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EU court rejects historic citizen's climate case
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
The team behind the case said the bloc's top court earlier this month dismissed it on procedural grounds, arguing that individuals do not have the right to chal...
Counter-intuitive climate change solution
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Sustainability on May 20, describes a potential process for converting the extremely potent greenhouse gas methane into carbon di...
Aussie election could have global climate impact
May 21, 2019 (AFP)
Australia's Liberal-National coalition secured victory late on Saturday night despite polls suggesting an opposition Labor Party win. In coal-rich Queensland, v...
Drought sharpens Morocco nomads-farmers dispute
May 18, 2019 (AFP)
But the herders' determination to roam freely has brought them into dispute with crop farmers in the region of Souss. In the village of Arbaa Sahel, arable farm...
'Extreme drought' in North Korea: KCNA
May 15, 2019 (AFP)
The isolated, impoverished nation -- which is under several sets of sanctions over its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes -- has long struggled to ...
Joe Biden under pressure from left on climate change
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
"You never heard me say middle of the road. I've never been middle of the road on the environment," the former vice president, 76, said at a campaign stop in Ne...
Indigenous Australians take government to UN over climate change
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
The Torres Strait Islanders will tell the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva that rising seas caused by global warming are threatening their homelands and cult...
UN kicks off major climate change effort
May 12, 2019 (AFP)
Guterres travelled to New Zealand on Sunday, from where he is set to visit several Pacific islands where rising sea levels are threatening the very existence of...
Economic model 'transformation' needed: UN climate envoy
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
"We need bold actions," insisted Luis Alfonso de Alba, who was appointed late last year to prepare an ambitious climate summit in New York in September. In an i...
Abrupt climate change drove early South American population decline
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in Scientific Reports, is the first to demonstrate how widespread the decline was and the scale at which population decline took place 8,00...
Ireland declares climate emergency
May 10, 2019 (AFP)
An amendment to a parliamentary report declaring a "climate emergency" and calling on parliament "to examine how (the Irish government) can improve its response...
Most EU countries cut CO2 emissions last year: estimates
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
Overall EU emissions from burning oil, coal and gas were 2.5 percent lower in 2018 than the previous year, Eurostat figures showed, with 20 of the bloc's 28 cou...
Allianz aims for climate-neutral investments by 2050
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
"One of the main thrusts of our commitment to society is based on measures to combat ongoing global warming," Allianz boss Baete told the group's annual general...
Namibia declares drought a national disaster, seeks aid
May 07, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila made the announcement a day after the southern African nation launched an urgent appeal for international aid. Kuugong...
Millions hungry as drought grips Somalia: charity
May 06, 2019 (AFP)
The Norwegian Refugee Council said hundreds of thousands of children were already suffering malnutrition in Somalia and millions had abandoned their homes in se...
G7 environment ministers meet to discuss climate crisis
May 05, 2019 (AFP)
Ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States gathered for the two-day meeting in the northeastern city of Metz. They were...
House passes bill to keep US in Paris climate accord
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
The Republican-led Senate is highly unlikely to take up the measure, which would bar federal funds from being used to withdraw from the accord. But the move by ...
NASA Study: Human Influence on Global Droughts Goes Back 100 Years
May 02, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Nature, compared predicted and real-world soil moisture data to look for human influences on global drought patterns in the ...
UK becomes first parliament to declare climate emergency
May 01, 2019 (AFP)
"Thanks to pressure from the Labour Party, the UK just became the first country to declare an environment and #climateemergency," the party said on its Twitter ...
GRACE mission data contributes to our understanding of climate change
Apr 30, 2019 (SPX)
Intended to last just five years in orbit for a limited, experimental mission to measure small changes in the Earth's gravitational fields, GRACE operated for m...
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