California’s honey bees await the famous sunshine

Pasadena, United States, June 6 (AFP/APP):California’s very wet winter gifted the state a spectacular superbloom — an explosion of flowers that delighted hikers and should have been great news for bees. But beekeepers say lingering low temperatures and gray skies in the Golden State are […]

JEPTs key to renewable energy transition: experts

ISLAMABAD, Jun 3 (APP): Just energy transition partnerships (JETP) are vital to phaseout coal and mobilize investments towards renewable energy transition in Pakistan. This was the crux of a symposium on “Just energy transition in Pakistan” jointly organized by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and […]

Taiwan tribe despairs as drought shrinks bamboo crop

Taipei, June 2 (AFP/APP): Hacking at a bamboo plant with a machete, Avayi Vayayana peels back the shoot’s stiff bark as he scans southern Taiwan’s mountains, anxious for more of the money-making crop his Indigenous tribe increasingly struggles to find. Generations of the Tsou tribe […]

UN climate agency picks first woman leader

Geneva, June 1 (AFP/APP): The World Meteorological Organization voted in Argentina’s Celeste Saulo on Thursday to become its first woman leader and steer the WMO’s critical global role in tracking climate change. Saulo, a WMO vice president who has headed Argentina’s weather agency since 2014, […]

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