Singapore to ban sale of elephant ivory from 2021
SINGAPORE, Singapore (AFP) -- Singapore said Monday it will impose a blanket ban on the domestic sale of elephant…
5 years ago
Environment
Trash for tickets on Indonesia’s ‘plastic bus’
by Harry PEARL JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) -- Dozens of people clutching bags full of plastic bottles and disposable cups queue…
5 years ago
‘Siberia is burning’: Russians choke on forest fire smog
by Ekaterina ANISIMOVA BOGUCHANY, Russia (AFP) -- Svetlana Tuflyakova is in a hurry as she pushes her small son in…
5 years ago
Quarter of world’s population facing extreme water stress
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Nearly a quarter of the world's population lives in 17 countries facing extremely high water…
5 years ago
July hottest month measured, 2019 set to be among warmest years
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) -- July was the hottest month across the globe ever measured, and 2019 is…
5 years ago
Crocodiles hunt in flooded Indian city
VADODARA, India (AFP) -- Crocodiles hunted dogs in the flooded streets of the Indian city of Vadodara after it was…
5 years ago
Asian countries turning back wealthy world’s waste
PARIS, France (AFP) -- Several Southeast Asian countries, sick of being the wealthy world's rubbish dump, have in recent weeks…
5 years ago
Siberia forest fires spark potential ‘disaster’ for Arctic
by Maria PANINA MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) -- Gigantic forest fires have regularly raged through the vast expanses of Russia's Siberia,…
5 years ago
Record 42.6C in Paris as Europe heatwave hits blistering peak
by Stuart WILLIAMS PARIS, France (AFP) -- Paris on Thursday baked in an all-time high temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius…
5 years ago
End in sight for US heat wave that set temperature records
by Brian KNOWLTON WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- The United States sweltered in dangerously hot weather on Sunday, with major…
5 years ago
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