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Prince William cites queen's love for environment in climate plea
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
The prince, now heir to the throne after Queen Elizabeth II's death, sent a pre-recorded video message to an innovation summit in New York for the annual Earths...
Too weak to cry: famine looms over Somalia's children
Sep 20, 2022 (AFP)
The Horn of Africa nation is on the brink of a second famine in just over a decade, enduring its worst drought in 40 years after failed rainy seasons since late...
Poorest nations to push on compensation at climate talks
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
Ministers and experts from the 46-nation Least Developed Countries (LDC) bloc, meeting in Dakar, said their countries were most exposed to climate impact but le...
Kerry urges rich-poor unity on climate effort ahead of UN talks
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
Meeting African environment ministers, Kerry acknowledged the historic role of wealthy countries in stoking climate change but said tackling today's emissions w...
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, the reluctant businessman
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
It's an unusual move in the United States, a thoroughly capitalist society, but it's completely on brand for the California resident. "I've been a businessman f...
New UNICEF ambassador seeks to give louder voice to climate change victims
Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)
It is for such children, whose lives have been shattered by the global climate crisis, that Nakate, UNICEF's newest Goodwill Ambassador, has set out to make the...
World in 'wrong direction' as climate impacts worsen: UN
Sep 13, 2022 (AFP)
The UN's World Meteorological Organization and its Environment Programme warned catastrophes will become commonplace should the world economy fail to decarbonis...
Egypt environment groups in 'fear' ahead of COP27: HRW
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
The UN's annual Conference of the Parties (COP) involves nearly 200 countries, with hundreds of observers, NGOs and -- very often -- mass demonstrations designe...
Australia passes landmark climate change bill
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
The legislation, a key election promise of Australia's new centre-left Labor government, aims to slash emissions in the carbon-intensive economy by 43 percent f...
Middle East heating nearly twice as fast as global average: report
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
Barring swift policy changes, its more than 400 million people face extreme heatwaves, prolonged droughts and sea level rises, said the report released ahead of...
Risk of climate tipping points escalates at 1.5C warming: study
Sep 08, 2022 (AFP)
Even current levels of warming have already put the world at risk of five major tipping points -- including the collapse of the Antarctic and Greenland ice shee...
Many may already have 'starved to death' in Somalia: WHO
Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)
The United Nations has warned that Somalia is on the brink of famine for the second time in just over a decade, with 200,000 people in danger of starvation in t...
G7 corporate climate plans spell 2.7C heating: analysis
Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)
As more and more firms announce their intention to become carbon neutral by mid-century at the latest, scrutinising corporate claims of green action is increasi...
Lake Urmia risks fully drying up: Iran wetlands chief
Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)
The warning comes just four years after a Japanese government-funded programme had raised hopes of stabilising what was once the Middle East's largest lake and ...
UN pleads for Somalia aid, Over 700 children found dead in nutrition centres
Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)
Appearing in a video press conference from the capital Mogadishu, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths recalled the story of a two-...
African leaders slam Western absence from climate summit
Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)
Senegalese President and African Union chief Macky Sall, and Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi said wealthy countries responsible for most CO2 emissions shou...
Gone in 30 years? The Welsh village in crosshairs of climate change
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
Otherwise, like many residents in Fairbourne, northwest Wales, she tries not to worry that rising sea levels are predicted to swamp the village. A decade ago, F...
New Zealand winter warmest, wettest on record
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
For the third year in a row, New Zealand recorded its warmest winter since temperature records began in 1909. Researchers at the National Institute of Water and...
Climate activists target UK parliament
Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)
"Just before noon today (1100 GMT), a group of around fifty people took nonviolent action at the House of Commons," the group said in a statement. "The parliame...
England's drought-hit summer 2022 joint hottest on record
Sep 01, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement comes with most of England and Wales gripped by drought after exceptionally high temperatures and several heatwaves alongside minimal rainfall,...
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