Tottenham Spurs aiming to stage world’s first ‘net-zero carbon’ match
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Tottenham are aiming to host the "world's first net-zero carbon" football match at an elite…
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Environment
Funding needed to tackle life-shortening air pollution: report
by Natalie HANDEL PARIS, France (AFP) -- Even as air pollution shaves years off life expectancy, fossil fuel projects get…
5 years ago
Crews work to contain oil spill in Gulf after Ida’s passage
WASHINGTON D.C., United States (AFP) - Workers have deployed containment booms and skimmer devices as they attempt to contain a…
5 years ago
Conservation meet mulls plan to protect 80% of Amazon
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse MARSEILLE, France (AFP) - Should 80 percent of the Amazon be declared a protected area…
5 years ago
Climate action cannot wait for pandemic to end, medical journals warn
PARIS, France (AFP) -- Global warming is already affecting people's health so much that emergency action on climate change cannot…
5 years ago
Floating Dutch cow farm aims to curb climate impact
by Charlotte VAN OUWERKERK Agence France-Presse ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AFP) — Among the cranes and containers of the port of Rotterdam…
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Swiss glaciologist bears witness to relentless Alpine glacier melt
by Eloi ROUYER Agence France-Presse SWITZERLAND (AFP) — After hiking for hours across the mountain and a vast expanse of…
5 years ago
Colombian photographer documents world’s largest variety of butterflies
by Hector Velasco JARDIN, Colombia (AFP) -- Like the more than 3,000 species of butterflies in Colombia, agronomist Juan Guillermo…
5 years ago
Drought diplomacy helps boost Israel-Jordan ties
by Ben Simon JERUSALEM, Undefined (AFP) -- As scientific warnings of dire climate change-induced drought grow, many in Israel and…
5 years ago
Plastic threatens migratory species in Asia-Pacific: UN
by Kelly MACNAMARA PARIS, France (AFP) -- From endangered freshwater dolphins drowned by discarded fishing nets to elephants scavenging through…
5 years ago
Researchers discover world’s ‘northernmost’ island
Scientists have discovered what is believed to be the world's northernmost landmass -- a yet-to-be-named island north of Greenland that…
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Experts estimate endangered Galapagos pink iguana population at 211
QUITO, Ecuador (AFP) -- Scientific experts sent to the Galapagos Islands to count a critically endangered lizard species estimate there…
5 years ago
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