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Baku (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - Pressure mounted on rich nations Wednesday to commit nearly $1 trillion a year in assistance for poorer countries as time runs out to strike a deal at the COP29 climate talks.
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
University Park PA (SPX) Nov 20, 2024 - Phosphorus, a nutrient in soil essential for sustaining most forms of life, is increasingly disappearing from land as it is washed into waterways throughout the United States, according to a new stu
Nov 20, 2024
Manila (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - A baby Philippine Eagle has hatched in the Southeast Asian country with the help of artificial insemination, sparking hope that science and conservation can save the critically endangered raptor from extinction.
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
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 20, 2024 - Scientists have shed light on the dramatic changes that reshaped the Mediterranean Sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a significant geological event that occurred between 5.97 and 5.33 millio
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
Sydney (AFP) Nov 20, 2024 - China has renewed efforts to curry favour in Pacific island nations, a new report found Wednesday, after charting a resurgence in Beijing-backed aid and infrastructure funding.
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
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
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
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Nov 19, 2024 - European lawmakers are closing in on a deal to greenlight the EU's new executive team after a week-long standoff that threatened to derail the process, parliamentary sources said on Tuesday.
Nov 19, 2024
Beijing (AFP) Nov 19, 2024 - Beijing said Tuesday the head of a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group had come to China for medical care, after news reports in its war-torn neighbour said he had been arrested on Chinese orders.
Nov 19, 2024
Chiva, Spain (AFP) Nov 19, 2024 - Spain's royals made a highly anticipated return to the epicentre of catastrophic floods on Tuesday after a chaotic trip where survivors hurled mud and insults at them.
Nov 19, 2024
Washington (AFP) Nov 19, 2024 - A US lawmaker said he was nearly assaulted while attending COP29 in Azerbaijan in what he called a government-orchestrated attack, leading Washington on Tuesday to press Baku to ensure safety at the global climate talks.
Nov 19, 2024
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP) Nov 19, 2024 - Pakistani authorities announced that schools would reopen Wednesday in Punjab, the country's most populated province, after a drop in dangerous air pollution.
Nov 19, 2024
