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Paris (AFP) Sept 12, 2025 - Climate action is a moral responsibility for wealthy polluting nations, Tuvalu's climate minister told AFP Friday, as the low-lying island nation pursues UN recognition for its heritage threatened by rising seas.
Jun 26, 2026
Salima, Malawi (AFP) Sept 9, 2024 - In the worst drought in southern Africa in a century, villagers in Malawi are digging for potentially poisonous wild yams to eat as their crops lie scorched in the fields.
Jun 26, 2026
Washington - Jan. 10, 2001 - Geological evidence suggests that Earth may have had surface water -- and thus conditions to support life -- billions of years earlier than previously thought. Scientists reconstructed the portrait of early Earth by reading the telltale chemical composition of the oldest known terrestrial rock.
Jun 26, 2026
Purnia, India (AFP) Sept 6, 2008 - Some villagers began trying to return to their flooded homes in eastern India on Saturday as waters slowly receded, but officials warned the move was risky with a month of heavy rains still expected.
Jun 26, 2026
Yesud Hama'Ala, Israel (AFP) Sept 20, 2022 - An Israeli family farm has spent decades developing hybrid fruits, from black apricots to watermelon plums, which it says offer unique flavours and added resilience against a changing climate.
Jun 26, 2026
London (AFP) Sept 9, 2020 - Record temperatures are accelerating the rise of sea levels, melting glaciers and snow coverage and threatening the water supplies for billions, according to a major UN report Wednesday charting the increasing and irreversible impacts of climate change.
Jun 26, 2026
Harare (AFP) Sept 18, 2023 - Large numbers of elephants from Zimbabwe's biggest national park are moving to neighbouring Botswana in a search for water, a spokesman said Monday.
Jun 26, 2026
Tashkent (AFP) Sept 15, 2023 - Serious water shortages plaguing Central Asian countries have become irreversible and will only get worse, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev warned Friday, as global warming and increased competition weigh on resources.
Jun 26, 2026
Quimsacocha, Ecuador (AFP) Sept 14, 2019 - The indigenous people of Ecuador's wind-whipped alpine tundra of Quimsacocha face a stark choice, according to their leader, Yaku Perez.
Jun 26, 2026
Comerio , Puerto Rico (AFP) Sept 29, 2017 - The white pipes carved into the foot of the rain-soaked mountain stick out like needles, and from them flows water.
Jun 26, 2026
Flint, United States (AFP) Sept 21, 2024 - Lead contamination of the drinking water in the US Rust Belt city of Flint, Michigan began 10 years ago.
Jun 26, 2026
Jubail, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Sept 17, 2023 - Solar panels soak up blinding noontime rays that help power a water desalination facility in eastern Saudi Arabia, a step towards making the notoriously emissions-heavy process less environmentally taxing.
Jun 26, 2026
Beijing (AFP) Sept 15, 2006 - China's top environmental watchdog has called for severe punishment of officials responsible for two recent high-profile pollution cases, state media said Friday. Dereliction of duty was to blame for both a lead pollution scandal in northwest China's Gansu province and an arsenic poisoning case in central Hunan province, said the State Environmental Protection Administration.
Jun 26, 2026
Guadalajara, Mexico (AFP) Sept 03, 2014 - The death of 3.2 million fish at a lagoon in western Mexico this past week was caused by poorly functioning wastewater treatment plants that failed to filter out untreated material, authorities said.
Jun 26, 2026
Hanga Roa, Chile (AFP) Sept 10, 2016 - Every Friday, a cargo plane loaded with three tonnes of waste cardboard takes off from wind-swept Easter Island, bound for the Chilean mainland thousands of miles away across the Pacific.
Jun 26, 2026
Washington (AFP) Sept 05, 2013 - The giant panda cub born 13 days ago at the National Zoo in Washington is female and she has a live-in dad, the zoo said Thursday.
Jun 26, 2026
