Environment

Extreme Greenland ice melt raised global flood risk: study

by Patrick GALEY Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - The 3.5 trillion tonnes of Greenland's ice sheet that has melted…

COP26 leaders vow new drive to save forests, pledge to end deforestation by 2030

by Jitendra JOSHI / Patrick GALEY Agence France Presse GLASGOW, United Kingdom (AFP) -- World leaders will conclude a two-day…

Climate change main cause of fires in US west: study

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- Climate change caused overwhelmingly by human activity is the primary source of the unprecedented…

Madagascar: Severe drought could spur world’s first climate change famine

21 October 2021 More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become…

Drought to downpour: California weather whiplash is climate change sentinel

  by Paula RAMON Agence France Presse LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) -- It had been completely dry in Sacramento…

Gas giants: Can we stop cows from emitting so much methane?

  by Myriam LEMETAYER Agence France Presse That cow may look peaceful and harmless, munching on some grass in a…

No tilling, no chemicals in S.African farmer’s revolution

by Linda Givetash and Griffin Shea in Johannesburg Agence France-Presse BALFOR, South Africa (AFP) - It's spring in South Africa,…

Activist fund says Royal Dutch Shell should break itself up

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) - A leading activist investor called Wednesday for Royal Dutch Shell to break itself up,…

India vows to take up ‘climate justice’ combat at COP26

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) - India will be a fighter for "climate justice" at the upcoming COP26 summit, seeking to…

Sinkholes on receding Dead Sea shore mark ‘nature’s revenge’

by Claire GOUNON EIN GEDI, Israel (AFP) -- In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers…

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