The Pacific island nation that wants to mine the ocean floor
Rarotonga (Cook Islands) (AFP) - A 1,000-tonne ship is exploring the far-flung South Pacific for riches buried beneath the waves, ...
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Tag: climate change
World’s major courts take growing role in climate fight
Paris (AFP) - The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global ...
South Africa warns global turmoil threaten development goals
Durban (South Africa) (AFP) - G20 chair South Africa warned Thursday that abandoning the rules-based global order and declining cooperation ...
US senator warns of fossil fuel coup, economic reckoning
Washington (AFP) - One of the US Senate's leading climate advocates says President Donald Trump's administration no longer governs -- ...
The long slow death of Norway’s wild salmon
Hegra (Norway) (AFP) - Waist-deep in a rain-swollen river, Christer Kristoffersen cast his line, landed it gently on the water, ...
Drought-hit Morocco turns to desalination to save vegetable bounty
Agadir (Morocco) (AFP) - On the drought-stricken plains of Morocco's Chtouka region, cherry tomato farms stretch as far as the ...
UN aid meeting seeks end to Global South debt crisis
Seville (Spain) (AFP) - More than 100 nations attending a UN aid conference pledged this week to help defuse the ...
UN chief urges aid surge in world of ‘climate chaos, raging conflicts’
Seville (Spain) (AFP) - UN chief Antonio Guterres urged the world to "rev up the engine of development" at an ...
Tech giants’ net zero goals verging on fantasy: researchers
Paris (AFP) - The credibility of climate pledges by the world's tech giants to rapidly become carbon neutral is fading ...
Green bonds offer hope, and risk, in Africa’s climate fight
Lagos (AFP) - It only took two days for Nigeria to raise $59 million through green bonds -- part of ...
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