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As climate impacts grow, so do calls for 'loss and damage' funds
Jun 15, 2022 (AFP)
The contentious issue of "loss and damage" has been a major focus of an ongoing United Nations climate talks in Germany tasked with laying the groundwork for th...
Floods, fires, heat waves: US struggles with climate catastrophes
Jun 14, 2022 (AFP)
A series of slow motion disasters is gripping the country as it enters summer, with warnings of misery for months to come in some areas. Around 120 million peop...
Greenpeace urges Arab nations avert Yemen environmental disaster
Jun 08, 2022 (AFP)
The environmental group said an urgent meeting was needed for the FSO Safer, after a UN pledging conference last month fell far short of its $80 million target....
Brazil rescuers end search after storms that killed 128
Jun 03, 2022 (AFP)
Days of torrential rain late last month in the region around Recife, the capital of Pernambuco state, triggered flash floods and violent landslides that wiped o...
How will humans survive a global catastrophe?
Jun 02, 2022 (SPX)
A new paper published in the journal Risk Analysis suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that a refuge is a viable concept and may not need to be geo...
Gunmaker Ruger shareholders demand report on impact of firearms
Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)
The manufacturer's annual meeting approved a proposal by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, which are also shareholders of Sturm Ruge...
Fear of landslides haunts Brazil survivors
Jun 02, 2022 (AFP)
"We have children, we have all our things inside the house. We stay up until dawn, afraid that the hill will fall on us," Claudia do Rosario told AFP on Wednesd...
Ukraine war boosts Africa's humanitarian emergency: UN official
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
Cereal prices have surged because of the slump in exports from one of the world's bread baskets. In Africa, rising food costs are sharpening the impact of confl...
Biden asks New Zealand's Ardern for advice on extremist gun violence
May 31, 2022 (AFP)
Meeting in the Oval Office with Ardern, Biden referred to the 2019 Christchurch slaying of 51 people in mass shootings targeting Muslims. The bloodshed prompted...
'Do something now:' mourners demand action after US school shooting
May 27, 2022 (AFP)
Ten-year-old Amerie Garza -- a fourth-grader who loved her classes, drawing, and playing with clay -- was one of 19 children murdered by a teen gunman at Robb E...
Putin ready to help overcome food crisis if West lifts sanctions
May 27, 2022 (AFP)
Russia was slapped with unprecedented sanctions after Putin ordered troops into neighbouring Ukraine on February 24. The sanctions and military action have disr...
Gun violence response leaves US standing a world apart
May 25, 2022 (AFP)
"'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" reads the title, which the outlet published on Wednesday for the 21st time since 2014....
For Iraqis back from Syria, life on hold in 'rehabilitation' camp
May 22, 2022 (AFP)
The 35-year-old mother of five fled to neighbouring Syria in 2014 to escape violence at home after the Islamic State group swept across swathes of Syria and Ira...
Israeli firm hopes AI can curb drownings
May 20, 2022 (AFP)
The programme, developed by a company called SightBit, uses information collected from surveillance cameras to determine who is in the water -- an adult or chil...
Record-breaking cold in Brazil threatens homeless, crops
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
With 1.4 degrees Celsius, the capital Brasilia recorded the coldest temperature in its history on Thursday, with more than a month to go until the official star...
IAEA chief praises progress on Fukushima decommissioning
May 19, 2022 (AFP)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Rafael Mariano Grossi is in Japan on a two-day trip to assess efforts to dismantle the Fukushima Daiichi plant af...
Mayday and Satellogic collaborate to modernize risk and disaster intelligence
May 17, 2022 (SPX)
The combined technological capabilities of the two companies will remove barriers between upstream and downstream EO data and establish new standards for risk a...
What's behind the US baby formula shortage
May 16, 2022 (The Conversation)
Media reports have highlighted the plight of mothers, fathers and caregivers across the U.S. who have scrambled to find scarce supplies, or driven long distance...
Myanmar junta to reopen borders to tourists
May 12, 2022 (AFP)
The country closed its borders to visitors in March 2020 at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to prevent infections rising. It was further...
DLR data shows where people are at risk from natural disasters
May 11, 2022 (SPX)
This is why the German Aerospace Center and the World Bank have worked together to evaluate Earth observation images from the entire African continent and combi...
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