Environment

Greenland ice cap loses enough water in 20 years to cover US: study

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP) - Greenland's immense ice sheet has lost enough ice in the past 20 years to submerge the…

WHO warns of Covid medical waste threat

by Robin MILLARD Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - The World Health Organization warned Tuesday that the vast amount of…

US to reimpose limits on power plants’ mercury emissions

WASHINGTON, D.C., United States (AFP) - The US government announced Monday it wants to revive a regulation limiting air emissions…

Oil spill pollutes nature reserve in Ecuadoran Amazon

QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) - An oil spill in eastern Ecuador has reached a nature reserve and polluted a river that…

France limits visitors to save beloved Marseille beach

MARSEILLE, France (AFP) - French authorities said Monday they would begin testing limited daily permits to visit one of the…

Climate change, population threaten ‘staggering’ US flood losses by 2050

by Kelly MACNAMARA Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) - Climate change is on track to ramp up the annual cost of…

More than 9,000 tree species still undiscovered: study

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Researchers estimate there are significantly more species of trees on Earth than currently known, with…

Ukraine tensions jumble up Germany’s energy puzzle

by Florian CAZERES Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) - Rising tensions with Moscow over Ukraine have exposed Germany's problematic dependence…

Peru government says oil spill twice as big as previously thought

by Francisco JARA Agence France-Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) - The oil spill off the coast of Peru sparked by a…

Oil spill ‘nail in the coffin’ for Covid-hit Thai beach businesses

RAYONG, Thailand (AFP) - Oil washing up on a beach on Thailand's east coast could be the "nail in the…

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