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Montreal (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Two years after a historically devastating summer, Canada is once again facing a massive fire season, with burned areas already exceeding year-to-date averages from recent years.
Jun 11, 2025
Copenhagen (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday.
Jun 11, 2025
Nice, France (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Tired of pleading for countries to act on climate change, Vanuatu upped the ante - it asked the world's highest court if governments were legally obligated to do something about it.
Jun 11, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 11, 2025 - Iran on Wednesday hanged a man convicted of killing seven people, including a 10-year-old boy, during nationwide protests in 2022 but human rights groups said he was the victim of a wrongful conviction.
Jun 11, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 10, 2025 - The French Senate on Tuesday adopted a bill to regulate the fast fashion industry by sanctioning companies and banning advertisements.
Jun 10, 2025
Nice, France (AFP) June 10, 2025 - Dozens of countries at the UN oceans summit on Tuesday took a first step toward recognising an invisible but growing threat to marine life - underwater noise pollution.
Jun 10, 2025
Paris (AFP) June 10, 2025 - Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica have shrunk by almost a quarter as global warming transforms their icy habitat, according to new research on Tuesday that warned the losses were far worse than previously imagined.
Jun 10, 2025
Islamabad (AFP) June 10, 2025 - Pakistan announced on Tuesday a 20 percent hike in defence spending in this year's federal budget, a month after a conflict with India that saw the worst violence in decades.
Jun 10, 2025
Nice, France (AFP) June 10, 2025 - More than 90 countries called on Tuesday for a global treaty to restrict plastic production, ahead of another round of hard-fought negotiations on the pact.
Jun 10, 2025
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (AFP) June 10, 2025 - Equatorial Guinea's president has pardoned dozens of people accused of being separatists and arrested at an environmental protest a year ago on the tiny island of Annobon.
Jun 10, 2025
Thessaloniki, Greece (AFP) June 10, 2025 - A bear who pushed a hiker to his death in a ravine in northeast Greece may have thought humans were planning an attack, wildlife experts said Tuesday.
Jun 10, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) June 10, 2025 - Indonesia revoked permits on Tuesday for four of the five mining companies operating in the eastern archipelago of Raja Ampat after activists shared videos of islands damaged by nickel extraction.
Jun 10, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) June 10, 2025 - Seven people died in flooding caused by severe winter weather lashing eastern areas of South Africa and school children are missing after a minibus was swept away, the government said Tuesday.
Jun 10, 2025
Fort Bragg, United States (AFP) June 10, 2025 - President Donald Trump turned a trip marking the US army's 250th birthday into a political-style rally Tuesday, wrapping himself in martial symbolism as he defended his decision to send soliders to protest-hit Los Angeles.
Jun 10, 2025
United Nations, United States (AFP) June 10, 2025 - In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such operations in a meticulously planned economic and geopolitical strategy.
Jun 10, 2025
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2025 - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sparred with Democrats on Capitol Hill on Tuesday over the decision to send 5,000 Marines and National Guard troops into Los Angeles as some protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids turned violent.
Jun 10, 2025
