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Beijing (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Lawmakers from Tibet on Thursday hailed recent economic progress and vowed to keep high pressure on alleged separatists in the region, where Beijing stands accused of widespread repression of minorities.
Mar 6, 2025
Manila (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - The local government in a resource-rich Philippine province has unanimously voted in favour of a 50-year ban on new mining permits, a decision its supporters said cannot be overridden by Manila.
Mar 6, 2025
Paris (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - Global sea ice cover hit a historic low in February as the world endured exceptional heat, with temperatures near the North Pole soaring 11 degrees Celsius above average, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday.
Mar 6, 2025
Geneva (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - The cooling weather phenomenon La Nina that emerged late last year is weak and likely to be brief, the UN said Thursday, dashing hopes it could help rein in soaring global temperatures.
Mar 6, 2025
Santa Rosa De Lima, El Salvador (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 - El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has long killed them all.
Mar 6, 2025
Jakarta (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - Indonesian authorities have started to seed clouds to stem heavy rainfall that caused flooding around capital Jakarta, officials said, after one person died and thousands more were displaced.
Mar 5, 2025
Stockholm (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - The United Nations special rapporteur on environmental defenders has expressed concern that Sweden was treating its climate activists like criminals, following a two-day visit to the country.
Mar 5, 2025
Montreal (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - Canada on Wednesday proposed phasing out forever chemicals in many consumer products after finding them to be toxic and harmful at current high levels found in people and the environment.
Mar 5, 2025
Sodankyla, Finland (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - At a remote space centre in northern Finland near the Russian border, researchers are studying how climate change is impacting the Arctic region with more precision than anywhere else in Europe.
Mar 5, 2025
Lusaka (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - The Zambian government is allowing hazardous mining in the lead-contaminated central town of Kabwe, worsening severe health risks to children, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
Mar 5, 2025
Marseille (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - A French university announced Wednesday it would welcome scientists from the United States working in areas threatened by funding cuts under President Donald Trump's administration.
Mar 5, 2025
New Delhi (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - India's capital New Delhi has vowed to clear one of its largest trash piles by next year as part of a plan to eradicate unsightly landfills dotting the megacity's skyline.
Mar 5, 2025
Baghdad (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - US President Donald Trump's decision to cut foreign aid hinders Baghdad's efforts to repatriate its nationals from an IS-linked detention camp in Syria by the end of 2025, Iraqi National Security Adviser Qassem al-Araji told AFP on Wednesday.
Mar 5, 2025
Yangon (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - Fierce fighting between Myanmar's military junta and ethnic minority rebels closing in on the planned site of a strategic China-backed port has displaced 4,000 people, a local aid worker said on Wednesday.
Mar 5, 2025
Byron Bay, Australia (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - A rare tropical cyclone veered towards Australia's densely populated eastern coast on Wednesday, sparking emergency warnings, closing hundreds of schools, and threatening to flood thousands of homes.
Mar 5, 2025
Paris (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 - Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research published Wednesday underscoring the rainforest's pivotal role in regulating local and global climate.
Mar 5, 2025
