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Peru declares environmental emergency after oil spill
LIMA - Peru's government on Thursday declared an environmental emergency in a northern coastal area, where state oil firm Petroperu last...
Dec 28, 20241 min read
Brazil heron takes flight after plastic cup removed from throat
RIO DE JANEIRO- A heron took flight in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, stretching its wings and soaring over a river after veterinarians saved...
Dec 17, 20242 min read
Indian capital tightens anti-pollution measures as air quality worsens
India directed schools to move to hybrid mode for some grades, asked government offices to stagger timings for staff and imposed...
Dec 17, 20241 min read
Rescuers comb debris for survivors, count dead in cyclone-hit Mayotte
PARIS/MORONI - Emergency workers searched for survivors on Monday and battled to restore services in Mayotte, France's poorest overseas...
Dec 17, 20244 min read
2024 in photos: the world under water
A drone view shows flooded houses in Venek, Hungary, September 17, 2024. Fedja Grulovic In 2024, it often felt like it was flooding...
Dec 17, 20242 min read
2024 will be the hottest year on record, EU scientists say
BRUSSELS - This year will be the world's warmest since records began, with extraordinarily high temperatures expected to persist into at...
Dec 9, 20242 min read
Facts-Which countries have completed debt swaps for nature and climate
LONDON - Debt swaps are becoming a more widely used tool to help indebted countries raise money for conservation or climate-related...
Dec 3, 20243 min read
Exclusive-UN calls for $2.6 trillion investment to reverse land degradation
RIYADH - Restoring the world's degraded land and holding back its deserts will require at least $2.6 trillion in investment by the end of...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
Divisions on curbing plastic waste persist as UN treaty talks begin
BUSAN/BAKU - As delegates from 175 countries gathered in Busan, South Korea on Monday for the fifth round of talks aimed at securing an...
Nov 27, 20243 min read
Analysis-Contentious COP29 deal shows climate cooperation fraying at edges
BAKU - When COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev stepped to the podium at the closing meeting of the Baku climate summit on Sunday morning,...
Nov 25, 20244 min read
Explainer-COP29 - How does $300 billion stack up?
BAKU - Countries agreed at the U.N.'s COP29 climate conference to spend $300 billion on annual climate finance. Here are some ways of...
Nov 24, 20242 min read
Factbox-Takeaways from the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan
BAKU, Azerbaijan - This year's U.N. climate summit delivered a deal on climate finance two days past deadline, after two weeks of tense...
Nov 24, 20243 min read
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