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Climate change is speeding up, warns major UN report
Nov 06, 2022 (AFP)
Sea level rise, glacier melt, torrential rains, heat waves -- and the deadly disasters they cause -- have all accelerated, the World Meteorological Organization...
Hundreds arrested after Schiphol climate protest
Nov 05, 2022 (AFP)
The protesters ran onto the tarmac at around 1200 GMT before sitting in front of private planes parked on the apron, including a Royal Canadian Air Force C-130 ...
Scientists urge COP27 PR agency to drop fossil fuel firms
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
The firm, Hill+Knowlton, is the leading PR agency at the upcoming UN climate talks (COP27) in Sharm el-Sheikh opening Sunday. Hundreds of leading scientists sai...
Egypt's COP27 climate summit comes at a 'watershed moment'
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
Expectations are high from a world justifiably anxious about its climate-addled future as deadly floods, heat waves and storms across the planet track worst-cas...
Egypt's COP27 climate summit a 'watershed moment'
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
Expectations are running high in a world justifiably anxious about its climate-addled future as deadly floods, heat waves and storms across the planet track wit...
UK's Sunak U-turns on attending COP27 in Egypt; As Israel withdraws following election
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
Sunak had argued that "pressing domestic commitments" would keep him away from COP27 in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh -- after inheriting an economic cr...
Netherlands jails activists who targeted Vermeer masterpiece
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
Three men in their forties from neighbouring Belgium were arrested last week after the attack on the 1665 painting at the city's Mauritshuis museum to raise awa...
Europe temperature rise more than twice global average: UN
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
The European region has on average seen temperatures rise 0.5 degrees Celsius each decade since 1991, the UN's World Meteorological Organization and the Europea...
Kerry sees Brazil, Mexico rising climate hopes ahead of summit
Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)
Kerry also gave his firmest indication yet that the United States was willing to engage on compensating poor nations that have already been hit hard by climate ...
Calls for Egypt protests trigger security clampdown ahead of COP27
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
The measures, which have included random phone searches and summons for interrogation, began in October, according to prominent opposition lawyer Khaled Ali. "A...
UK's Johnson to attend COP27 summit in Egypt
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
Johnson told Sky News in his first interview since stepping down as prime minister in September that he had been "invited by the Egyptians" to the COP27 summit ...
Colombia declares rainfall disaster
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
Rain levels recorded in 2022 so far have been "the highest in the last 40 years," he told reporters in Bogota before departing for Venezuela for a meeting with ...
Egypt president invites Brazil's Lula to COP27
Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)
Election officials in Brazil on Sunday declared leftist Lula won in a run-off against his far-right rival. A spokesperson for Lula -- who is not due to formally...
Scholz chides climate activists for targeting artworks
Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)
"I am very sad about what is happening and very glad that it has not come to the point where an irreplaceable artwork has been permanently damaged," Scholz told...
Paris museum says painting was target of attempted attack
Oct 30, 2022 (AFP)
The museum refused to say which painting was targeted but it is home to artwork by some of the most famous European artists including Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin...
Stop 'counterproductive' attacks on famous paintings, says art world
Oct 29, 2022 (AFP)
While some of the major French and British museums interviewed by AFP, including the Louvre, the National Gallery and the Tate in London, are keeping a low prof...
Biden will attend COP27 climate summit: White House
Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)
The COP27 conference will once more seek to boost global efforts to slow the climate crisis that is intensifying natural disasters, from wildfires to severe sto...
UK's Sunak criticised over plan to skip attending COP27
Oct 27, 2022 (AFP)
Britain hosted the last such summit, COP26, when it stressed the importance of global leaders convening to discuss climate change amid growing criticism of thei...
Climate plans would allow up to 2.6C of global warming: UN
Oct 27, 2022 (AFP)
The United Nations Environment Programme, in its annual Emissions Gap report, found that updated national promises since last year's COP26 summit in Glasgow wou...
US backs discussing payments to poor countries at climate talks
Oct 26, 2022 (AFP)
The countries most vulnerable to climate change are also those that contribute the least to it, and they are demanding financial compensation specifically for w...
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