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Matiul Haq Khalis, head of the National Environmental Protection Agency from Afghanistan, said Afghanistan must participate in future climate talks. File | Photo Credit: AP An Afghan environment official on Sunday (December 1, 2024) said the country must be allowed to participate in future global climate talks, after returning from COP29 in Baku where Taliban […]
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A dangerous weather phenomenon called a bomb cyclone that occurs in mid-latitudes – between Earth’s tropics and the polar regions – can bring strong and damaging winds, torrential rains, heavy snowfall, flooding and frigid temperatures. Here is an explanation of bomb cyclones: WHAT IS A BOMB CYCLONE? A bomb cyclone, also referred to as explosive […]
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Tourists visit the Santa Claus Village during a rainy day, on November 16, 2024, near Rovaniemi, Finnish Lapland. With a month to go until Christmas, Santa Claus is busy preparing, but the warming climate and lack of snow in his Arctic hometown have him worried. | Photo Credit: AFP With a month to go until […]
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A man holds a sign against plastic pollution outside the venue at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit on Saturday (November 16, 2024), in Baku, Azerbaijan. | Photo Credit: AP The exhaust from the planes that ferried ministerial delegates to Baku for the climate conference, which concluded on Sunday (November 24, 2024), has barely settled. Yet […]
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Activists demonstrate in silence protesting a draft of a proposed deal for curbing climate change at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. File | Photo Credit: AP The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday (November 24, 2024) but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters […]
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Activists demonstrate in silence protesting a draft of a proposed deal for curbing climate change at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. File | Photo Credit: AP The world approved a bitterly negotiated climate deal Sunday (November 24, 2024) but poorer nations most at the mercy of worsening disasters […]
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The logo of the COP29 United Nations climate change conference is seen next to the temporary fences in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: The 29th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP), arguably the most important of the UN’s climate conferences, was scheduled to end on […]
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A man walks past a logo of the COP29 United Nations climate change conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan November 22, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters New rules allowing wealthy polluting countries to buy carbon-cutting “offsets” from developing nations were agreed at U.N. climate talks on Saturday (November 24, 2024), in a move already raising fears they […]
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Samoan Environment Minister Toeolesulusulu Cedric Schuster attends the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku, Azerbaijan on November 23, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Negotiators from small islands and least-developed nations on Saturday (November 23, 2024) walked out of overtime consultations on a climate deal with COP29 president Azerbaijan, saying their interests on finance […]
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Civil society members staged a silent march at the U.N. climate summit | Photo Credit: REUTERS Civil society members staged a silent march at the U.N. climate summit, condemning the developed nations’ proposal to increase annual climate finance to a meagre $250 billion by 2035. They called on the developing world to reject what they […]
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