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Activists warn against EU ‘tearing up’ green policies
Paris, France (AFP) - Over 100 civil society groups on Monday expressed alarm at attacks on green policies in Europe as key elections loom, and…
SourceMay 13, 2024
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US, Japanese banks lead fossil fuel financing
By AFP Paris, France (UPDATED) - The world's biggest banks financed fossil fuels to the tune of $705 billion in 2023, with US and Japanese…
SourceMay 13, 2024
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Chinese firms exit Romania solar tender after EU probe
By AFP Brussels, Belgium - Two Chinese-owned solar panel manufacturers have withdrawn from a public procurement tender in Romania after the EU launched an anti-subsidy…
SourceMay 13, 2024
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Parks and restoration: Climate change forces US policy shift
By Lucie AUBOURG | AFP Washington, United States - Can America's national parks remain "unimpaired" forever, with their majestic scenery and wildlife unaltered? Global warming…
SourceMay 13, 2024
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Rivers rise again as rain batters flood-hit south Brazil
By Florian PLAUCHEUR Porto Alegre, Brazil - River levels were rising again Sunday as strong rains lashed waterlogged southern Brazil, where flooding has killed more…
SourceMay 12, 2024
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Cycling: The untapped potential for improving our health (and the climate)
Kévin Jean, Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM); Audrey de Nazelle, Imperial College London; Marion Leroutier, Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Philippe Quirion, Centre…
SourceMay 12, 2024
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Brazil authorities warn of more floods, landslides as new rains hit south
By Mauricio RABUFFETTI Porto Alegre, Brazil - New rains in waterlogged southern Brazil are expected to be heaviest between Sunday and Monday, authorities have warned,…
SourceMay 12, 2024
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Brazil’s catastrophic weather spawns spate of conspiracy theories
By Maria-Eduarda JOIA | AFP Rio De Janeiro, Brazil - The climate catastrophe that has struck southern Brazil, killing more than a hundred people and…
SourceMay 11, 2024
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US, China pledge joint methane action at climate talks
By AFP Washington, United States - The United States and China promised Friday to work together on reduction of methane, the second most abundant greenhouse…
SourceMay 11, 2024
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Hotter, drier, sicker? How a changing planet drives disease
By Sara HUSSEIN | AFP Bangkok, Thailand - Humans have made our planet warmer, more polluted and ever less hospitable to many species, and these…
SourceMay 10, 2024
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Iceland’s ‘Mammoth’ raises potential for carbon capture
By Mathilde DUMAZET | AFP Hellisheidi, Iceland - With Mammoth's 72 industrial fans, Swiss start-up Climeworks intends to suck 36,000 tonnes of CO2 from the…
SourceMay 10, 2024
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La Niña is coming, raising the chances of a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season – an atmospheric scientist explains this climate phenomenon
Pedro DiNezio, University of Colorado Boulder One of the big contributors to the record-breaking global temperatures over the past year – El Niño – is…
SourceMay 10, 2024
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