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Powerful Hurricane Beryl slams into Caribbean isla...
Hurricane Beryl slammed into the Caribbean island of Carriacou on Monday, producing "life-threatening conditions" including disast...
Hope for Mekong dolphins as Cambodia numbers incre...
The number of Mekong dolphins has risen to more than 100 in Cambodia, the agriculture minister said Monday, raising a glimmer of h...
Caribbean braces for powerful Hurricane Beryl
Hurricane Beryl plowed toward the southeast Caribbean late Sunday as officials warned residents to seek shelter ahead of powerful...
Caribbean braces as Beryl strengthens to 'extremel...
Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, strengthened into an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm Sunday as it t...
Caribbean braces as Hurricane Beryl strengthens to...
Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, strengthened into a "very dangerous" Category 3 storm Sunday morning as it...
Caribbean braces for 'extremely dangerous' Hurrica...
Much of the southeast Caribbean was on alert Sunday as Beryl strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, wi...
Hurricane Beryl, first of 2024 season, bears down...
Much of the southeast Caribbean was on alert late Saturday as Beryl strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic sea...
Caribbean on alert for Hurricane Beryl, first of 2...
Much of the southeast Caribbean was on alert Saturday as Beryl strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season,...
Caribbean on alert as Beryl set to become major hu...
Much of the southeast Caribbean went on alert Saturday as forecasters projected Tropical Storm Beryl would rapidly strengthen over...
Nigerians strive to bring mangrove forests back to...
On a riverbank in the Niger Delta, a group of residents in rubber boots has been working to restore one of Nigeria's most precious...
E.coli warning before UK's Henley regatta
UK water quality campaigners warned on Friday of "very high E.coli" levels in the River Thames west of London, just days before ro...
'Not crazy to be optimistic' on climate tech, Gate...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday urged investors to get behind cutting-edge climate technologies he says would drive a...
Woman firefighter on Brazil frontline after 2020 f...
Debora dos Santos Avila used to resent firefighters for the death of her five-month-old baby in 2020, when she says he succumbed t...
'Stress test': Olive oil producers adapt to climat...
Olive oil producers are improving irrigation and seeking new varieties of olives to safeguard production as climate change upends...
Climate lawsuits against companies on the rise: re...
Companies worldwide have faced mounting legal pressure to reduce their impact on global warming as activists use litigation to fig...
In Aberdeen, climate and energy take centre stage...
In Europe's oil and gas "capital", Aberdeen, voters are apprehensive about Labour's plans for combatting climate change if the opp...
Climate protesters target UK's ruling Tories for s...
Demonstrators targeted the general election campaign of the UK's ruling Conservatives again Wednesday, with a Greenpeace activist...
NGO denounces rising air freight pollution
An environmental pressure group denounced Wednesday the rising emissions of the air freight industry, which has been boosted by gl...
First radioactive rhino horns to curb poaching in...
South African scientists on Tuesday injected radioactive material into live rhino horns to make them easier to detect at border po...
VW to invest $5 bn in EV maker Rivian, establishin...
German auto giant Volkswagen will invest $5 billion in US electric vehicle maker Rivian and create a joint venture expected to pro...
Serbia prepared to make compromises with Kosovo: P...
Serbia's new government is prepared to make "compromises" over Kosovo, Prime Minister Milos Vucevic told AFP during a wide-ranging...
'Urgent' for Australia to protect Great Barrier Re...
Australia must take "urgent" action to protect the Great Barrier Reef, including setting more ambitious climate targets, the UN's...
Sunbed wars: Greece tries to rein in beach chaos
The waves of the Aegean Sea lap gently at the tables and chairs of two beach restaurants on Greece's Halkidiki peninsula.
Italy's Capri lifts tourist ban as water shortage...
The Italian island of Capri lifted a ban on tourists Saturday after problems with the water supply to the holiday hotspot were res...
Hawaii agrees to 'historic' settlement in youth cl...
The US state of Hawaii has reached an historic agreement in response to litigation by youth activists, promising to speed up the d...
Hajj death toll tops 1,000 after extreme heat: AFP...
The death toll from this year's hajj has exceeded 1,000, an AFP tally said Thursday, more than half unregistered worshippers who p...
UK inflation slows to central bank's 2% target
British inflation slowed in May to the central bank's two-percent target, official data showed Wednesday, boosting Prime Minister...
Power demand peaks in northern India heatwave
Searing heatwave temperatures in northern India pushed power demand to a record high, the government said Tuesday, with residents...
Pressure on cholera vaccine stocks 'decreasing': G...
A resurgence of cholera across Africa has driven an urgent need for more vaccine doses, but stock shortages have hampered the figh...
Lula calls for 'agility' in combatting Amazon defo...
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for flexibility and speed in combatting criminal organizations that are defor...
California blaze raises fears for dangerous wildfi...
California firefighters on Monday tackled the state's biggest blaze of the year so far, as fears intensify over ominous conditions...
Austria's support gets EU biodiversity law over th...
EU member countries on Monday gave final approval to a key biodiversity measure, a bloc-wide nature restoration law, after Austria...