Tag: environment

Lagos (AFP) - Growing up in southern Nigeria during the 1970s, Bubaraye Dakolo would easily catch 20 kilograms of fish ...

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) (AFP) - Petrobras said Monday it had received a license to drill for oil near the ...

London (AFP) - Britain's Labour government plans to permanently ban fracking, a highly controversial method of extracting fossil fuels, due ...

Jakarta (AFP) - Nickel mining threatens one of the world's most important marine biodiversity and coral hotspots in Indonesia, despite ...

Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - The EU said Tuesday it will seek a new one-year delay to sweeping anti-deforestation rules cheered ...

Jakarta (AFP) - Indonesian authorities have seized a small section of the world's largest nickel mine for encroaching on forest ...

Leopoldsburg (Belgium) (AFP) - Considered powerful, heavy-duty vehicles by their fans and dangerous gas-guzzling "monsters" by detractors -- could large ...

Zug (Switzerland) (AFP) - A Swiss court on Wednesday weighed up whether to hear a landmark climate case pitting residents ...

Oslo (AFP) - The Norwegian state and environmental groups face off in court again Thursday over three oil fields ruled ...

Geneva (AFP) - Attempts to secure a landmark treaty combating plastic pollution descended into disarray on the penultimate day of ...