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European Union members and the European Parliament on Monday agreed to slash carbon dioxide emissions from new cars by 37.5 percent by 2030, the European Commission announced.
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By AFP
Buenos Aires -
A major group of indigenous people living in Argentine Patagonia are taking some of the world's biggest oil and gas multinationals to court for "environmental contamination," Greenpeace said on Monday.
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Katowice -
Human addiction to fossil fuels as the answer to our energy needs and economic growth is slowly killing the planet. After a few promising years of minimal carbon-emission growth, the world is on pace to burn a bunch more fossil fuels.
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By AFP
Lelystad -
Dutch ranger Andre Donker sighs as he looks out at the rippling grey waters of the Markermeer, one of Europe's largest freshwater lakes. "Once upon a time it was teeming with fish here," he says.
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By AFP
Paris -
Faced with images of turtles smothered by plastic bags, beaches carpeted with garbage and islands of trash floating in the oceans, environmentalists say the world is waking up to the need to tackle plastic pollution at the source.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Australian researchers believe they have detected a dramatic decline in shark numbers over the last half century, findings that could challenge the use of culls as a way of responding to attacks.
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By AFP
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Global warming is heating the Arctic at a record pace, driving broad environmental changes across the planet, including extreme storms in the United States and Europe, a major US scientific report said Tuesday.
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By AFP
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From ankle-deep mud in Central Asia to the scorching heat of Australia, Mina Guli is running 100 marathons in 100 days to highlight a looming global water shortage.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef that survived bleaching from rising sea temperatures were more resistant to another bout of hot conditions the following year, scientists said Tuesday, a "silver lining" for the embattled ecosystem.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has reached "epidemic" proportions in recent years, causing damage to pristine forest and waterways, a conservation group said Monday as it released an unprecedented new map of the activities.
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By AFP
Paris -
Up to 25,000 people marched through Paris on Saturday urging greater action on climate change, despite fears that their protest would be scuppered by "yellow vest" demonstrations.
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By AFP
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Tens of thousands rallied Saturday in Turin to protest against a high speed train project to the French city of Lyon, fiercely opposed by environmentalists, as a waste of public funds.The scheme involves construction of a 57.5 kilometre (35.
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By AFP
Bras -
Brazil's environmental regulator on Friday denied French oil giant Total a license to drill for crude in five blocks near the mouth of the Amazon river.
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By AFP
Mexico -
In a dimly lit corner of a bustling market in Mexico City, vendors of amulets, voodoo dolls and other mystical objects sell tiny, taxidermied hummingbirds as charms to bring luck in love.
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By AFP
Russia -
Innokenty Tobonov sinks his harpoon into a long block of ice while his helpers expertly push it out of freezing lake waters onto the snow-dusted surface before sliding it towards an idling tractor.
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By AFP
Washington -
The Trump administration's move earlier this year to roll back fuel efficiency standards was based on a "deeply flawed" analysis that went against evidence and basic economic theory, US scientists said Thursday.
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By AFP
Sarajevo -
Winter is here and coal is burning, enveloping the Balkans in a toxic smog and turning its cities into some of the most polluted on the planet.
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By AFP
Paris -
Chanel has become the first luxury fashion house to turn its back on exotic animal pelts such as lizard, crocodile and snake skin, in a move hailed by animal rights groups Tuesday.
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By AFP
New Delhi -
India's environmental watchdog has slapped New Delhi's government with a $3.5 million fine for failing to enforce rules to reduce smog in the world's most polluted major city, officials said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Quito -
Galapagos giant tortoises possess genetic variants linked to DNA repair, immune response and cancer suppression -- providing clues into their longevity, according to a study published Monday.
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By AFP
Bratislava -
Hundreds protested in Bratislava on Monday against the detention without bail of 12 Greenpeace activists who staged a protest at Slovakia's largest brown coal mine, a move that the EU country's president and premier have both criticised.
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By AFP
Paris -
Angry "yellow vest" protesters, hard-core agitators or young delinquents: building a typical profile of the rioters in Paris this weekend is no easy task.
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By AFP
Buenos Aires -
Strains over climate change marked the end of the G20 summit in Argentina Saturday as the United States celebrated what it called a victory for its holdout stance.
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By AFP
Rio De Janeiro -
Brazil's incoming far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, took a swipe on Saturday at the government's environmental monitoring agencies, warning he would not allow them to impose "fines all over the place.
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More than 40 percent of the world’s coal plants are operating at a loss due to high fuel costs and that proportion could rise to nearly 75 percent by 2040, a report by London-based environmental think-tank Carbon Tracker showed on Friday.
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By AFP
Wellington -
More than 50 beached pilot whales perished in New Zealand Friday, the latest in a spate of mass strandings this week that experts have linked to rising ocean temperatures.
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By AFP
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Just like the Sentinelese tribal people who recently killed an American who ventured onto their Indian Ocean island, Amerindians from the Amazon rainforest reject all contact with the outside world.
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By AFP
Sydney -
Australia's unique platypus population is shrinking under pressure from agriculture and pollution, putting the egg-laying mammals' future in doubt, researchers said in a report published Thursday.
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Two pipelines being built across Pennsylvania and Ohio by Energy Transfer and its Sunoco subsidiary have amassed more than 800 state and federal permit violations while racing to build two of the nation’s largest natural gas pipelines.
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Little by little, many homeowners and communities are opting for a greener way to live, including switching from using asphalt to using permeable or porous paving options for driveways and other paved surfaces.
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Earth Day 2015 in Edmonton.
Pristine areas of the Ecuadorian Amazon region. A. Davey
Decontamination work has included washing roof tiles and walls of houses and other buildings as well as decontaminating a schoolyard in the Fukushima Prefecture. Japan Ministry of the Environment
Larger areas of what used to be layers of thick grass destroyed by landscaping machinery and creeks' banks with their ner, more regular shapes, Colony Farm, Port Coquitlam, BC.
File photo: The photo shows pristine fields of New South Wales, Australia, located approximately 25 km south-east of the township of Gunnedah. Shenhua Australia
People's Climate March, Edmonton.
A tweet raising concerns about the environmental impact of tofu.
President Barack Obama seen here in 2009, remarks on investments in clean energy and new technology. Environmental Defense Fund called Obama's budget proposal a "big net plus" for the environment. Lawrence Jackson. Whitehouse.gov
South Dakota has quite a lot of unspoiled natural areas up for sale. Andrew Filer
Logo Global Clean Energy Congress and Exhibition
Earth Day 2015 in Edmonton. Elder Betty Letendre gives the opening blessing.
Barry Robinson, Ecojustice lawyer Kim Shearon, Ecojustice
Map showing fracking sites in Gulf of mexico (2010 to 2014). Center for Biological Diversity
Farms on the Amazon floodplain in Brazil
No pool exists that could possibly replicate the natural conditions of the ocean for captive orcas. Voice of the Orcas
Sources of contamination caused by fracking. Pete WDHCo
Stefano Boeri Architetti's newly announced Forêt Blanche tower will play home to offices and commercial services on the lower floors and residential apartments up top. Stefano Boeri Architetti
Earth Day celebrations in Edmonton.
Earth Day celebrations in Edmonton.
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