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People attend a protest against Rio Tinto's lithium mining project, in Valjevo, Serbia, August 19, 2024. REUTERS/Zorana Jevtic
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Scores in central Serbia rally against Rio Tinto’s lithium project

Serbians protest Rio Tinto's lithium project in Valjevo, fearing environmental damage despite potential economic benefits.

FILE - People queue for food at a World Food Programme distribution center in Neno district southern Malawi, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Kenneth Jali, file)
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Malawi receives $11.2 million for drought disaster linked to El Nino

The El Nino linked drought in Malawi led the southern African nation to declare a state of disaster earlier this year.

An electrical transformer explodes after the passage of Tropical Storm Ernesto in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Alberto Bartolomei)
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Hurricane Ernesto aims for Bermuda after leaving many in Puerto Rico without power or water

Half a million thought be without power in Puerto Rico as Hurricane Ernesto moves on towards Bermuda.

FILE PHOTO: Saplings grown at the nursery of the nonprofit environmental group Rioterra, await planting to restore areas of a nearby rainforest, at the Jamari National Forest, in Itapua do Oeste, Rondonia state, Brazil, February 18, 2020. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini/File Photo
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World Bank prices $225 million bond linked to Amazon reforestation

The bond is 100% principal-protected, with the $225 million proceeds used to back the World Bank's sustainable development initiatives worldwide.

A boat pushes barges on the water in the upper Mobile–Tensaw Delta on Wednesday, June 5, 2024, near McIntosh, Ala. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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Takeaways from AP’s story on Alabama’s ecologically important Mobile-Tensaw Delta and its watershed

Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw Delta, rich in biodiversity, faces threats from development and climate change, sparking conservation efforts.

FILE - Workers stand atop a tower that will spray carbon dioxide into the rainforest north of Manaus, Brazil, May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Crispim, File)
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Amazon rainforest stores carbon for the world, but this carbon sink is at risk: study

The Amazon rainforest stores nearly two years' worth of global carbon emissions, but deforestation threatens to turn it from a carbon sink into...

FILE - Pelicans fly near the shore as waves from the Pacific Ocean roll in on May 14, 2024, on the Quinault reservation in Taholah, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
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Pacific Northwest tribes are battered by climate change but fight to get money meant to help them

Coastal tribes lead climate adaptation but face significant bureaucratic barriers to accessing essential government funds, a report reveals.

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Huge gas fields – under a coral reef. Will a rejection on environmental grounds stop Woodside’s Browse project?

Woodside's A$30 billion Browse gas project faces rejection due to environmental concerns, challenging Australia's biggest oil and gas company.

A sign saying "Access forbidden to unauthorized persons" is displayed in front of a house bought by Rio Tinto company in the village of Gornje Nedeljice, in the fertile Jadar Valley in western Serbia, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Residents of Serbia’s lithium-rich region vow to block EU-backed mining

Thousands are expected to show for a major rally this Saturday in Belgrade, calling for a law to ban lithium mining in Serbia

FILE PHOTO: Volunteer firefighter members of the Alto Pantanal Brigade are seen on a tractor as they work to extinguish a fire rising in the Pantanal, the world's largest wetland, in Corumba, Mato Grosso do Sul state, Brazil, June 14, 2024. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino/File Photo
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Climate change fueled record early fires in Brazil’s wetlands, study says

Climate change has amplified wildfires in Brazil's Pantanal by 40%, threatening to surpass the 2020 devastation, scientists warn.

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