France arrests activists blocking ship over alleged Russia uranium links
Dunkirk (France) (AFP) - Police arrested four Greenpeace activists on Monday for blocking a cargo ship in France that they ...
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Tag: environment
TotalEnergies in high-stakes French trial over climate change
Paris (France) (AFP) - TotalEnergies faces cutting back oil and gas production if NGOs prevail in a trial that began ...
Turkey fires up coal pollution even as it hosts COP31
Afşin (Turkey) (AFP) - Kaddafi Polat rarely mentions his own health after decades of breathing the polluted air blanketing his ...
Greece’s Cycladic islands swept up in concrete fever
Milos (Greece) (AFP) - On the sloping shoreline of the Greek Aegean island of Milos, a vast construction site has ...
BHP damages trial over Brazil mine disaster to open in 2027
London (AFP) - Australian mining giant BHP will face trial before a British court from April next year to determine ...
Brazil mine disaster victims in London to ‘demand what is owed’
London (AFP) - Victims of a 2015 dam collapse in Brazil, for which Australian mining giant BHP has been found ...
Germany brings back electric car subsidies to boost market
Berlin (AFP) - Germany on Monday reintroduced electric car subsidies as it seeks to accelerate the transition to less polluting ...
Brazil oil drilling near Amazon halted over ‘fluid leak’
Sao Paulo (AFP) - Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said Tuesday that a "fluid leak" had forced it to halt ...
French ban on ‘forever chemicals’ in cosmetics, clothing to enter force
Paris (France) (AFP) - A French ban on the production and sale of cosmetics and most clothing containing polluting and ...
France pushes back plastic cup ban by four years
Paris (France) (AFP) - The French government on Tuesday postponed a ban on plastic throwaway cups by four years to ...
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