Funding needed to tackle life-shortening air pollution: report
by Natalie HANDEL PARIS, France (AFP) -- Even as air pollution shaves years off life expectancy, fossil fuel projects get…
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Environment
Crews work to contain oil spill in Gulf after Ida’s passage
WASHINGTON D.C., United States (AFP) - Workers have deployed containment booms and skimmer devices as they attempt to contain a…
3 years ago
Conservation meet mulls plan to protect 80% of Amazon
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse MARSEILLE, France (AFP) - Should 80 percent of the Amazon be declared a protected area…
3 years ago
Climate action cannot wait for pandemic to end, medical journals warn
PARIS, France (AFP) -- Global warming is already affecting people's health so much that emergency action on climate change cannot…
3 years ago
Swiss glaciologist bears witness to relentless Alpine glacier melt
by Eloi ROUYER Agence France-Presse SWITZERLAND (AFP) — After hiking for hours across the mountain and a vast expanse of…
3 years ago
Rapid Arctic warming triggers extreme winter events in US: study
by Lucie AUBOURG Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON D.C., United States (AFP) — Rapid warming of the Arctic is likely a key…
3 years ago
Colombian photographer documents world’s largest variety of butterflies
by Hector Velasco JARDIN, Colombia (AFP) -- Like the more than 3,000 species of butterflies in Colombia, agronomist Juan Guillermo…
3 years ago
Climate and weather related disasters surge five-fold over 50 years, but early warnings save lives – WMO report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrLaT1wyLaE Climate change and increasingly extreme weather events, have caused a surge in natural disasters over the past 50…
3 years ago
Weather, climate disasters surge fivefold in 50 years: UN
by Nina LARSON Agence France Presse Weather-related disasters have skyrocketed over the past half-century, causing far more damage even…
3 years ago
Sri Lanka reports rare birth of elephant twins
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AFP) -- Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage recorded a rare twin birth Tuesday as a 25-year-old named…
3 years ago
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