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Tokyo (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - It will take six months to a year to analyse a tiny sample of radioactive debris retrieved by a robot from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday.
Nov 21, 2024
Baku (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - A fresh draft of a climate pact unveiled Thursday at COP29 failed to break an impasse between nations, with negotiators racing against the clock to broker a trillion-dollar finance agreement.
Nov 21, 2024
Reykjavik (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - A fishing village and tourist hot spot in southwest Iceland was evacuated late Wednesday after a volcano erupted in the region for the seventh time in a year, officials said.
Nov 21, 2024
Baku (AFP) Nov 21, 2024 - A fresh draft deal published Thursday at the deadlocked COP29 climate talks shows rich and poor countries still divided as time runs out to strike a finance agreement for developing nations.
Nov 21, 2024
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 21, 2024 - The BIOCAL expedition, led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), has unveiled critical evidence of the atlantification of th
Nov 21, 2024
Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - Human-driven warming of ocean temperatures increased the maximum wind speeds of every Atlantic hurricane in 2024, according to a new analysis released Wednesday, highlighting how climate change is amplifying the destructive power of storms.
Nov 20, 2024
Madrid (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - Spain's under-fire ecological transition minister, a candidate for a top European Commission post, said Wednesday that questioning the role of state agencies during the country's devastating floods was dangerous.
Nov 20, 2024
Buenos Aires (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - An Argentine farmer was given a three-year prison sentence for animal cruelty Wednesday, likely to be commuted, after being found guilty of killing over 100 Patagonian penguin chicks.
Nov 20, 2024
Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - Talkative and commandeering as he testified in court Wednesday, Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai still seemed like a man used to being in charge despite spending most of the last four years in jail.
Nov 20, 2024
Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - Kazakhstan said Wednesday that almost 2,000 seal carcasses on its Caspian Sea shores in under a month, raising new concerns over the endangered species.
Nov 20, 2024
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 20, 2024 - As Arctic temperatures increase, marine-terminating glaciers, particularly in Svalbard, are retreating rapidly and experiencing higher rates of calving. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Space
Nov 20, 2024
Dakar (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - As Senegal's ruling party heads for an overwhelming majority in weekend parliamentary elections, expectations are high for the new leaders to deliver on their promise of a profound political shake-up.
Nov 20, 2024
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - An overwhelming majority of EU governments opposed further amending a sweeping anti-deforestation law on Wednesday, rejecting a last-ditch effort by parliament to ease the controversial rules, diplomatic sources said.
Nov 20, 2024
Los Angeles, United States (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - A bomb cyclone was lashing the western United States on Wednesday, bringing hurricane-force winds that have killed at least two people and left half a million without power.
Nov 20, 2024
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 20, 2024 - Olive seeds that were part of space mutation experiments aboard the Shenzhou XIV spacecraft in 2022 have successfully germinated in Longnan, Gansu province, Northwest China, as reported by China Cen
Nov 20, 2024
Baku (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - With Donald Trump expected to take the United States again out of climate diplomacy, China, the world's largest emitter but green energy powerhouse, is seizing on the chance to project itself as the global leader.
Nov 20, 2024
