Tag: environment

Lima (AFP) - Peru has declared an "environmental emergency" after an oil spill that triggered a clean-up operation on a ...

Lisbon (AFP) - A European operation has spared revellers a potential food poisoning nightmare before Christmas, seizing 30 tonnes of ...

Paris (AFP) - French and German rail operators launched the first direct high-speed rail link between Paris and Berlin on ...

San Salvador (AFP) - El Salvador's gang-busting strongman President Nayib Bukele has set out on a new mission: to kickstart ...

Washington (AFP) - The US government said Tuesday it was "disappointed" after nations negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic ...

Oslo (AFP) - Norway has suspended plans to start giving licences for deep-sea mining next year that had faced opposition ...

Oslo (AFP) - The World Wide Fund for Nature's (WWF) Norwegian chapter will have its day in court Thursday, after ...

Busan (South Korea) (AFP) - Negotiations on a first global treaty to curb plastic pollution are moving "very, very slowly", ...

Manila (AFP) - Long one of the world's top sources of ocean plastic, the Philippines is hoping new legislation requiring ...

United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Torn between the defenders of the world's seabeds and industrialists eager to exploit the ...