Saturday, 15 March 2025

Focus on Environment

FILE - Steam is seen at the Longview WestRock mill, which makes cardboard materials including container board and corrugated containers, March 14, 2024, in Longview, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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Washington state’s landmark climate law hangs in the balance in November

A landmark Washington law cutting carbon emissions may be repealed by voters just two years after taking effect.

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Meet the microbes that transform toxic carbon monoxide into valuable biofuel

Microbes can turn waste, like carbon monoxide, into biofuels, offering a green solution to industrial emissions and waste.

The COP29 climate summit will take place from 11 to 22 November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan (AFP)
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Little progress at key meet ahead of COP29 climate summit

Key pre-COP29 meeting ends with little progress on funding a new climate finance deal, as rich countries fail to commit to amounts.

FILE PHOTO: 'Cholita' a Spectacled bear walks on a tree at the dry forest of the Chaparri Natural Reserve in Peru's northern region of Lambayeque October 19, 2014. 'Cholita' was rescued when was living as a pet and is now in the process of adaptation to return to their natural habitat, living in semi-captivity. Picture taken October 19, 2014. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo/File Photo
BiodiversityClimateEnvironmentNews

Record wildfires ravage Peru’s ecosystems and wildlife

A record number of fires tore through Peru over the past few weeks, wreaking havoc across the country's ecosystems.

FILE PHOTO: A general view of a palm oil plantation in Siak regency, Riau province, Indonesia, April 26, 2022. Picture taken with a drone on April 26, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan/File Photo
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Indonesia, Malaysia, EU work on guide for smallholders on EU deforestation rules

Indonesia, Malaysia, and the EU will create a practical deforestation guide for smallholders by November.

Save Coastal Wildlife's Jenna Reynolds points at a pod of harbor seals swimming in Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey (Save Coastal Wildlife)
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On US coast, wind power foes embrace ‘Save the Whales’ argument

Anti-wind power groups along the US East Coast blame whale strandings on offshore projects, despite no scientific evidence.

FILE PHOTO: A drone view shows moored boats at the dry banks of Rio Amazonas during a drought in Santarem, Para state, Brazil October 8, 2024. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo
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Drought blocks shipping in another grains corridor in northern Brazil

Brazil's Amport reports grain transport on Tapajos waterway halted due to severe drought and low water levels in northern Brazil.

Paris is remove a network of obsolete power cables with new ones more resistant to extreme heat (AFP)
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Paris switches to climate-resilient power cables

Paris is modernizing its 60-year-old underground electric cables to withstand heatwaves, replacing obsolete paper-insulated cables.

A month before the UN COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan nations remain at odds over how to deliver much-needed finance to poorer countries (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA)
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World can’t ‘waste time’ trading climate change blame: COP29 hosts

UN climate summit hosts urge countries to stop assigning blame for global warming and focus on finding solutions together.

FILE PHOTO: Aerial photo shows farmers planting corn in the Kunjang rice fields, Kediri, East Java province, Indonesia, April 10, 2023, in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Muhammad Mada/via REUTERS /File Photo
AgricultureEnvironmentNews

Indonesia’s Prabowo to expand farmland by 3 million hectares for self-sufficiency

Indonesia's incoming president, Prabowo Subianto, vows to achieve food self-sufficiency in four years.

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