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Wounded whale washes ashore in northern France
A 7.6-metre (25-foot) whale, wounded but alive, was discovered stranded on a beach in northern France on Monday, authorities said,...
![World leaders gather for climate talks under cloud of crises](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/07/a1/e1/World-leaders-gather-for-climate-ta-669766_small.jpg)
World leaders gather for climate talks under cloud...
World leaders meeting Monday for climate talks in Egypt are under pressure to deepen cuts in emissions and financially back develo...
![COP27: Financing for climate damages gets a foot in the door](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/3d/21/1d/COP27--Financing-for-climate-damage-766106_small.jpg)
COP27: Financing for climate damages gets a foot i...
UN climate negotiations on Sunday offered a sliver of hope and "solidarity" for developing countries battered by increasingly cost...
![Hundreds arrested after Schiphol climate protest](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/cf/6a/f3/Hundreds-arrested-after-Schiphol-cl-671667_small.jpg)
Hundreds arrested after Schiphol climate protest
Dutch border police on Saturday arrested hundreds of climate activists who clambered over fences and gates at Amsterdam's Schiphol...
![Activists glue hands to Goya frames at Prado: Spanish police](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/57/55/8a/Activists-glue-hands-to-Goya-frames-567662_small.jpg)
Activists glue hands to Goya frames at Prado: Span...
Two climate activists on Saturday each glued a hand to the frames of two paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya at the Prado m...
![S.Africa to press rich nations for more money at COP27](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/cd/25/db/S-Africa-to-press-rich-nations-for--188516_small.jpg)
S.Africa to press rich nations for more money at C...
South Africa needs much more money to green its economy than what rich nations have promised so far, President Cyril Ramaphosa sai...
![Climate activists hurl pea soup on Van Gogh in Rome](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/2e/fd/db/Climate-activists-hurl-pea-soup-on--116484_small.jpg)
Climate activists hurl pea soup on Van Gogh in Rom...
A group of activists on Friday splashed pea soup onto a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece in Rome, in a protest they warned will contin...
![Kenya drought kills more than 200 elephants](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/f3/b4/24/Kenya-drought-kills-more-than-200-e-456645_small.jpg)
Kenya drought kills more than 200 elephants
More than 200 elephants and hundreds of zebras and gnus have died in Kenya's worst drought in four decades, the country's tourism...
![India's capital to shut schools as toxic smog chokes city](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/2c/3f/38/India-s-capital-to-shut-schools-as--746894_small.jpg)
India's capital to shut schools as toxic smog chok...
Primary schools in India's capital New Delhi will shut to protect children from the toxic smog choking the megacity of 20 million...
![Egypt's COP27 climate summit comes at a 'watershed moment'](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/d4/8b/d1/Egypt-s-COP27-climate-summit-comes--265665_small.jpg)
Egypt's COP27 climate summit comes at a 'watershed...
Leaders of a divided world meet in Egypt on Monday tasked with taming the terrifying juggernaut of global warming as they face gal...
![Arctic fires could release catastrophic amounts of C02: study](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/22/52/49/Arctic-fires-could-release-catastro-416136_small.jpg)
Arctic fires could release catastrophic amounts of...
Global warming is responsible for bigger and bigger fires in Siberia, and in the decades ahead they could release huge amounts of...
![No 'easy road' for Brazil's Lula, as world awaits Amazon action](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/cb/fd/5d/No--easy-road--for-Brazil-s-Lula--a-616661_small.jpg)
No 'easy road' for Brazil's Lula, as world awaits...
Brazil's president-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is facing a tough battle to halt the destruction of the Amazon, with the weight...
![UN calls on nations to 'urgently' boost climate funds](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/c8/f5/00/UN-calls-on-nations-to--urgently--b-711467_small.jpg)
UN calls on nations to 'urgently' boost climate fu...
Climate change impacts battering vulnerable countries threaten to outstrip efforts to adapt to global warming, the UN warned Thurs...
!['Hazardous' smog chokes India's capital](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/24/1e/1e/-Hazardous--smog-chokes-India-s-cap-526116_small.jpg)
'Hazardous' smog chokes India's capital
Smog in New Delhi hit "hazardous" levels on Thursday as smoke from thousands of crop fires in northern India combined with other p...
![UK's Sunak U-turns on attending COP27 in Egypt](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/48/7f/c1/UK-s-Sunak-U-turns-on-attending-COP-796678_small.jpg)
UK's Sunak U-turns on attending COP27 in Egypt
Britain's new prime minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday announced he will join the UN climate conference in Egypt after all, having...
![In Bolivia, Lake Poopo's 'water people' left high and dry](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/ef/39/c4/In-Bolivia--Lake-Poopo-s--water-peo-163606_small.jpg)
In Bolivia, Lake Poopo's 'water people' left high...
An abandoned boat rests on the cracked earth where formerly it floated. Lake Poopo, once Bolivia's second-largest, has mostly disa...
![Nile is in mortal danger, from its source to the sea](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/66/15/95/Nile-is-in-mortal-danger--from-its--261696_small.jpg)
Nile is in mortal danger, from its source to the s...
