Spanish teenager collapses, dies from heat
MADRID, Spain (AFP) -- A 17-year-old harvest worker has died from heat stroke in Spain, local authorities said, in the…
7 years ago
climate
Searing heat across Europe sparks scramble for shade
by Joseph Schmid PARIS, France (AFP) -- Fans flew off store shelves and water fountains offered relief from the heat…
7 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…
7 years ago
Grandma Ca: the 99-year-old standing up to Vietnam’s coal rush
by Tran Thi Minh Ha, with Jenny Vaughan in Tuy Phong VIETNAM (AFP) -- Toothless and nearly blind, grandmother Pham…
7 years ago
Mineral misery: Vietnam salt farmers battered by imports, climate
by Jenny VAUGHAN / Tran Thi Minh Ha HON KOI, Vietnam (AFP) -- The salt farmers of Hon Khoi rise…
7 years ago
Fear of change: Negative politics wins Australia election
Australia's conservative government held on to power at national elections thanks to a highly effective negative campaign warning voters against…
7 years ago
UN chief’s call to ‘save the Pacific to save the world’
PORT VILA, Vanuatu (AFP) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was vital "to save the Pacific to save…
7 years ago
Alaska’s thaw threatens prehistoric sites once frozen in time
by Jocelyne Zablit Agence France Presse QUINHAGAK, United States (AFP) -- The first artifact -- a wooden mask --…
7 years ago
Antarctic penguins suffer ‘catastrophic’ breeding failure
The second largest Emperor penguin colony on Earth has suffered a "catastrophic" breeding failure after nearly all chicks born over…
7 years ago
Tropical forest the size of England destroyed in 2018: report
by Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) -- Last year humanity destroyed an expanse of tropical forest…
7 years ago
Researchers calculate decades of ‘scary’ Greenland ice melting
by Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Measuring melting ice is a fairly precise business in 2019 -- thanks…
7 years ago
Nearly 300 arrested at London climate protests
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) -- Nearly 300 people have been arrested in ongoing climate change protests in London that brought…
7 years ago
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