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FILE PHOTO: Azerbaijani Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev attends the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2024. REUTERS/Liesa Johannssen/File Photo

COP29 host Azerbaijan launches climate fund, seeks fossil-fuel producer support

Azerbaijan, host of COP29, announced a $1 billion climate fund for developing nations, funded by 10 fossil-fuel producers and oil companies, aiming to...

By Valerie Volcovici19 Jul 2024Reuters

In Azougui, the ever-encroaching sand is gradually swallowing up the trees (AFP)

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Climate change threatens age-old Mauritania date harvest

As sand swallows palm trees, Mauritania's oases struggle to sustain ancient date harvest tradition.

By Adrien Marotte19 Jul 2024Agence France-Presse

Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change is photographed following a press conference announcing a conservation campaign at Whytecliff Park in West Vancouver, on Thursday, July 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Mar

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Federal govt announces $89 million for conservation projects across Canada

Canada's environment minister announced $89M for 10 GHG reduction projects, aiming to conserve 30% of land and water by 2030, with major initiatives...

By CP18 Jul 2024The Canadian Press

Botanist Florencia Peredo Ovalle works in her greenhouse in Gardnerville, Nevada, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. Ovalle, who works for mining company Ioneer, cares for specimens of Tiehm's buckwheat as part of an experiment aimed at helping to keep the extremely rare desert plant from going extinct while still allowing the company to dig for lithium on land where it grows. (AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

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Green agendas clash in Nevada as company grows rare plant to help it survive effects of a mine

Ioneer says the mine it wants to dig in Nevada would more than quadruple U.S. production of lithium needed to speed production of...

By Scott Sonner18 Jul 2024The Associated Press

FILE - Visitors to Point Woronzof Park watch the sun set over Cook Inlet and Mount Susitna, on June 7, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. A federal judge on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, has suspended the lone lease stemming from a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska's Cook Inlet basin after finding problems with the environmental review the sale was based on. (AP Photo/Dan Joling, File)

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US judge suspends Alaska Cook Inlet lease, pending additional environmental review

JUNEAU, Alaska — An environmental review underpinning a 2022 oil and gas lease sale in Alaska failed to properly analyze the potential impacts...

By Becky Bohrer17 Jul 2024The Associated Press

FILE PHOTO: Fur seals rest along the northern shore in St. George, Alaska, U.S., May 22, 2021. REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo

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US court overturns Alaska oil lease sale

The Alaska oil lease sale had been mandated by Biden administration's signature climate law as part of a political compromise.

By Reuters17 Jul 2024Reuters

A new study published by the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations says new projections show a possible steep decline in global fish biomass by the end of the century under high greenhouse gas emissions, with several areas of Atlantic Canadian fishing areas affected. In this April 23, 2016, file photo, cod fill a box on a trawler off the coast of Hampton Beach, N.H. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Robert F. Bukaty

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Fish biomass loss possible in Atlantic Canada amid rising emissions: researcher

Unchecked emissions could cause a steep decline in global fish populations, including in Atlantic Canada, by the end of the century.

By CP17 Jul 2024The Canadian Press

FILE - Sonny Curley looks out to the seawall separating his property from the Pacific Ocean at the home he shares with his children and parents Wednesday, May 22, 2024, on the Quinault reservation in Taholah, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Tuesday, July 16, that Washington has awarded $52 million raised by the state's landmark carbon emission pricing law to help Native American tribes respond to climate change. Among the tribes that will benefit is the Quinault Nation on the Pacific coast, which is getting $13 million to help move its two villages to higher ground as seas rise. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

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Funds from Washington’s landmark law help tribes face rising seas, climate change

Washington state allocates $52 million from its 2021 Climate Commitment Act to help Native American tribes combat climate change impacts and move to...

By Gene Johnson and Hallie Golden16 Jul 2024The Associated Press

Cypriot marine ecosystems are as much threatened by climate change as they are by mass tourism, coastal development and agricultural pollution (AFP)

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Cyprus pioneers coral conservation project in the Mediterranean

In Cyprus's Ayia Napa, divers are using floating nurseries to revive the declining Cladocora caespitosa coral, threatened by climate change and human activity.

By Anouk Riondet16 Jul 2024Agence France-Presse