Himalayan glaciers melting twice as fast: study
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Himalayan glaciers are melting twice as fast now as they were before the turn of…
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Environment
Greenland ice sheet melting faster than thought: study
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Greenland's ice sheet may have completely melted within the next millennium if greenhouse gas emissions…
5 years ago
Getting to zero: the Japan town trying to recycle all its waste
https://youtu.be/Gw8qoWGaS-Y by Natsuko FUKUE Agence France Presse Kamikatsu, Japan (AFP) -- Plastic, paper, metal? In Japan's Kamikatsu, sorting rubbish isn't…
5 years ago
Do you consume a credit card’s worth of plastic every week?
https://youtu.be/UznpIe5wKkg by Marlowe HOOD Agence France Presse Paris, France (AFP) -- People worldwide could be ingesting five grammes of microscopic…
5 years ago
Canada to ban single-use plastics from 2021
by Jacques LEMIEUX MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) -- Canada will ban single-use plastics from 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday,…
5 years ago
Bloomberg pledges $500m to clean energy in ‘fight of our time’
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) -- US billionaire Michael Bloomberg said Thursday he will spend half a billion dollars…
5 years ago
Days are numbered for Norway’s fur farms
BRUMUNDDAL, Norway (AFP) - Baby minks, their skin still smooth and furless, snuggle up against one another under a pile…
5 years ago
India heatwave takes temperatures near record highs
CHURU, India (AFP) -- Temperatures in an Indian desert city hit 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) for the second time…
5 years ago
You can have your plate and eat it too, says Polish inventor
by Damien SIMONART Agence France Presse ZAMBROW, Poland (AFP) -- Polish inventor and entrepreneur Jerzy Wysocki catches a brown plate…
5 years ago
Two rare white tiger cubs find new home in Nicaragua
MASAYA, Nicaragua (AFP) -- Two white tiger cubs have been taken to their new home at the Nicaragua National Zoo,…
5 years ago
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