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Biden taps insider Podesta as US climate envoy
President Joe Biden on Wednesday named John Podesta as US climate envoy, picking another veteran Washington insider to succeed Joh...
India's elusive snow leopards snapped in key surve...
Snow leopards have been dubbed the "ghosts of the mountains" for their elusive behaviour, but Indian researchers have successfully...
Australia scientists pluck rare handfish from ocea...
Scientists have collected 25 extremely rare red handfish from the ocean off Australia, hoping to protect the struggling species fr...
New mayor hopes trees will cool Athens down
Athens' new mayor will plant 25,000 trees over the next five years to try to cool the sprawling Greek capital, he told AFP.
'The sun didn't sting so much before': fires stun...
The once bright green Andean forest where Maria Yadira Jimenez worked as a tour guide has been reduced to ashes.
Giant waves flood key US military base on Marshall...
A clean-up operation was underway Thursday after giant waves flooded a key US military base on the Marshall Islands in the heart o...
Warming world dampening winter sports in Canada
Christmas was without snow, then temperatures seesawed throughout January in much of Canada, as the increasing effects of climate...
King coal set to lose crown for electricity produc...
Renewables are set to displace coal as the top source of energy for electricity production globally in 2025, the International Ene...
Fierce winter weather slams US, dozens dead
Unrelenting storms have pummelled the United States over the past week, leading to at least 50 weather-related deaths, officials a...
Tens of thousands sign up for French electric car...
The French government has been flooded with applications from low-income households to lease a subsidised electric car from 100 eu...
Tata Steel to cut 3,000 jobs in Wales: source
Indian-owned Tata Steel is to cut about 3,000 jobs at a plant in Wales, a source said Thursday, as the industry struggles to finan...
Heavy snow, freezing rain hobble European travel
Severe winter weather in northern Europe prompted the cancellation of hundreds of flights Wednesday at Frankfurt airport, Germany'...
New York finally ends record 700 plus days without...
New York on Tuesday finally ended a record streak of more than 700 days without measurable snowfall, with a thin layer of white po...
Trump steamrolls on to New Hampshire after Iowa la...
Donald Trump stormed towards New Hampshire on Tuesday, knowing that a repeat of his runaway win in Iowa would all but seal the Rep...
Lack of snow sparks worry for drought-hit Afghanis...
Afghanistan saw almost no snow as of mid-January, a new sign of the heavy toll of global warming on the Central Asian country whic...
Trump passes major US election test with win in Io...
Donald Trump swept to victory Monday in Iowa's caucuses -- the first vote in the US presidential race -- cementing his status as t...
Trump faces major test as frigid Iowa kick-starts...
Iowa Republicans kicked off the nominating contests for November's US presidential election in an Arctic blast Monday as Donald Tr...
Republican election race kicks off in frigid Iowa,...
Voters in a brutally cold Iowa kick of the US Republican presidential nomination race Monday -- the first major test of whether Do...
Republican US presidential contest kicks off in fr...
Voters kick off the US Republican presidential nomination race Monday with caucuses in freezing Iowa, the first major test of whet...
Syrian farmers abandon the land for steadier jobs
After years of war, drought and economic crisis, Omar Abdel-Fattah was forced to rent out his farmland in northeast Syria, preferr...
'Intense' US blizzard blows Iowa caucus campaignin...
Plunging temperatures, whipping wind and buckets of snow derailed the final stretch of caucus campaigning in the US state of Iowa...
Green tech pumps water from air at CES
Tech aimed at battling climate change and even pumping fresh water out of thin air attracted crowds as the annual CES gadget extra...
Big freeze grips US, chilling Iowa caucus campaign...
A big freeze gripped swathes of the United States on Friday, jamming transport and dumping heavy snow across the north, including...
World added 50% more renewable energy capacity las...
The world added 50 percent more renewable energy capacity in 2023 over the year before, the International Energy Agency said Thurs...
Five dead in US storms, country girds for more fie...
Swaths of the United States braced for more snow and punishingly low temperatures Wednesday as millions in the east dug out from a...
Deadly storms buffet US, leave hundreds of thousan...
Severe weather battered the United States Tuesday, spinning off tornadoes and reportedly killing three people in the South as high...
US braces for major storm, hundreds of thousands w...
A major storm system was battering parts of the United States on Tuesday, spinning off tornadoes in the south as forecasters warne...
Norway greenlights deep-sea mining exploration
Norway's parliament on Tuesday adopted a government plan to open up parts of its seabed to mining exploration, despite protests fr...
Bhutan's Tobgay, environmental advocate facing eco...
The man set to become Bhutan's new prime minister is a passionate environmental advocate and sportsman, a veteran politician in a...
2023 hottest recorded year as Earth nears key limi...
The year of 2023 was the hottest on record, with the increase in Earth's surface temperature nearly crossing the critical threshol...
France drops renewables targets in new energy bill
Critics are deriding as a step backward a new French energy bill that favours the further development of nuclear power and avoids...
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon halved in 2023
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by half last year, according to figures released Friday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula...