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by Joëlle Garrus Agence France-Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — The Old City of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and a rare collection of futuristic buildings in Eritrea are among sites hoping to gain protected status from UNESCO when it meets in Poland from Sunday. The meeting of the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations’ scientific and cultural body in Krakow will also examine concerns about high-rise buildings that threaten the historic center of […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — If the United States fails to take decisive measures to combat climate change, it will become a poorer country facing more dramatic inequality, according to a study published Thursday. The poorest third of US counties could see income drops as great as 20 percent if current trends continue, according to the worst-case projection of the study, published in the journal Science. An interdisciplinary team of climatologists and economists based its […]
ROXAS, Palawan (Eagle News) – Nagsagawa ng mangrove tree-planting ang kapulisan sa Roxas, Palawan kamakailan. Ito ay may temang “Tuluy-tuloy na pangangalaga ng bakawan at karagatan tungo sa sustenableng kabuhayan at kalusugan.” Nasa mahigit 3,000 punla ng bakaw ang naitanim sa aktibidad, na pinangunahan ing hepe ng Roxas Municipal Poice Station na si PCI Aldrico Nangit, kasama ang iba pang ahensya ng gobyerno. Naging matagumpay at mapayapa ang kabuuan ng isinagawang programa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1tfcMZAsLk&feature=youtu.be Anne Ramos – […]
GOODWIN, ARIZONA, United States (Reuters) — A wildfire burning in Arizona’s Prescott National Forest has burned more than four thousand acres, forcing families to evacuate their homes. The Goodwin Fire is only five percent contained as of Tuesday afternoon (June 27). Forest officials say the fire is burning through heavy brush and timber in rugged terrain and windy conditions are spreading the flames. The Yavapai County Sheriff’s office is working with fire officials to evacuate […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Subsidizing the purchase of electric cars in Canada is an inefficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that is not cost effective, according to a Montreal Economic Institute study released Thursday. “It’s just a waste,” said Germain Belzile, one of the authors of the study, which examined electric vehicle subsidies offered by Canada’s two biggest provinces Ontario and Quebec, which can rise to as much as a third of a vehicle’s […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) — Paris glistened in the heat as temperatures reached 35 degrees Celsius on Tuesday (June 20), but the peak in weather did not stop tourists from enjoying the city and visiting the Eiffel Tower under a roasting sun, albeit with a quick dip in the fountain at its feet. The heat over the past month has beaten various records for this period of the year in France, according to French weather sites […]
ELIAT, Israel (AFP) — In the azure waters of the Red Sea, Maoz Fine and his team dive to study what may be the planet’s most unique coral: one that can survive global warming, at least for now. The corals, striking in their red, orange and green colors, grow on tables some eight meters (26 feet) underwater, put there by the Israeli scientists to unlock their secrets to survival. They are of the same species […]
GUATEMALA City, Guatemala (AFP) — A mudslide in an indigenous village in Guatemala killed 11 people and injured at least nine more on Tuesday, the emergency services said. Heavy rains caused the mudslide that swept away five houses in the western village of San Pedro Soloma, said the head of the National Disaster Reduction Coordinator, Sergio Cabanas. Television footage from the scene showed people searching through the wreckage of the village, in a mountainous area […]
Volunteers and police in Cyprus are struggling to tackle illegal songbird trapping operations that kill millions of birds a year and net huge profits for poaching gangs. (AFP Video) https://youtu.be/y1VEvRgFPIU
by Thomas Cabral with Brigitte Hagemann in Lisbon Agence France-Presse PEDRÓGÃO GRANDE, Portugal (AFP) — Raging forest fires in central Portugal have killed at least 61 people, many burnt to death in their cars, the government said Sunday, in the country’s worst such disaster in recent history. Authorities declared three days of national mourning as more than 800 firefighters and 260 vehicles battled the blaze, which also left 62 people injured, amid scenes of devastation. The […]
by Anne Chaon A rare Afghan marsh that was once a royal hunting ground is set to come under the official protection of the United Nations environment agency, with the aim of saving hundreds of migratory bird species. On the long, arid journey to the Caucasus and Siberia, across the Hindu Kush massif, the Kol-e-Hashmat Khan wetlands outside Kabul provide sanctuary for the thousands of storks, egrets, pelicans and flamingos that head north every spring from southern […]
(Eagle News) — Mahigpit na ipinatutupad ng Valenzuela City ang bagong ordinansa na nagbabawal sa paggamit ng mga motorsiklo na sobrang ingay, sira o walang tambutso. Sa report ng Eagle News Correspondent na si Joey Tagum, bunsod ito ng kabi-kabilang mga reklamong natatanggap ng mga taga Valenzuela lalo na sa gabi o sa oras ng kanilang pamamahinga. Sa pamamagitan ng noise level test, nalalaman agad nila kung dapat ba o hindi na mapalitan ang tambutso ng mga […]
