Displaced by flooding, Nigerians in desperate need of help
Ahoada, Nigeria | AFP | by Alexandre MARTINS LOPES It was pitch black when the waters came, forcing mother Fortune Lawrence…
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Environment
Vietnam’s ‘wave of repression’ threatens climate goals: rights groups
Hanoi, Vietnam | AFP | A "new wave of repression" in Vietnam is jeopardising progress in tackling climate change, human…
4 years ago
Climate change puts one billion children at ‘extreme risk’: watchdog
The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | Some one billion children are at "extremely high risk" due to climate change…
4 years ago
Floods swallow cars, swamp houses in ‘major’ Australian emergency
Melbourne, Australia | AFP | Flash floods swamped hundreds of homes in southeastern Australia Friday with waterlogged residents now facing…
4 years ago
Floods force evacuations in Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) -- Thousands were warned to flee their homes in southeastern Australia on Friday to escape surging floodwaters…
4 years ago
Ecuador investigates killing of four Galapagos giant tortoises
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) -- Prosecutors in Ecuador on Monday announced an investigation into the alleged hunting and killing of four…
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Brazil records worst day for Amazon fires in 15 years
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) -- The number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon hit a nearly 15-year high…
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California says new cars must be zero emission by 2035
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) by Huw GRIFFITH California ruled Thursday that all new cars sold in America's most populous…
4 years ago
‘We are divided’: lake upends life for tiny Kenyan tribe
by Nick Perry Agence France-Presse EL MOLO BAY, Kenya (AFP) -- At first light, children from one of Kenya's smallest…
4 years ago
California set to ban fossil fuel cars by 2035
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) All new cars sold in California by 2035 will have to be zero emission under…
4 years ago
Sweltering Saudis escape to mountainous ‘City of Fog’
by Haitham EL-TABEI Agence France-Presse AL-NAMAS, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- As Saudi Arabia swelters in sizzling desert temperatures, some…
4 years ago
Drought tightens its grip on Morocco
by Kaouthar Oudrhiri Agence France-Presse OULED ESSI MASSEOUD, Morocco (AFP) -- Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that…
4 years ago
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