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Gas giants: Can we stop cows from emitting so much methane?
AFP, Published on 27/10/2021
» COURNON-D'AUVERGNE (FRANCE) - That cow may look peaceful and harmless, munching on some grass in a verdant pasture.
Social cost of 2019's plastic more than GDP of India
AFP, Published on 06/09/2021
» MARSEILLE: The pollution, emissions and clean-up costs of plastic produced in 2019 alone could be $3.7 trillion, according to a report released Monday by wildlife charity WWF, warning of the environmental and economic burden of this "seemingly cheap" material.
Evacuation orders widened as California fire spreads
AFP, Published on 06/08/2021
» GREENVILLE (UNITED STATES) - Evacuation orders were widened Thursday as California's biggest wildfire raged through the state's tinder-dry landscape, laying waste to hundreds of square miles (kilometers).
Giant pig farms accused of defiling Mexico's 'sacred wells'
AFP, Published on 05/08/2021
» MéRIDA, Mexico: Long revered by the Maya people as sacred and today a magnet for tourists, local indigenous communities fear the water-filled sinkholes of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are under threat from industrial pig farms.
Boom or bust as Spain, Italy get biggest slice of EU fund
AFP, Published on 25/06/2021
» MADRID : Spain and Italy will receive the lion's share of the 750-billion-euro EU rescue fund but opinions vary over whether it will help their economies roar back to life or go to waste.
Nuclear reactor problem a new headache for designer and China
AFP, Published on 16/06/2021
» PARIS - The emergence of problems in a new-generation nuclear reactor in China threatens to undermine efforts by its French designer to sell it elsewhere, and could hurt Beijing's nuclear industry, analysts said.
Kyrgyz lawmakers back seizure of Canadian-run gold mine
AFP, Published on 18/05/2021
» BISHKEK (KYRGYZSTAN) - Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted Monday in favour of a plan to seize the country's largest gold mine after the Canada-based operator said it was taking the government to an international court.
At the foot of the Pyrenees planes put out to pasture
AFP, Published on 18/02/2021
» TARBES (FRANCE) - Under the snow-capped Pyrenees, dozens of planes are lined up like toys on a shelf, at one of several airports in southern Europe where parking planes has become big business thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Deadliest catch: Recycling Thailand's 'ghost' fishing nets
AFP, Published on 22/01/2021
» CHONBURI: Underwater divers in plastic-choked waters off the coast snip through discarded fishng nets tangled around a reef -- a new initiative helping protect marine life and by recycling also aid the fight against coronavirus.
China's 'Spidermen': Litter-picking over the abyss
AFP, Published on 08/12/2020
» ZHANGJIAJIE (CHINA) - Dangling 400 metres (1,300 feet) over a void, suspended only by a cord, Yang Feiyue is not your average litter-picker.