The pharaohs worshipped it as a god, the eternal bringer of life. But the clock is ticking on the Nile.
![S.Africa will need $500 bn to reach net zero: World Bank](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/11/33/62/S-Africa-will-need--500-bn-to-reach-377456_small.jpg)
S.Africa will need $500 bn to reach net zero: Worl...
South Africa, one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, will require at least half-a-trillion dollars to achieve carbon...
![Ardern in a flap as wren rocks N. Zealand's bird beauty contest](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/07/80/44/Ardern-in-a-flap-as-wren-rocks-N--Z-635815_small.jpg)
Ardern in a flap as wren rocks N. Zealand's bird b...
A tiny mountain-dwelling wren was the surprise winner Monday of New Zealand's controversial bird of the year competition, which ev...
![More than 6,000 baby turtles are released in Peru](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/1a/81/cd/More-than-6-000-baby-turtles-are-re-488640_small.jpg)
More than 6,000 baby turtles are released in Peru
More than 6,000 hatchlings of three species of endangered turtles have been released into lakes and lagoons in Peru's Amazon basin...
![Heat waves cost poor countries the most, exacerbating inequality](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/23/f8/b1/Heat-waves-cost-poor-countries-the--696694_small.jpg)
Heat waves cost poor countries the most, exacerbat...
Heat waves, intensified by climate change, have cost the global economy trillions of dollars in the last 30 years, a study publish...
![Global warming palpable for 96% of humans: study](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/cc/61/c2/Global-warming-palpable-for-96--of--696631_small.jpg)
Global warming palpable for 96% of humans: study
Whether they realised it or not, some 7.6 billion people -- 96 percent of humanity -- felt global warming's impact on temperatures...
![The Amazon: a burning question absent in Brazil vote](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/ea/85/90/The-Amazon--a-burning-question-abse-266244_small.jpg)
The Amazon: a burning question absent in Brazil vo...
Felipe Guimaraes leaps on and off a surfboard on the sand as he shows tourists the basics of surfing. Here, on Rio de Janeiro's Ip...
![Greeks turn to firewood to heat homes amid energy crisis](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/74/70/e4/Greeks-turn-to-firewood-to-heat-hom-649066_small.jpg)
Greeks turn to firewood to heat homes amid energy...
Residents of the Athens suburb of Glyfada who are struggling to heat their homes as energy prices soar now have an option -- free...
![New NASA tool helps detect 'super-emitters' of methane from space](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/83/2c/11/New-NASA-tool-helps-detect--super-e-357937_small.jpg)
New NASA tool helps detect 'super-emitters' of met...
NASA scientists, using a tool designed to study how dust affects climate, have identified more than 50 spots around the world emit...
![Partial solar eclipse begins in Iceland headed towards India](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/35/4c/3d/Partial-solar-eclipse-begins-in-Ice-951166_small.jpg)
Partial solar eclipse begins in Iceland headed tow...
A partial solar eclipse began over Iceland on Tuesday as the rare celestial spectacle started to make its way east across a swathe...
![Singapore targets net zero by 2050, eyes hydrogen power](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/f5/cd/d8/Singapore-targets-net-zero-by-2050--685883_small.jpg)
Singapore targets net zero by 2050, eyes hydrogen...
Singapore announced Tuesday it aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, giving a firm date for the first time, and will look at...
![Post-Diwali Delhi wakes to toxic firecracker smog](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/77/93/62/Post-Diwali-Delhi-wakes-to-toxic-fi-876811_small.jpg)
Post-Diwali Delhi wakes to toxic firecracker smog
New Delhi woke to toxic smog on Tuesday after Diwali revellers defied a firecracker ban and risked jail to celebrate the annual Hi...
!['We don't eat lithium': S. America longs for benefits of metal boon](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/7f/b6/b1/-We-don-t-eat-lithium---S--America--686616_small.jpg)
'We don't eat lithium': S. America longs for benef...
The turquoise glimmer of open-air pools contrasts sharply with the dazzling white of salt flats in Latin America's "lithium triang...
![Nine dead, million seek shelter as cyclone hits Bangladesh](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/48/3c/d5/Nine-dead--million-seek-shelter-as--677364_small.jpg)
Nine dead, million seek shelter as cyclone hits Ba...
At least nine people have died after a cyclone slammed into Bangladesh, forcing the evacuation of around a million people from the...
![Food shock: Crop-battering disasters highlight climate threat](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/8f/b4/0b/Food-shock--Crop-battering-disaster-560616_small.jpg)
Food shock: Crop-battering disasters highlight cli...
Rolling crises linked to war, weather disasters and the pandemic have shaken global food systems and tipped millions into hunger a...
![Will climate change doom US truck habit? Detroit says no](https://www.muenchenerpost.de/media/shared/articles/81/15/1f/Will-climate-change-doom-US-truck-h-914616_small.jpg)
Will climate change doom US truck habit? Detroit s...
The US consumer's love for enormous vehicles has been seen by outsiders as a curiosity and sometimes a sign of profligacy.