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Investors may exit consumer goods firms over EU deforestation law

13 June, 2023 Andrew 0 Comments Amazon Animals Climate Change Energy Food Nature Oceans Plastic Pollution Poverty Science Water 10:23 am

LONDON - As a new European Union zero-tolerance deforestation law looms, several major investors told Reuters they are concerned about their exposure to the issue, with some saying they could quit consumer goods makers with…

UAE looks to salty, muddy mangroves in climate change fight

12 June, 2023 Andrew 0 Comments Climate Change Nature Oceans Pollution Science Water 9:09 am

Climate Change - ABU DHABI - Against the heat, urbanisation and sand of the United Arab Emirates, the placid, muddy waterways of the Gulf state's coastal mangroves are being restored and planted in an ambitious…

Earth Rally : United to creat true change

27 May, 2023 M D 0 Comments Amazon Animals Climate Change Climate Change Conference of the Parties COP Energy Food Nature Oceans Plastic Pollution Poverty Science Water 4:05 am

WE UNITED CAN AND WILL MAKE THAT IMPORTANT CHANGE NEEDED. IT is CLEAR that The COP events did very little to actually focus on the real issues harming our great planet. For this reason I…

Climate change – Global warming set to break key 1.5C limit for first time

18 May, 2023 Andrew 0 Comments Climate Change Nature Oceans Pollution Science Water 11:49 am

This is how El Niño brought heat to the surface of the Pacific in 2015 Our overheating world is likely to break a key temperature limit for the first time over the next few years,…

COP27 Climate anxiety is rising – it might be a good thing

7 November, 2022 F M 0 Comments Amazon Animals Climate Change COP Energy Food Nature Oceans Plastic Pollution Poverty Science Water 2:09 pm

Earth Rally COP27 2022 Global leaders are about to meet for another UN climate summit - COP27 starting in Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday - and the reality of climate change for many people can be…

COP27 ‘Climate chaos’ warning as UN summit begins

7 November, 2022 M D 0 Comments Climate Change Conference of the Parties COP Energy Food Nature Oceans Plastic Pollution Poverty Science Water 1:00 pm

Climate Change COP27 Egypt The UN's climate change summit has opened in Egypt with a warning that our planet is "sending a distress signal". Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was responding to a UN report released on…

Pakistan floods Map and satellite photos show extent of devastation

31 August, 2022 Andrew 0 Comments Climate Change COP Nature Pollution Poverty Water 1:34 pm

Monsoon rains have caused devastating floods in Pakistan, leaving millions homeless, destroying buildings, bridges and roads and leaving vast swathes of the country under water. Flash floods and landslides along the Indus and Kabul rivers…

Goats, sheep and livelihoods lost to floods and cold in northern Kenya

26 January, 2022 M D 0 Comments Climate Change Food Nature Pollution Poverty Water 9:52 am

Carcasses of goats and sheep strewn across the scrubland of northern Kenya are testament to the devastation wrought by the once-in-a-generation floods that have hit the region. In just one area of Marsabit County, herders…

Indonesia aims to get mangrove restoration back on track in 2022

20 January, 2022 Andrew 0 Comments Climate Change Food Nature Oceans Pollution Poverty Science Water 5:14 pm

Indonesia aims to restore 150,000 hectares of degraded mangroves this year, after rehabilitating about a quarter of this total last year when funds had to be diverted from the state budget to tackle the coronavirus…

Water crisis looms for tsunami-hit Tonga; New Zealand help on the way

19 January, 2022 Andrew 0 Comments Climate Change Nature Oceans Pollution Poverty Water 10:07 am

Two New Zealand navy vessels will arrive in Tonga on Friday carrying critical water supplies for the Pacific island nation reeling from a volcanic eruption and tsunami and largely cut off from the outside world. Hundreds of homes in Tonga’s smaller…

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