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Carbon 'capture' tech is booming, and confusing
AFP, Published on 04/07/2023
» PARIs: Humanity's failure to draw down planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions — 41 billion tonnes in 2022 — has thrust once-marginal options for capping or reducing CO2 in the atmosphere to centre stage in climate policy and investment.
UN troops set to leave Mali, but how fast?
AFP, Published on 29/06/2023
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - With the imminent end of the UN's Mali peacekeeping mission seemingly no longer in doubt, negotiations at the UN are still foundering over the timetable for their departure, which Bamako wants "without delay", according to diplomatic sources.
Sri Lanka unveils debt restructuring plan
AFP, Published on 29/06/2023
» COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's central bank on Thursday unveiled a far-reaching domestic debt restructuring plan aimed at restoring stability after an economic and political crisis last year that led to the toppling of then-president Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Canada sees record CO2 emissions from fires so far this year
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» PARIS - Wildfires raging across Canada, made more intense by global warming, have released more planet-warming carbon dioxide in the first six months of 2023 than in any full year on record, EU scientists said Tuesday.
Over $200bn in Covid-19 small business loans stolen: US govt. watchdog
AFP, Published on 28/06/2023
» WASHINGTON: The United States lost more than US$200 billion to fraud from two schemes designed to help small businesses through the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a US government watchdog report.
Football pitch of tropical forest lost every 5 seconds
AFP, Published on 27/06/2023
» PARIS - Earth lost an area of carbon-absorbing rainforest larger than Switzerland or the Netherlands in 2022, most of it destroyed to make way for cattle and commodity crops, an analysis of satellite data released Tuesday revealed.
Anti-NATO protest disrupts Irish neutrality debate
AFP, Published on 22/06/2023
» DUBLIN: A public debate on Ireland's international security policy, including its long-standing military neutrality, was disrupted by an anti-NATO demonstration in its opening session on Thursday.
Volvic on front line of France's new water fears
AFP, Published on 21/06/2023
» VOLVIC (FRANCE) - The public fountains in Volvic, the home of one of the world's most famous mineral waters, have been turned off.
Chinese premier in Germany as Western mistrust mounts
AFP, Published on 19/06/2023
» BERLIN - Germany's president Monday urged Beijing and Washington to boost dialogue, as he hosted Premier Li Qiang at a time when China's policies on Russia, trade and human rights are receiving an increasingly hostile reception in the West.
Europe is world's fastest warming continent: climate report
AFP, Published on 19/06/2023
» PARIS: Europe should brace for more deadly heatwaves driven by climate change, said a sweeping report on Monday, noting the world's fastest-warming continent was some 2.3 degrees Celsius hotter last year than in pre-industrial times.