

Brazil's Lula urges less talk, more action at COP30 climate meet

Nov 04, 2025 (AFP)

In an interview with AFP and other news agencies, Lula, 80, promised the "best COP yet" as he prepares to host 50 heads of state at a meeting on Thursday and Fr...

World on track to dangerous warming as emissions hit record high: UN

Nov 04, 2025 (AFP)

Scientists are in broad agreement that warming above 1.5C relative to pre-industrial times risks catastrophic consequences, and every effort must be made to sti...

New study reveals source of rain is major factor behind drought risks for farmers

Nov 04, 2025 (SPX)

A new University of California San Diego study uncovers a hidden driver of global crop vulnerability: the origin of rainfall itself. Published in Nature Sustain...

Prince William brings climate mission to Brazil ahead of COP30

Nov 02, 2025 (AFP)

The future king's first visit to Brazil is centered around his annual Earthshot Prize which awards one million pounds ($1.3 million) to five pioneering projects...

US not sending any high-level officials to COP30

Nov 01, 2025 (AFP)

Trump, who withdrew from the Paris climate agreement for a second time upon his return to the White House in January, had not been expected to attend a leaders'...

Climate report: Earth on dangerous path but rapid action can avert the worst outcomes

Oct 30, 2025 (SPX)

"Without effective strategies, we will rapidly encounter escalating risks that threaten to overwhelm systems of peace, governance, and public and ecosystem heal...

Greece announces 2.5-bn-euro plan to tackle drought threat

Oct 30, 2025 (AFP)

"It may snow, it may rain... (but) hope is not a strategy," said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. "We must be prepared for the worst possible scenario." With...

Personal tipping points: Four people share their climate journeys

Oct 30, 2025 (AFP)

Even as political momentum fades, many ordinary people are demanding tougher action -- and instead of waiting around, they're starting to do things themselves. ...

UN climate fund posts record year as chief defends loans

Oct 30, 2025 (AFP)

In an interview ahead of the COP30 talks in Brazil next month, Mafalda Duarte, executive director of the Green Climate Fund, also defended the use of loans -- a...

100 US local leaders will attend COP30 in 'show of force'

Oct 30, 2025 (AFP)

"We are showing up in force," Gina McCarthy, co-chair of the "America Is All In" coalition told reporters on a call Thursday. The group represents around "two-t...

Climate inaction causing 'millions' of avoidable deaths: study

Oct 29, 2025 (AFP)

Opportunities for a "just" climate transition were still on the table but remained "largely untapped", according to the Lancet's Countdown, a major annual study...

Trump declares victory against climate 'hoax' after Bill Gates comments

Oct 29, 2025 (AFP)

"I (WE!) just won the War on the Climate Change Hoax. Bill Gates has finally admitted that he was completely WRONG on the issue," Trump said on his Truth Social...

World far off track to meet climate goals: UN

Oct 28, 2025 (AFP)

With just days to go before tense COP30 climate talks in Brazil, vulnerable small island nations slammed an "alarming" lack of new climate pledges, especially f...

Peatlands face rising threat as carbon loss accelerates during extreme droughts

Oct 27, 2025 (SPX)

A recent study published in Science demonstrates that extreme droughts, combined with elevated temperatures and higher atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, signif...

Tens of thousands in climate march before Dutch vote

Oct 26, 2025 (AFP)

Brandishing banners reading "The Planet Deserves Your Vote", "Vote Green" and "Make Earth Cool Again", demonstrators filled a central park before parading throu...

Climate change, poor planning drive Vietnam flooding

Oct 26, 2025 (AFP)

UN chief calls for 'fight' against climate disinformation

Oct 22, 2025 (AFP)

Guterres issued a robust defence of "clear-eyed" climate science and data, without which, he said, the world would never have understood the emergence of the "d...

Overshooting 1.5C climate target 'inevitable': UN chief

Oct 22, 2025 (AFP)

Ahead of next month's COP30 climate summit in Brazil, Guterres said going beyond 1.5C would result in "devastating" yet predictable impacts. "One thing is alrea...

Solar geoengineering faces daunting practical and political challenges

Oct 22, 2025 (SPX)

"Even when simulations of SAI in climate models are sophisticated, they're necessarily going to be idealized," explained V. Faye McNeill, an atmospheric chemist...