Brazil's Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, hopes Indigenous peoples will have a leading voice at COP30, which will take place in the Brazilian Amazon. © Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP. By AFP - Agence France Presse COP30: Indigenous Peoples Vital To Humanity's Future, Brazilian Minister Tells AFP By Louis GENOT At COP30 in Belem, in Brazil's Amazon region, the country's Minister of Indigenous Peoples, Sonia Guajajara, hopes Indigenous peoples will play a leading role

Typhoon Kalmaegi has killed more than 200 people in the Philippines (Jam STA ROSA) By AFP - Agence France Presse Super Typhoon Fung-wong Makes Landfall In the Philippines By Pam Castro Super Typhoon Fung-wong slammed into the Philippines' eastern seaboard on Sunday, the national weather service said, after killing at least two people and forcing more than a million to evacuate. The storm, with a radius spanning nearly the whole of the Philippines, made landfall in Aurora prov

Millions of plastic pellets washed up on the beach at Camber Sands in East Sussex, southern England (Ben STANSALL. (Ben STANSALL/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse UK water firm says 'highly likely' behind plastic pellet pollution incident. One of the UK's under-fire water companies apologised on Monday after plastic pellets washed up en masse on beaches in southern England, conceding it was "highly likely" behind the recent pollution. Southern Water, which provides wate

After blazing a trail in the climate fight, the EU political landscape has shifted right, and climate concerns have taken a back seat to defence and competitiveness (Nicolas TUCAT). (Nicolas TUCAT/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse Will the EU's Carbon Border Tax Crash the COP30 Party? By Adrien DE CALAN A flagship European environmental policy -- dubbed a "carbon tax" on imports -- is raising hackles abroad and is becoming a flashpoint at the UN's COP30 climate summit in

New Delhi is regularly ranked among the world's most polluted capitals (Sajjad HUSSAIN). (Sajjad HUSSAIN/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse I Miss Breathing': Delhi Protesters Demand Action On Pollution By Arunabh SAIKIA Dozens of protesters rallied in New Delhi on Sunday to demand government action on toxic air, as a thick haze containing dangerous microparticles shrouded the Indian capital. Parents in the crowd brought their children, who wore masks and waved placards,

Chinese ship scouts deep-ocean floor in South Pacific / Photo: © AFP By AFP - Agence France Presse Chinese Ship Scouts Deep-ocean Floor In the South Pacific. A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands on Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a fledgling industry of mounting interest to both Beijing and Washington. The Da Yang Hao docked in the palm-shaded port of Avatiu on a "scientific research cruise" through the tropical archipelag

A Navy soldier patrols the Port of Outeiro, where cruise ships are docked to host delegations attending the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil (Pablo PORCIUNCULA). (Pablo PORCIUNCULA/AFP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse All aboard! Cruise ships ease Belem's hotel dearth Mariëtte Le Roux Two cruise ships tower imposingly over a sleepy port in the Brazilian Amazon, where some 50,000 people are gathering for a UN climate conference. AFP visited the river port

Photo Unsplash/Rocker Sta EU Airlines Agree To Drop Misleading Climate Claims By AFP - Agence France Presse European airlines, including Lufthansa, Air France, and KLM, have agreed to stop making misleading environmental claims about offsetting the carbon emissions from air travel, the European Commission said Friday. The pledge from 21 carriers will oblige them to clarify that the emissions of a specific flight cannot be "neutralised, offset, or directly reduced" by contribu

The World Health Organization considers mercury one of the top 10 chemicals of major public health concern, calling it "toxic to human health" (KEVORK DJANSEZIAN). (KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse Countries agree to end mercury tooth fillings by 2034 Robin MILLARD Countries agreed Friday to phase out the use of mercury-based dental amalgams in tooth fillings by 2034, in a move that will change dentistry around t

Earth cannot 'sustain' intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30 / Photo: © AFP By AFP - Agence France Presse EARTH CANNOT 'SUSTAIN' INTENSIVE FOSSIL FUEL USE, LULA TELLS COP30 Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday said Earth can no longer sustain humanity's dependence on fossil fuels, and without confronting this reality, the climate fight will be lost. The leftist leader spoke at a pre-COP30 summit in the Brazilian Amazon, where other heads of state and g

