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UN makes ‘major breakthrough’ to prevent looming oil spill disaster in the Red Sea

  United Nations (United States) (AFP) – The United Nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker...

Indigenous land rights help protect Brazil’s forests

Paris (AFP) – Territories in Brazil's fragmented Atlantic Forest where Indigenous peoples enjoy secure land rights have seen measurably less deforestation than similar areas in...

Brazil’s Lula seeks to reverse Amazon deforestation

Shaking a traditional rattle, Brazil’s incoming head of Indigenous affairs recently walked through every corner of the agency’s headquarters — even its coffee room...

2022 among eight hottest years on record-UN

Geneva (AFP) – The past eight years were the hottest since records began, the United Nations confirmed Thursday, despite the cooling influence of a drawn-out...

Ocean temperatures in 2022 were highest ever recorded, study says

The world's oceans, which have absorbed most of the excess heat caused by humanity's carbon pollution, continued to see record-breaking temperatures last year, according...

Ozone layer slowly healing, may be restored within decades, says UN

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years,...

The last eight years were the warmest on world record

Paris (AFP) – The last eight years were the warmest on record even with the cooling influence of a La Nina weather pattern since 2020,...

Talks kick off on global plastic trash treaty

Punta del Este (Uruguay) (AFP) – Despite decades of effort, plastic pollution is only getting worse -- a gloomy fact that representatives of almost 200...

UN report: Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be placed ‘in danger’ list

Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be listed as a world heritage site that is "in danger", a UN panel recommended on Tuesday, saying the...

France and Spain joined a pledge to stop sales of gasoline-driven vehicles by 2035

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, (Reuters) - France and Spain on Thursday joined a pledge to stop sales of gasoline-driven vehicles by 2035, five years earlier...

Repeating many of last year’s goals The U.N. published draft of final agreement from COP27

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -The U.N. climate agency published a first draft on Thursday of a hoped-for final agreement from the COP27 climate summit,...

Sudan’s experts sound the alarm over the extinction of its rare wealth of wild birds due wildlife crimes and deforestation

Specialists in wildlife and environments have warned of significant risks to rare species of birds in Sudan because of wildlife crimes and the continuous...

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