By AFP/Sara HusseinA few dozen kilometres from the Philippine capital Manila sits a coal plant that some hope could be a model for how developing countries can quit the polluting fossil fuel.An alliance led by The Rockefeller Foundation, a philanthro...

By AFP/Agnès PEDREROIncreasingly intense floods and droughts are a "distress signal" of what is to come as climate change makes the planet's water cycle ever more unpredictable, the United Nations warned Monday.Last year the world's rivers were their...

By AFP/Benjamin LegendreTwo years after a landmark UN-brokered deal to protect nature from a massive wave of destruction, delegates will gather at a new COP in Colombia in late October to assess their progress.Representatives from some 200 countries...

By AFPAustralia moved Tuesday to protect a swathe of ocean territory by expanding an Antarctic marine park that is home to penguins, seals, whales and the country's only two active volcanos.The marine reserve -- Heard Island and McDonald Island -- lo...

By AFPDeforestation continued last year at a rate far beyond pledges to end the practice by 2030, according to a major study published Tuesday.Forests nearly the size of Ireland were lost in 2023, according to two dozen research organisations, NGOs a...

By AFP/Nick PerryNations remain in deadlock over a crucial pact on climate aid, with divisions over who pays, and how much, threatening chances of a deal being landed at next month's COP29 summit.The UN conference starts just six days after the US el...

By AFP/Ella IdeThe sheep huddle together, bleeding from the nose, aborting lambs or suffocating on saliva as they succumb to bluetongue, a virus sweeping through flocks on the Italian island of Sardinia.Some 20,000 sheep have died so far this year on...

By AFP/Hervé BarEcuadoran activist Alex Lucitante has never shied away from the fight against land-grabbing miners and armed groups in his restive part of the Amazon jungle bordering Colombia.Later this month, he will take his battle to world leaders...

By AFP/Sahar Al AttarRoasted by summer temperatures too hot for the beach, Dubai has turned to an innovative solution: opening them at night, complete with floodlights and lifeguards carrying night-vision binoculars.The idea, in one of the world's ho...

By AFP/Ulysse BellierThe only road to Pensacola, in the remote mountains of western North Carolina, is now a muddy path through deep, twisting gorges. Its main bridges were swept away last week in floods fueled by devastating Hurricane Helene -- and...

By AFP/Rusmir SMAJILHODZICA Vincent Van Gogh aficionado in Bosnia has turned a plot of land into a giant, living reproduction of the painter's masterpiece, "Starry Night", composed of thousands of plants."Vincent Van Gogh belongs to us too. It's our...

By AFPPrime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday said planned government investments of nearly £22 billion ($28.8 billion) in the capture and storage of carbon emissions marked a "landmark week" for Britain.Starmer announced the £21.7 billion investment o...