climat Archives

California's Rabbit Fire has scorched over 7,500 acres amid brutally high temperatures

World

Record heatwaves sweep the world, from US to Europe and Asia

A powerful heatwave stretching from California to Texas was expected to peak, according to the US National Weather Service.

AFPJuly 16, 2023

New, more resistant varieties of peaches are being grown on the campus of the University of Georgia, in Griffin

Business

As climate changes, farms in US ‘Peach State’ Georgia suffer

From a distance, everything looks normal: neat rows of peach trees, their green leaves fluttering in the wind, near a pretty little American farmhouse. ...

AFPJuly 15, 2023

Americans are watching as a powerful heatwave has stretches from California to Texas, with its peak expected this weekend

World

Record heatwaves sweep the world from US to Japan via Europe

Record heat is forecast around the world from the U.S., where tens of millions are battling dangerously high temperatures, to Europe and Japan.

AFPJuly 15, 2023

France will officially dissolve the Soulevements de la Terre (Uprisings of the Earth) coalition

World

France to shut down climate NGO after protest violence

French authorities are expected shortly to issue a decree shutting down a climate activist group after demonstrators clashed with police over a controversial irrigation...

AFPJune 20, 2023

Following four years of official negotiations, UN member states finally agreed on the text for the treaty in March after a flurry of final, marathon talks

World

UN to finally adopt high seas treaty

The world’s first international treaty to protect the high seas is due to be adopted Monday at the United Nations, a historic environmental accord...

AFPJune 18, 2023

The United Nations is set to adopt the text of its high seas treaty on June 19 -- but it won't go into effect until 60 countries ratify it

World

What will the UN high seas treaty mean for protecting the ocean?

The world’s first international treaty on the high seas, set to be adopted by the United Nations on Monday, contains landmark tools for the...

AFPJune 15, 2023

Tourists hiking in Monteverde's 'cloud forest' in Costa Rica, in May 2023: the rare environment is under threat from rising temperatures and climate change

World

In Costa Rica, climate change threatens ‘cloud forest’

The “cloud forest” of Monteverde, in the center of Costa Rica, will soon no longer be worthy of the name: climate change threatens this...

AFPJune 2, 2023

Lesley Lokko, the curator of the Venice Architecture Biennale

World

Venice exhibition shines light on Africa’s forced urbanization

From nomads to deforestation, this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale focuses on Africa and the impact of colonisation on the development of a continent undergoing...

AFPMay 26, 2023