Climate & Environment

Geneva, March 6 (AFP/APP): The United Nations announced on Monday that it had taken a step towards filling a key gap in the fight against climate change, with plans for standardised, real-time tracking of global greenhouse gases. The UN’s World Meteorological Organization has come up […]

HANOI, March 6 (Xinhua/APP):– Many localities in Vietnam including the capital city of Hanoi have been urged to take swift action to address the increasingly severe air pollution problem, local newspaper Vietnam News reported on Monday. The air quality in Hanoi and other localities is […]

United Nations, United States, March 5 (AFP/APP):UN member states finally agreed Saturday, following years of talks, to a text on the first international treaty to protect the high seas, a fragile and vital treasure that covers nearly half the planet. “The ship has reached the […]

NEW YORK, Mar 03 (APP): Pakistan’s climate defender Ayisha Siddiqa is among US Time magazine’s twelve 2023 Women of the Year, calling them “extraordinary leaders who are working toward a more equal world”. The mass circulation weekly magazine will host its second annual Women of […]

Panama City, March 2 (AFP/APP): The European Union on Wednesday announced it would dedicate 816.5 million euros ($865 million) to ocean conservation in 2023. At the Our Ocean global conference in Panama, the EU confirmed its “strong commitment to protect, restore and take care of […]

BeaumontoisenPérigord, France, Feb 28 (AFP/APP):A French farmer steps away from his barn and fills up a tractor with fuel made from the manure of his cows, an attempt to put their climate-damaging methane to good use. Anchored by a stone farmhouse, much has changed on […]

the collective obligation of the society to ensure the protection and maintenance of the plants after the plantation. He expressed these views after inaugurating the plantation campaign 2023 here on Tuesday. Planting trees was an ongoing charity and the best way to serve humanity, he […]

Paris, Feb 26 (AFP/APP):For species classified as “extinct in the wild”, the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown. Re-wilding what are often single-digit populations faces the […]

WELLINGTON, Feb 23 (Xinhua/APP): New Zealand will hold an inquiry to investigate forestry slash and land use causing woody debris and sediment-related damage in Gisborne and Wairoa, after Cyclone Gabrielle lashed the North Island and killed 11 people over the past week. The two-month inquiry […]

Paris, Feb 22 (AFP/APP): Activists in Paris Wednesday called out two banks involved in the financing of a controversial fossil fuel project in East Africa, part of a coordinated protest across a dozen cities worldwide. About 30 young campaigners from the Stop Total collective demonstrated […]