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After year of climate disasters, world off-track to curb warming
Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)
The year did see some important progress, with major new legislation particularly in the United States and Europe as well as a deal at UN talks to help vulnerab...
US biology textbooks have less climate content than decade ago: study
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, also found that climate change has been consistently pushed further towards the back of textbooks over the last fi...
Red Cross fears enormous suffering in 2023
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
Mirjana Spoljaric, who took over at the ICRC in October, told a Geneva press conference: "We expect an enormous level of suffering. "As the world is trending at...
More financing needed for IMF climate change fund: director
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
Several countries have won loan deals from the International Monetary Fund's Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), but global leaders are urging that more ...
Climate activist who blocked Sydney Harbour Bridge freed on bail
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
Deanna "Violet" Coco was sentenced on December 2 in a ruling pilloried as "outrageous" and "repressive" by rights groups. The 32-year-old parked a rental truck ...
ZEP-RE and Planet collaborate on drought insurance program in Africa
Dec 13, 2022 (SPX)
ZEP-RE aims to leverage PlanetScope 3-5 meter resolution imagery through Planet's analysis-ready, Surface Reflectance Basemaps products. Using pre-processed, Ba...
Climate-stressed Iraq must pursue 'green growth': World Bank
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
In a new report presented to authorities in Baghdad, the Washington-based institution said $233 billion must be invested by 2040 to allow Iraq to embark "on a g...
German police target climate activists in raids
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
Eleven sites were targeted in the searches across the country, the prosecutor of Neuruppin district, in Brandenburg state, told AFP. The investigation concerns ...
Kenya drought leaves wildlife gasping for breath
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
"I used to wear a face mask because of the smell of rotting animals, but now I am used to it," the 37-year-old told AFP, his voice thick with sadness. In southe...
Prince William awards Earthshot prizes as US visit wraps up
Dec 03, 2022 (AFP)
Britain's heir to the throne rewarded five entrepreneurs with 1 million each ($1.2 million) as part of his Earthshot Prize initiative to support efforts to save...
How film and TV can help the climate change battle
Nov 30, 2022 (AFP)
Analysing a database of 37,453 film and TV scripts from 2016 to 2020, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) found that just 1,046 -- 2.8 pe...
Twin crises: experts say nature and climate can't be siloed
Nov 25, 2022 (AFP)
Some say delegates at the COP27 summit missed a key opportunity to acknowledge the connection between the twin climate and nature crises, which many believe hav...
Tanzania starts rationing power because of drought
Nov 23, 2022 (AFP)
The East African nation has the capacity to generate nearly 1,695 megawatts through hydropower, natural gas and other means. But it is currently facing a shorta...
COP27 summit strikes historic deal to fund climate damages
Nov 20, 2022 (AFP)
The two-week talks, which at times appeared to teeter on the brink of collapse, delivered a major breakthrough on a fund for climate "loss and damage". Pakistan...
Joy, relief at 'historic' climate damages deal
Nov 20, 2022 (AFP)
Their final push took barely two weeks. The "loss and damage" inflicted by climate-induced disasters was not even officially up for discussion when UN talks in ...
No way to run a COP: climate summit host Egypt gets bad marks
Nov 20, 2022 (AFP)
As the negotiations drew to a close nearly two days late with a historic win for vulnerable countries on funding for climate "loss and damage", exhausted delega...
Climate fund breakthrough offers 'hope' at UN COP27 talks
Nov 19, 2022 (AFP)
Nearly 200 countries' representatives have gathered at the COP27 in Egypt for two weeks with the aim of driving forward action to fight climate change as the wo...
Australia aims to host 2026 UN climate summit
Nov 19, 2022 (AFP)
"It is a good opportunity, I believe, for Australia to show and to host what is a major global event," Albanese said during a visit to Bangkok. Centre-left Alba...
Climate disinfo during COP27: five top themes
Nov 18, 2022 (AFP)
Monitors have "seen a resurgence of climate denial", said Jennie King, head of civic action at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), which was monitoring ...
Climate change 'main threat' for world heritage sites
Nov 18, 2022 (AFP)
Built in around 3000 BC by the Indus civilisation in modern-day South Asia, Mohenjo Daro was not swept away by the floods, most likely thanks to the genius of i...
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