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Sydney -
Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffered a "catastrophic die-off" of coral during an extended heatwave in 2016, threatening a broader range of reef life than previously feared, a report revealed Thursday.
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Following widespread blowing dust and wildfire activity early this week in the Southwest and central and southern High Plains, a resurgence of strong winds at midweek will perpetuate the fire threat.
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By AFP
Tehran -
An Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday criticised a recent crackdown on environmental activists and officials, saying it risked "bad consequences for the country", the semi-official ISNA news agency reported.
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By AFP
London -
A clean-up operation in the British city where a former Russian spy was poisoned began Tuesday, with officials saying the nerve agent used was delivered in "liquid form" and small quantities.
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By AFP
Luxembourg -
Poland's rightwing government broke the law by logging in one of Europe's last primeval forests, a UNESCO world heritage site, the European Union's top court ruled Tuesday.
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Victoria -
A severe tissue-destroying ulcer once rare in Australia is rapidly spreading and is now at epidemic proportions in regions of Victoria, prompting infectious diseases experts to call for urgent research into how it is contracted and spread.
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By AFP
Tehran -
A top Iranian environment official, who symbolised government efforts to encourage expat Iranians to return home, has quit just seven months into his job, sources said Monday.
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By AFP
Tirana -
With feathers on its head that make it look like it is wearing a wig, it does not go unnoticed -- the Dalmatian pelican is back with a flourish in the Divjaka Lagoon in western Albania.
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By AFP
Paris -
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday defended his government's backing of a controversial pipeline project, saying the world could not afford to choose between the environment and the economy.
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By AFP
Tampa -
Iconic animals like elephants, tigers, lions and panda bears are everywhere in movies, books and toystores. But their wide pop culture presence skews public perception of how endangered these animals really are, researchers said Thursday.
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By AFP
Washington -
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday defended budget proposals that would sharply cut or eliminate American support for multilateral aid agencies and programs.
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By AFP
Paris -
A system of Atlantic Ocean currents that regulates global weather is at its feeblest in 1,600 years, weakened partly by climate change, said researchers Wednesday, warning of trouble ahead.
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By AFP
Notre-dame-des-landes -
Activists reinforced by dozens of their supporters clashed with police for a third day in western France on Wednesday to oppose their eviction from an anti-capitalist camp set up 10 years ago to protest a new airport.
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By AFP
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Clashes broke out before dawn at an anti-capitalist camp in western France on Wednesday as police battled for a third day to clear activists who first set up the alternative commune a decade ago.
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By AFP
Krabi -
Hordes of tourists clamber across the white sand with selfie sticks as Thai park rangers wade into turquoise waters to direct boats charging into the cliff-ringed cove.
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By AFP
Equipped with harpoons and waterproof notebooks, Louis, Carlos and Antonis dive deep into the crystal clear waters of Konnos Bay in Cyprus on a mission to capture predatory lionfish.
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By AFP
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French police battled Tuesday to evict anti-airport protesters and the creators of an alternative anti-capitalist settlement in western France during a second day of clashes.
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By AFP
San Felipe -
The dried fish parts don't look like much to the novice eye, but the totoaba swim bladders discreetly displayed in this shop in Guangzhou, China sell for up to $20,000.
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By AFP
Notre-dame-des-landes -
French anti-capitalist activists clashed with riot police at burning barricades Monday during a huge security operation to clear a rural protest camp at the site of an abandoned airport project.
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By AFP
Notre-dame-des-landes -
Over 2,000 French police officers took part Monday in the expulsion of the last holdouts from an anti-capitalist camp at the site of an abandoned airport project near the western city of Nantes.
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By AFP
Den Haag -
A Dutch court Friday sentenced a Chinese man to a year in jail for smuggling five rhino horns and four other horn objects worth about 500,000 euros ($613,000) in his luggage.
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By AFP
Harare -
Zimbabwean police investigating an ivory-smuggling racket will soon question former ruler Robert Mugabe's wife Grace, who is accused of arranging shipments abroad, a government-owned newspaper reported Friday.
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By AFP
La Paz -
Bolivia's once-thriving jaguar population is loping into the cross-hairs of a growing threat from poachers responding to growing Chinese demand for the animal's teeth and skull.
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By AFP
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While a plate piled high with hairy, palm-sized tarantulas is the stuff of nightmares for some, these garlic fried spiders are a coveted treat in Cambodia, where the only fear is that they may soon vanish due to deforestation and unchecked hunting.
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By AFP
Manila -
The Philippines is closing its best-known holiday island Boracay to tourists for up to six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage, authorities said on Thursday.
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By AFP
Manila -
The Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage.
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By AFP
Rome -
Current food production methods are harming the planet while failing to provide millions of the world's poor with enough to eat, the UN food agency warned Tuesday.
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By AFP
London -
Britain will ban sales of ivory in a bid to help preserve the world's dwindling elephant population, the government announced Tuesday.
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According to a new study, the grounding line, where Antarctica's glaciers become floating ice shelves, is receding as much as 600 feet per year, bolstering fears of worst-case sea level rise.
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Scientists say a species of large, but harmless, sharks have been gathering in atypically big groups off of the northeastern United States and Canada.
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Environment Image
Ducks having fun in their new environment, Colony Farm, Port Coquitlam, BC.
Nuclear energy's impact on the environment. Rense.com
Locals rely on the area for their livelihoods which may explain part of why they care for the environments. Daniel Zanini H.
Spray Lakes above Canmore
From natural disasters to man-made disasters, they do impact on urbanization. YouTube
Some Sciaena umbra shot in the marine protected area of Port-Cros near the Gabinière Rock in France's Port-Cros National park. Arnaud Abadie
Prescribed burn of an oak savanna.In such a habitat the ground layer receives sun and shade. This permits a diversity of grasses and flowering plants to take hold, increasing biodiversity. Screen grab
My home in Alberta on the farm
Earth Day 2015 in Edmonton.
Defend Our Climate - Defend Our Communities mock wedding between the fossil fuel industry and government, May 10, 2014.
Greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets S. Ramis / L. Saubadu / J. Store, abm/gil, AFP
The Gowanus Project synthesizes multiple conditions that are changing the neighborhood, including sea level rise, the superfund cleanup and planning studies. Gowanus Canal Conservancy and SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC
Many of the oil palm plantations are owned by families who depend on the crop for their livelihood. WWF
Projections of decreased potential for snow to supply spring and summer human water demand by mid-century (reddest areas are highest risk; yellow, lowest). In blue/white areas, future rainfall should be sufficient to supply present human needs; gray regions indicate basins where rainfall might be insufficient, potentially making them dependent on snow or other sources. Mankin et al., Environmental Research Letters 2015
New study says it has finally linked ocean noise to stress in North Atlantic right whales. NOAA
Trees planted for the Live Green Toronto Festival.
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