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Washington, D.C. — In a decisive legislative move with far-reaching global implications, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday to advance a bipartisan bill requiring the president to formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a...
Al-Yurae-Khartoum — Sudan’s Minister of Animal Resources and Fisheries, Ahmed Al-Tijani Al-Mansouri, announced the launch of a new five-year executive strategy aimed at modernizing and revitalizing the livestock and fisheries sectors—two of the country’s most vital economic...

Fossil fuel showdown looms on UN climate summit’s final day

Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – A breach, a blockade, and a blaze: tumultuous UN climate talks head into their final day Friday in the Brazilian Amazon,...

Without US satellites, ‘we go dark’, climate monitor tells AFP

Paris (AFP) – US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to...

Ethiopia set to host UN’s 2027 climate summit

Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – Uncertainty still surrounds which country will host next year's UN climate conference: Australia or Turkey. But for 2027, there's little mystery:...

Demand for air con set to triple by 2050, warns UN

Geneva (AFP) – Global demand for air conditioning could more than triple by 2050, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, calling for more sustainable cooling...

Amazon poised to host toughest climate talks in years

Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – An odor of oil hung over last year's UN climate conference in Baku, capital of fossil fuel-rich Azerbaijan. Starting Monday, the 50,000...

World leaders ditch ties at sweaty climate summit

Belém (Brazil) (AFP) – Diplomacy ditched its stuffy tie for once at a climate meeting in Belem, Brazil, where Thursday's Amazonian heat saw leaders and...

Trees, targets and trillions: what’s on the agenda at COP30?

Paris (AFP) – This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the...

Camels replace cows as Kenya battles drought

Samburu (Kenya) (AFP) – "God, God, God, protect them," chanted two herders, their eyes following a dozen camels rushing toward acacia trees, oblivious to the...

100 US local leaders will attend COP30 in ‘show of force’

Washington (AFP) – More than a hundred American state and local leaders will attend next month's COP30 climate talks in Brazil, including governors, state officials...

Scrapped by Trump, revived US climate-disaster database reveals record losses

Washington (AFP) – A flagship US climate-disaster database killed by President Donald Trump's administration has been brought back to life by its former lead scientist...

World’s coral reefs crossing survival limit: global experts

Paris (AFP) – The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can...

Brazil’s climate wins ahead of COP30

Brasília (AFP) – Brazil's president has slashed deforestation in the Amazon and worked to better protect Indigenous people, giving him a generally positive environmental record...

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