By AFP/Mary YANGGruff men shout over an angry motor as they float huge blocks of ice towards a rusty conveyor belt on the bank of a frozen river in northeastern China.Every winter, dozens of workers brave subzero temperatures to hack ice from the mig...

By AFP/Kelly MACNAMARAHuman societies need a radical overhaul to stop the destruction of the planet, according to the UN biodiversity expert panel's "transformative change" report released Wednesday.The assessment, the second by the expert panel this...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDPresident Joe Biden's administration on Thursday unveiled an ambitious new climate target under the landmark Paris accord, just weeks before Donald Trump's return to the White House threatens to upend US efforts to combat global war...

By AFP/Mustafa HAJI ABDINURSomalia took the ambitious step of banning single-use plastic bags this year, but in a country with many economic challenges, it has proved hard to implement.It follows similar plastic bans in other east African countries i...

By AFPThe record-breaking retreat of Antarctic sea ice in 2023 has led to more frequent storms over newly exposed parts of the Southern Ocean, according to a study published Wednesday.Scientists know that the loss of Antarctic sea ice can diminish pe...

By AFPEcuador announced Tuesday that it had converted part of its $1.5 billion of external debt into protection for the Amazon rainforest, the second so-called debt-for-nature swap in the South American country.Economy Minister Juan Carlos Vega said...

By AFPWorld coal use is set to reach an all-time high in 2024, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, in a year all but certain to be the hottest in recorded history.Despite calls to halt humanity's burning of the filthiest fossil fuel drivi...

By AFPEU countries on Tuesday backed plans to curb plastic pollution by toughening rules for companies using the pellets that constitute the building blocks of most plastic products.The microscopic pellets, called nurdles, are the base material used...

By AFPA white Christmas may increasingly become a nostalgic memory as the Northern Hemisphere sees ever fewer snowy winter days due to climate change, with Europe warming quickest, a report warned on Tuesday.Driven primarily by humanity's mass burnin...

By AFP/Hiroshi HIYAMAJapan wants renewables to be its top power source by 2040 in its push to become carbon neutral by mid-century, under government plans unveiled on Tuesday.Thirteen years after the 2011 Fukushima disaster, Tokyo also reaffirmed tha...

By AFP/Issam AHMEDThe common murre, a large black-and-white seabird native to northern waters, has become far less common in Alaska over the past decade due to the impacts of climate change.A study published Thursday in Science reveals that a record-...

By AFPFour white rhinos have died in Zimbabwe after drinking from a sewage-polluted lake that is also the main supplier of water to the nearby capital, the wildlife authority said Saturday.Three zebra, four wildebeest, four fish eagles and several go...