Each winter, Delhi is blanketed in acrid smog, a toxic mix of crop-burning, factory emissions, and choking traffic (ARUN SANKAR) By AFP - Agence France Presse India's Pollution Refugees Fleeing Delhi's Toxic Air By Aishwarya KUMAR Pollution levels in India's capital shaped Natasha Uppal and her husband's decision on parenthood -- either raise their child away from the city, or stay put and remain childless. New Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan area, home to more than 30

Republicans are moving to block what they describe as 'lawfare against the energy industry' (PATRICK T. FALLON) By AFP - Agence France Presse US Republicans Seek To Shield Oil Giants As Climate Lawsuits Advance By Issam AHMED President Donald Trump's second term has seen the United States go all-in to boost Big Oil and block renewables -- yet a wave of state and local climate-damage lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry continues to advance. Now Republicans are moving to

Globally, deforestation is driven overwhelmingly by the expansion of agriculture. (EVARISTO SA). (EVARISTO SA/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse Global Goal To End Deforestation Nowhere Near Being Met: Experts. Deforestation "has not meaningfully declined" despite a global pledge to halt forest destruction, but next month's UN climate summit in the Amazon could mark a turning point, experts said Tuesday. Last year, an area of the world's forests larger than Scotland was c

Protesters held a mock funeral for climate negotiations during COP26 in Glasgow, 2021. PHOTO: PAUL ELLIS. By AFP - Agence France Presse Not Nothing, Not Enough: Is The Paris Agreement Working? By Kelly MACNAMARA Climate cooperation is facing a reckoning. Ten years after the landmark Paris Agreement, major polluters are wavering on action while the world fast approaches the deal's safer warming limit. With climate change already causing dangerous extremes across the planet, a

Residents of the city of Gabes along the country's central coast gather for a protest to demand the closure of chemical factories [File: Mourad Mjaied/AFP] By AFP - Agence France Presse Dozens More Hospitalised In Tunisia As Locals Blame Chemical Factory Tunisia reported on Tuesday dozens more people admitted to hospital in Gabes, whose residents have blamed pollution from a nearby chemical factory for causing respiratory distress and other health issues. Some were carrying c

Cattle moving along a farm track on Dill farm in the Kaipara Hills in Auckland, New Zealand. Photograph: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images By AFP - Agence France Presse New Zealand Accused Of 'Climate Denial' Over New Methane Targets Environmental campaigners have accused New Zealand's government of "full-blown climate denial" after it slashed targets for reducing emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming. New Zealand's right-leaning coalition

Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva has come to symbolize the tensions within Brazil's government over the uneasy coexistence between developmental pragmatism and protecting the environment (Evaristo Sa)(Evaristo Sa/AFP/AFP) By AFP -Agence France Presse Four Brazilians To Watch At COP30 By Facundo Fernández Barrio Influential Brazilians, from government figures to Indigenous activists, will take center stage during UN climate talks in the Amazon next month. Here are so

Turkish journalist and environmental activist Hakan Tosun By AFP - Agence France Presse Turkish Environmental Journalist Dies After Attack Tributes poured in on Tuesday for a Turkish journalist known for his environmental coverage who died after being attacked, with media organisations, NGOs, and politicians demanding an investigation into his death. Hakan Tosun, 50, was found unconscious after being attacked as he walked through the streets of Istanbul's Esenyurt district in

This activity aims to demand climate justice for Africa in general, and for the DRC in particular. Illustrative Photo By AFP - Agence France Presse 'Widespread Illegalities' In DR Congo Carbon Offsetting: NGO Carbon offsetting projects in the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are plagued by "widespread illegalities" and "exacerbate the risk" of rights violations, an NGO report published Tuesday said. With vast forests and peatlands that absorb significant quan

Washington has threatened to sanction countries supporting a UN plan to cut maritime emissions (Jim WATSON)(Jim WATSON/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse US Threats Cast Doubt On Shipping Emissions Deal By Pol-Malo LE BRIS An ambitious plan by the UN's shipping agency to cut maritime emissions could be scuttled at the last minute after the United States threatened to impose sanctions on those supporting it. Already approved in April, members of the London-based Internatio

Belem in northern Brazil is known as the gateway to the Amazon rainforest (CARLOS FABAL) By AFP - Agence France Presse Trees, Targets And Trillions: What's On The Agenda At COP30? This year's United Nations climate summit promises to be symbolic, marking a decade since the Paris Agreement and taking place in the environmentally vulnerable Amazon. But what is actually on the agenda? The marathon negotiations gather nearly every country to confront a challenge that affects them

Scientists camped out high on a glacier in Tajikistan to take the ice core samples (Prakash MATHEMA). (Prakash MATHEMA/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse Scientists Probe Tajik Glacier For Clues To Climate Resistance By Prakash MATHEMA Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting, and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last? To find out, a dozen scientists, accompan

Coral reefs are highly sensitive to changing conditions in the oceans, and global warming poses the greatest threat to these vibrant ecosystems. (GLENN NICHOLLS) By AFP - Agence France Presse World's Coral Reefs Crossing Survival Limit: Global Experts By Nick Perry The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday. It is the first time scientists hav

Azedy’s drive for “uniqueness” in repurposed pieces earned him a place at Berlin Fashion Week last year. PHOTO: TONY KARUMBA By AFP - Agence France Presse From Waste To Runway: Kenyan Designers Transform Used Clothes Into Art By Mary KULUNDU In a dusty alley in the heart of Kenya's largest open-air market, fashion models strut down a makeshift runway in bold, upcycled outfits made from waste collected at dumpsites and market cast-offs -- proof that even trash can dazzle. Ever

'H is for Hawk' chronicles a bereaved Cambridge University historian, played by Claire Foy, taming and befriending the Northern goshawk (JUSTIN TALLIS). (JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse Stay Still And Don't Wear Yellow: UK Filmmakers On Working With Hawks By Joe JACKSON How do you share a film set with a notoriously fierce bird of prey? For starters: stay still, be quiet, and do not wear yellow, according to the makers of a British film about an academic

Brazil is expecting 50,000 people to attend the UN COP30 climate summit in Belem (Thiago Gomes). Thiago Gomes/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse Brazil Hopes COP30 In the Amazon Can Unite the World For Climate Action By Anna Pelegri with Nick Perry in Paris Brazil is betting its much-hyped climate summit in the Amazon next month can deliver something increasingly rare in a fractured world: proof that nations can still unite to confront a global crisis. It faces tough odds

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