Bulgaria coal miners brace for ‘disaster’ as phaseout looms
by Rossen BOSSEV Agence France-Presse STARA ZAGORA, Bulgaria (AFP) - Nikolay Dinev, 34, has worked as a coal miner for…
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Coal workers feel pain of France’s climate goals
by Estelle EMONET Agence France-Presse GARDANNE, France (AFP) - The Gardanne smokestack is the highest in France at 295 metres (975…
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Damaged Amazon rainforest teetering on the brink
by Joshua Howat Berger Agence France-Presse SAO FELIX DO XINGU, Brazil (AFP) - Something is wrong. Holed up in her lab,…
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Planet vs people as Panama’s mangroves are turned into coal
by Moises AVILA Agence France-Presse Elieser Rodriguez emerges blackened from the thick smoke of burning pyres slowly transforming the limbs…
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For Stella McCartney, fashion must ditch leather or die trying
by Jordi ZAMORA Agence France-Presse GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) - The fashion industry must prepare to eliminate waste and take…
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WHO grants India’s Covaxin jab emergency approval
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) -- The World Health Organization on Wednesday issued an emergency use listing for the India-made Covaxin vaccine,…
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Insulin maker Novo Nordisk raises full-year targets
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) -- Danish pharmaceuticals group Novo Nordisk, the world's leading insulin maker, said Wednesday it is raising its…
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US father of cognitive therapy dies at 100
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck, considered the father of cognitive therapy -- an approach developed…
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UK to unveil plan for first ‘net zero’ financial centre
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Finance minister Rishi Sunak is to announce plans to make Britain the world's first net…
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The women guarding India’s rainforest ‘refugees’
by Laurence THOMANN Agence France-Presse WAYANAD, India (AFP) - As deforestation and climate change ravage India's UNESCO heritage-listed Western Ghats…
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