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London police begin clearing climate protests
Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)
A total of 471 people were arrested in the British capital, where the Extinction Rebellion movement was born last year, since structures were erected near parli...
Global climate 'rebellion' sees mass arrests and blocked roads
Oct 07, 2019 (AFP)
The demonstrations, triggered by the group Extinction Rebellion, were mostly limited to a few hundred people in each city, far from the size of last month's mas...
Commonwealth targets climate change with regeneration projects
Oct 04, 2019 (AFP)
The 53-country bloc held a two-day brainstorming of indigenous groups, environmentalists, scientists and climate change experts at its headquarters in London. T...
Hot air? Qatar claims stadium cooling not eco risk
Sep 27, 2019 (AFP)
Organisers insist they have taken steps to mitigate the impact of the athletics showcase and that the far larger 2022 football World Cup, also due to be held in...
Greta Thunberg's 'How dare you?' a major moment for climate movement
Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)
Though her words did not seem to move the leaders who spoke after her, her speech of only four and a half minutes immediately went viral, racking up tens of tho...
Australia PM lashes climate critics in UN speech
Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)
Morrison, who snubbed a major UN climate summit two days earlier, also said the Great Barrier Reef was "vibrant and resilient", weeks after his own government d...
Oceans, climate report approved after all-night standoff: delegates
Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)
"Gavelled! The IPCC Special Report on the #Ocean and #Cryosphere is approved!", Jean-Pierre Gattuso, a French scientist and one of the report many authors, twee...
New evidence of the Sahara's age
Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)
"People have been trying to figure it out for several decades," said Daniel Muhs, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, Colorado. "More recent ...
Is theory on Earth's climate in the last 15 million years wrong?
Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)
The study in the journal Nature Geoscience could shed more light on the causes of long-term climate change. It centers on the long-term cooling that occurred be...
Bats starving to death in Australia drought
Sep 24, 2019 (AFP)
There has been a "rapid increase" in the number of stricken native flying foxes found in areas of Queensland and New South Wales over the past two weeks, rescue...
'People are dying': Teen activist urges new climate action at UN
Sep 23, 2019 (UPI)
The leaders were implored to act -- and chastised for not acting sooner -- in a speech by 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg. "You are failing us," Thu...
Russia joins Paris climate accord
Sep 23, 2019 (AFP)
The document signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says that Russia is formally accepting the 2015 Paris agreement and will now "allocate financial resources...
From the streets to the summit: young climate leaders mobilize at UN
Sep 21, 2019 (AFP)
The UN has invited 500 young activists and entrepreneurs to take part in the New York meeting, the first of its kind, though some were unable to attend after be...
World leaders to present carbon reduction plans at U.N. summit
Sep 20, 2019 (UPI)
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has called on leaders to arrive with detailed plans for emissions reductions. The meeting will follow a global protest ...
Marathon Merkel govt talks drag as climate deal proves elusive
Sep 20, 2019 (AFP)
The plan, which covers a slew of measures from tackling emissions in the energy and industrial sectors, to incentives for zero-emission electic vehicles or publ...
Amazon pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
"We want to use our scope and our scale to lead the way," Bezos told a news conference in the US capital, aiming to shake off the firm's reputation as a laggard...
'Day Zero' looms in Australian Outback as climate change bites
Sep 19, 2019 (AFP)
From sunny Queensland all the way to Sydney, more than a dozen small towns are facing their own "Day Zero" within months, a water crisis reminiscent of the taps...
New EU Commission faces turning climate pledges into reality
Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)
The challenge has become all the more urgent as scientists say current UN projections of global warming are outdated and that average temperatures are rising fa...
Under-pressure Merkel govt to unveil climate strategy
Sep 17, 2019 (AFP)
Days before a UN climate summit in New York, Merkel's team was due to announce details as the top EU economy, once a green energy pioneer, is bound to miss its ...
Over next two weeks, New York global epicenter of climate fight
Sep 17, 2019 (AFP)
The headline event takes place September 23 when UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will likely re-state four key demands: quit new coal by 2020, achieve car...
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