Thursday, 28 August 2025

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FILE PHOTO: People walk near the Baku Olympic Stadium, the venue of the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan October 18, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov/File Photo
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Future of UN climate dialogue threatened by budget shortfall

The UN's climate body faces a €57M budget shortfall for 2024, risking climate talks as key donors delay contributions.

Climate activists disrupt a speech by Donald Trump in Indianola, Iowa (AFP)
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Trump vs Harris: Competing visions for a warming world

Trump and Harris offer starkly different climate visions, with Trump's "drill" policies clashing against Harris' green energy support.

A wildlife ranger looks through binoculars at the El Gran Sabalo Indigenous Reservation in southwest Colombia (AFP)
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Colombia’s Awa people resist violence, maintain ‘spiritual bond’ with nature

Colombia's Awa people face armed threats while protecting their rainforest home, emphasizing a deep spiritual bond with nature.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese react during the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Apia, Samoa, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft/Pool)
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Australia and UK make pact to partner on 2050 net-zero climate goal

Australia and the U.K. deepen ties with a climate and energy pact, aiming for net-zero by 2050, and reaffirm AUKUS submarine plans.

Leeds is one of the cities chosen (Richard McCarthy/PA)
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Six towns and cities chosen to pilot England’s first clean heating networks

England's first clean heat network zones will launch in Leeds, Bristol, Plymouth, Stockport, Sheffield, and two London areas.

Environmentalists are urging Google to crackdown on climate denialism. (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
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Google urged to step up efforts to demonetize climate falsehoods

Groups urge Google to enforce its climate disinformation demonetization policy as ads persist on misleading content despite bans.

FILE - In this July 30, 2019, file photo, a red-cockaded woodpecker looks to a biologist as it is released back into in a long leaf pine forest at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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Red-cockaded woodpeckers’ recovery in southeast leads to status change from endangered to threatened

The red-cockaded woodpecker is downlisted to "threatened" as its population rebounds, marking a conservation milestone.

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Environmentalists sue New York, New Jersey and Delaware over endangered sturgeon

Lawsuits accuse NY, NJ, and Delaware of violating the Endangered Species Act by allowing Atlantic sturgeon to be killed as bycatch.

FILE - Tiehm's buckwheat grows in a greenhouse in Gardnerville, Nevada, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. The endangered desert wildflower stands in the way of a mining company's plans to dig for lithium to help speed production of batteries for electric cars and other green energy projects. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File)
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Nevada lithium mine wins final approval despite potential harm to endangered wildflower

Biden admin approves Nevada lithium mine, key to clean energy push, despite environmentalists' lawsuits over endangered wildflower.

A UNEP report has warned of a catastrophic 3.1C rise in temperature (Ben Birchall/PA)
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World on track for ‘catastrophic’ 3.1C of global warming this century, UN warns

The world is on track for a “catastrophic” 3.1C of global warming, the UN warns calling for efforts to cut emissions driving climate...

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