People walk under a misting system on a hot day in Tokyo earlier this year, which is on track to become one of the hottest in recorded history, according to the UN (Yuichi YAMAZAKI) By AFP - Agence France Presse UN Says 2025 To Be Among Top Three Warmest Years On Record By Alexandre GROSBOIS An alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has put 2025 on course to be among the hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting, though, that the trend coul

Acai is the emblematic fruit of the city of Belem (Pablo PORCIUNCULA) By AFP - Agence France Presse Five things to know about 'forest COP' host city Belem Louis GENOT The eyes of the world are on Belem, a gateway city to the Brazilian Amazon, playing host to what has been dubbed the "Forest COP" climate conference starting Monday. The city of 1.4 million got its name from Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. In Portuguese, it translates as Belem. Under a law promulgated

France's President Emmanuel Macron and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wave after a bilateral meeting within the framework of the COP30 UN climate conference in Belem, Para State, Brazil, on November 6, 2025. By AFP - Agence France Presse Leaders turn up the heat on fossil fuels at Amazon climate summit by Anna Pelegri, with Ivan Couronne in Washington. World leaders will meet for a second day of climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon on Friday after fiery speeche

Non-fossil fuels hit half of India's installed energy capacity, but that has not translated into generation (Money SHARMA) By AFP - Agence France Presse Green goals versus growth needs: India's climate scorecard Sara Hussein India is the world's most populous country, the third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, and remains deeply dependent on polluting coal to meet soaring energy demand. It is also a climate diplomacy heavyweight, representing developing economies. Ahead o

English: An image of Masoud Pezeshkian, the ninth president of Iran, in an interview with Khamenei in 2024. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Attribution: Khamenei.ir By AFP - Agence France Presse Iran's President Warns Tehran May Face Evacuation Due To Drought Nov 07, 2025 12:19 pm EST Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian warned in a speech broadcast on Friday that the capital Tehran may need to be evacuated because of wat

Photo © UNFCCC/Kiara Worth UN Secretary-General António Guterres (right) joins a discussion on energy transition in Belém, Brazil. In Brazil, Guterres calls for ‘fair, fast and final’ shift to clean energy. Fonte ONU NEWS Publicado no ONU NEWS sob CC Licence 7 November 2025 Climate and Environment UN Secretary-General António Guterres is continuing his campaign to accelerate the global switch from fossil fuels to clean energy – “the cheapest source of new electricity in ne

Brazilian president and host Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva referred to "extremist forces fabricate fake news to obtain electoral gains and imprison future generations in a model that should be overcome" . Pablo PORCIUNCULA(Agência Brasil) By AFP - Agence France Presse 'Moral Failure': Leaders Seek To Rally World At Amazon Climate Talks By Louis Genot, Mariëtte Le Roux, Facundo Fernández Barrio, with Kelly Macnamara in Paris. Fears of a fracturing global resolve loomed over climat

The Dutch have dealt with flooding for centuries (Remko de Waal). (Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP) By AFP - Agence France Presse Operation Cloudburst: Dutch train for 'water bomb' floods Richard CARTER A twin-prop Chinook helicopter shatters the calm of the Dutch countryside, hovering just metres from a canal before dumping four huge sandbags into the water: welcome to Operation Cloudburst. The five-day exercise simulates catastrophic floods from a "water bomb", an ever-present fear i

City of Belém do Pará in Brazil; Source: Canva COP30 - Between symbolism and operational challenge - what is at stake? By Claudia Andrade COP30 will be held in Belém, in the heart of the Amazon, and never has a climate conference carried so much symbolism — and so much responsibility. It is impossible not to feel the weight of this choice. The world is watching us. Brazil. The forest. What we will do — or fail to do — when the stage is ours. There is something beautiful and,

Residents carrying their belongings and pet dogs wade through a flooded street as they evacuate from their inundated homes in Liloan town, Cebu province. Photo by AFP By AFP - Agence France Presse Philippine death toll tops 140 as Typhoon Kalmaegi heads towards Vietnam Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 140 people and left another 127 missing after unleashing devastating flooding across the central Philippines, official figures showed Thursday, as the storm headed towards Vietn