Environment

Oil-rich UAE to burn waste to make power

by Carolyn Lamboley Agence France-Presse SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates (AFP) - With rubbish piling up in the desert, the United Arab…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Poland’s ‘priceless’ primeval forest pits environmentalists against state

by Bernard OSSER Agence France-Presse TEREMISKI, Poland (AFP) - Stopping by a giant oak tree in Europe's largest surviving primeval…

Major methane deal at climate summit — without China

by Patrick GALEY and Jitendra JOSH Agence France-Presse GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) - Countries on Tuesday issued a landmark pledge…

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