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Copenhagen (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Discover a dying sea or cycle through protected natural areas covered in asphalt? A tourism campaign by Greenpeace's Danish branch seeks to highlight environmental pollution in the Nordic country.
May 8, 2025
Johannesburg (AFP) May 8, 2025 - More than 120 endangered vultures died after eating an elephant carcass poisoned by suspected poachers in South Africa in one of the single largest such spiking in the region, wildlife officials said Thursday.
May 8, 2025
Ranya (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Iraqi Mohammed Jalal lost 10 years of his life seeking asylum in Germany, without success. Instead of being granted refuge, he was sent back to the land he had fled.
May 8, 2025
Stockholm (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Prosecutors called Thursday for Sweden's self-proclaimed Queen of Trash and four others to be jailed for six years for illegally dumping toxic waste, as the country's biggest environmental crime trial ended.
May 8, 2025
Strasbourg, France (AFP) May 8, 2025 - EU lawmakers are set on Thursday to give the green light to downgrading wolf protections in the bloc, in line with a landmark change to conservation rules late last year.
May 8, 2025
Sydney (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt conceded the loss of his own parliamentary seat Thursday, blaming a flood of votes that swept to the triumphant Labor Party.
May 8, 2025
London (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Elk could roam the English countryside for the first time in 3,000 years after funding was approved to explore plans for their eventual reintroduction into the wild.
May 8, 2025
Argungu, Nigeria (AFP) May 8, 2025 - People along the Matan Fada in northwest Nigeria remember the river's abundance as being typified by fish literally falling from the trees, but those days are gone.
May 8, 2025
Srinagar, India (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Indian and Pakistani soldiers exchanged gunfire overnight in Kashmir, New Delhi said Thursday, a day after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed rivals in two decades.
May 8, 2025
Washington (AFP) May 8, 2025 - US President Donald Trump's administration will stop updating a long-running database of costly climate and weather disasters as part of its deep cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, according to a Thursday announcement.
May 8, 2025
Paris (AFP) May 8, 2025 - Global temperatures were stuck at near-record highs in April, the EU's climate monitor said on Thursday, extending an unprecedented heat streak and raising questions about how quickly the world might be warming.
May 8, 2025
Muzaffarabad, Pakistan (AFP) May 7, 2025 - Pakistan has warned it will avenge those killed by Indian air strikes that New Delhi said were in response to an attack in Kashmir, signalling an imminent escalation in the worst violence in decades between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
May 7, 2025
New Delhi (AFP) May 7, 2025 - India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Wednesday that missile strikes against Pakistan were a carefully planned operation that exercised New Delhi's right to respond.
May 7, 2025
Niamey, Niger (AFP) May 7, 2025 - Trucks, camel caravans and donkeys returning at nightfall laden with enormous cargoes of wood are becoming a rare sight in Niger's capital as jihadists encroach on forested areas.
May 7, 2025
Yuxi, China (AFP) May 7, 2025 - Visitors mill around a bright red hilltop pagoda in southwestern China, gazing down at a sprawling cigarette factory whose deadly output has put an otherwise unremarkable city on the map.
May 7, 2025
Istanbul (AFP) May 7, 2025 - Turkey on Wednesday warned of a risk of all-out war between India and Pakistan, after the worst violence between the nuclear-armed neighbours in two decades.
May 7, 2025
