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Oceans key to global warming fight: US climate envoy
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
The interview, on the margins of the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon, has been edited for length. Q. This meeting has no negotiating agenda. How will it feed into...
UN meet sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans
Jun 28, 2022 (AFP)
UN chief Antonio Guterres set the tone Monday for the five-day meet by warning that the world's oceans are in deep crisis. "Today we face what I would call an o...
Ailing oceans in the spotlight at major UN meet
Jun 27, 2022 (AFP)
Humanity needs healthy oceans. They generate 50 percent of the oxygen we breathe and provide essential protein and nutrients to billions of people every day. Co...
US to work with Taiwan, Vietnam against illegal fishing
Jun 27, 2022 (AFP)
As a major UN conference opened in Portugal on restoring the planet's ailing oceans, US President Joe Biden signed a memorandum that aimed to step up coordinati...
Oceans saved us, now we can return the favour
Jun 25, 2022 (AFP)
By absorbing -- decade after decade -- a quarter of CO2 pollution and more than 90 percent of excess heat from global warming, oceans have kept Earth's terrestr...
Norsk Hydro sued over alleged river contamination in Brazil
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
Nine victims and an association said to represent around 11,000 indigenous families from the northeastern Brazilian river port of Barcarena are suing Norsk, sev...
Drought hits Italy's hydroelectric plants
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
Hydropower facilities, mostly located in the mountains in the country's north, provide almost one fifth of Italy's energy demands. But the lack of rain is causi...
UN: 3.5 mn Bangladeshi children lack safe water after floods
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
UNICEF, the UN children's agency, said it needed $2.5 million quickly in order to fund its emergency response. Monsoon storms in Bangladesh and India have kille...
Swimming and surfing, Gazans savour a cleaner sea
Jun 24, 2022 (AFP)
"It has been a year since I entered the water," said 22-year-old surfer Sabah Abu Ghanem. "As soon as I enter the water and ride the waves, I feel free and happ...
An amazing symbiotic relationship in the deep sea
Jun 23, 2022 (SPX)
The anemone occupies the entire top of the hermit crab's shell, attaching itself by means of a hard shell-like secretion called a carcinoecium. This phenomenon ...
Dead rivers: The cost of Bangladesh's garment-driven economic boom
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
The 52-year-old has constant cough, allergies and skin rashes, and doctors have told him the vile-smelling sludge that has also wiped out marine life in one of ...
Honduran hydroelectric executive jailed for environmentalist murder
Jun 21, 2022 (AFP)
A judge last July had ruled that Roberto David Castillo, a former member of the armed forces who graduated from the West Point military academy in New York, was...
Hong Kong floating restaurant sinks in South China Sea
Jun 20, 2022 (AFP)
It capsized on Sunday near the Paracel Islands after it "encountered adverse conditions" and began to take on water, Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises announced i...
US, Marshall Islands eye new security deal by year end
Jun 18, 2022 (AFP)
A 20-year funding deal for the Pacific island state runs out at the end of 2023, and the first round of talks on a new accord took place this week. After a firs...
Australia parries China security move in Solomons
Jun 17, 2022 (AFP)
Foreign Minister Penny Wong delivered the message on a one-day visit to the capital Honiara, the latest destination in a South Pacific travel blitz to parry Chi...
WTO fishing deal hailed as historic though 'not perfect'
Jun 17, 2022 (AFP)
Negotiations towards banning subsidies that encourage overfishing and threaten the sustainability of the planet's fish stocks had been going on at the World Tra...
Italy's Po Valley rations water amid record drought
Jun 16, 2022 (AFP)
"It's an extremely delicate situation," regional chief Attilio Fontana told reporters as the valley, which stretches across the north and houses a crucial agric...
Researchers reveal add-on benefits of natural defenses against sea-level rise
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
The research, published June 9 in Urban Sustainability, shows that nature-based solutions, such as conserving marshlands and restoring beaches, can be as effect...
The structure of cluster merger shocks
Jun 13, 2022 (SPX)
Specifically, phytoplankton are about 65% less productive in the Gulf of Maine than they were two decades ago, scientists at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Scienc...
Fiji's biggest threat 'climate change, not conflict'
Jun 12, 2022 (AFP)
This weekend's Shangri-La Dialogue, which brings together defence ministers from around the world, has seen sparring between Washington and Beijing over Taiwan ...
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