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Paris (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Inaction on the water crisis could put more than half of the world's food production at risk by 2050, experts warned in a major report published Thursday.
Oct 16, 2024
Kathmandu (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - Climate change, along with rapid urbanisation and deforestation, turbocharged floods in Nepal that killed more than 240 people last month, scientists said on Thursday.
Oct 16, 2024
Bogota (AFP) Oct 16, 2024 - The Colombian government said Tuesday it had granted the country's Indigenous groups new environmental authority on their lands, just days before hosting the UN's COP16 conference on biodiversity.
Oct 16, 2024
Dakar (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - Around 10 million children across four countries in west and central Africa are being kept out of school due to massive regional flooding, international charity Save the Children said Tuesday.
Oct 15, 2024
Jablanica, Bosnia And Herzegovina (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - Several hundred mourners on Tuesday attended a mass funeral service for 19 victims of the devastating floods and landslides that hit Bosnia earlier this month, an AFP reporter said.
Oct 15, 2024
Islamabad (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - China's Premier Li Qiang took part in a ceremony during his Pakistan visit to inaugurate a Beijing-funded airport, located in a volatile region where Chinese interests are routinely targeted by separatists.
Oct 15, 2024
Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - European scientists have teamed up with two startups in a pioneering experiment to tackle one of the major problems facing sea life - the depletion of oxygen in the ocean, causing the disappearance of fish and marine biodiversity.
Oct 15, 2024
Isla De Malpelo, Colombia (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - A lone catamaran named Silky patrols waters around the remote island of Malpelo, a refuge that is protected yet full of peril for endangered marine species in the Colombian Pacific.
Oct 15, 2024
Washington (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - Two giant pandas arrived at the Washington zoo on Tuesday in the latest chapter in China's campaign of international panda diplomacy.
Oct 15, 2024
Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - The latest draft of a UN climate deal published Tuesday narrows the options for increasing funding to poorer countries, but leaves unresolved the thorny question of how much they should receive.
Oct 15, 2024
Johannesburg (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - Millions of people across southern Africa are going hungry because of a historic drought that risks causing a full-scale humanitarian catastrophe, the United Nations warned Tuesday.
Oct 15, 2024
Sydney (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - Clinging to a fluffy toy twice her size, orphaned koala joey Ajooni made a snuffling noise as she drank milk from a tiny syringe.
Oct 15, 2024
Pingtan, China (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - People on both sides of the fraught Taiwan Strait pinned their hopes this week on peace, after Beijing launched military drills around the self-ruled island.
Oct 15, 2024
Taipei (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - Taiwan detected a record 153 Chinese military aircraft around the self-ruled island, official data showed Tuesday, after China held a day of large-scale drills.
Oct 15, 2024
Belgrade (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - Authorities in Montenegro advised the public on Tuesday to avoid the country's main sea port, in the Adriatic coastal town of Bar, after a lead and arsenic scare there.
Oct 15, 2024
Paris (AFP) Oct 15, 2024 - For supporters, biodiversity credits could unlock billions in much-needed funding for nature, but critics fear a repeat of scandals that have dogged other financial approaches to protecting the environment.
Oct 15, 2024
