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Desertification talks open in Saudi Arabia as experts fire warning

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – UN talks aimed at halting the degradation and desertification of vast swathes of land start in Saudi Arabia on Monday...

Future of deep-sea mining stands at a crucial juncture

United Nations (United States) (AFP) – Torn between the defenders of the world's seabeds and industrialists eager to exploit the vast, untapped resources of the...

Reuters: Global coral bleaching expands, now the largest on record

(Reuters) – The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic...

Brasilia wildfire rages across national park, threatening protected environments

Wildfires continue to devastate Brazil's vital ecological landscapes amid the country's worst-ever recorded drought, with the latest – apparently man-made – fire engulfing the...

What Greenland’s nine-day mega-tsunami tells us about climate change

A seismic signal heard across the world last September for nine days has been traced back to a trapped tsunami triggered by a landslide...

‘Not the end of the world’, says data scientist on the big issues

Paris (AFP) – Humanity has made great strides in recent decades: air is cleaner; poverty, deforestation and childhood mortality have fallen; gasoline cars -- and...

How restoration can help coral reefs

Koh Tao (Thailand) (AFP) – Record-high sea temperatures are bleaching coral reefs worldwide and putting a new focus on attempts to restore these key marine...

Paris Olympics promise climate action, experts remain sceptical

Paris (AFP) – Organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympics promised to take "unprecedented" action for the climate by halving the carbon footprint of previous Games...

Climate change made deadly heat 35x more likely in US, Mexico, C. America

Washington (AFP) – Deadly heat that blanketed the United States, Mexico and Central America recently was made 35 times more likely due to global warming,...

Activist arrested for attacking Monet painting in Paris

Paris (AFP) – A climate activist was arrested on Saturday for sticking an adhesive poster on a Monet painting at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris...

Climate change caused 26 extra days of extreme heat in last year: report

Paris (AFP) – The world experience an average of 26 more days of extreme heat over the last 12 months that would probably not have...

Sean Baker’s sex-worker romance ‘Anora’ wins Palme d’Or in Cannes

Sean Baker’s “Anora”, a whirlwind Brooklyn odyssey about an erotic dancer who marries the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch, won the Palme d’Or...

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