Greenland ice cap loses enough water in 20 years to cover US: study
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) - Greenland's immense ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past 20 years to submerge the…
3 years ago
Environment
WHO warns of Covid medical waste threat
by Robin MILLARD Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that the vast amount of…
3 years ago
US to reimpose limits on power plants’ mercury emissions
WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) - The US government announced Monday it wants to revive a regulation limiting air emissions…
3 years ago
Oil spill pollutes nature reserve in Ecuadoran Amazon
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) - An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that…
3 years ago
France limits visitors to save beloved Marseille beach
MARSEILLE, France (AFP) - French authorities said Monday they would begin testing limited daily permits to visit one of the…
3 years ago
Climate change, population threaten ‘staggering’ US flood losses by 2050
by Kelly MACNAMARA Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - Climate change is on track to ramp up the annual cost of…
3 years ago
More than 9,000 tree species still undiscovered: study
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Researchers estimate there are significantly more species of trees on Earth than currently known, with…
3 years ago
Ukraine tensions jumble up Germany’s energy puzzle
by Florian CAZERES Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) - Rising tensions with Moscow over Ukraine have exposed Germany's problematic dependence…
3 years ago
Peru government says oil spill twice as big as previously thought
by Francisco JARA Agence France-Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) - The oil spill off the coast of Peru sparked by a…
3 years ago
Oil spill ‘nail in the coffin’ for Covid-hit Thai beach businesses
RAYONG, Thailand (AFP) - Oil washing up on a beach on Thailand's east coast could be the "nail in the…
3 years ago
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