US East Coast blanketed in hazardous smog from Canadian wildfire
[ad_1] Schools across the US East Coast canceled outdoor activities, commercial airline traffic was slowed and millions of Americans were urged to stay indoors on Wednesday as...
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‘The air is unbreathable’: Congolese living near a foundry say they
[ad_1] Issued on: 06/06/2023 – 16:57 For weeks now, Cyrille Traoré Nbembi has been filming video after video of the black smoke coming out of...
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Plastic recycling in focus as countries meet in Paris for treaty talks
[ad_1] With countries meeting this week to work on a global plastics treaty, debate was emerging between countries wanting to limit the production of more...
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How ’15-minute cities’ turned into an international conspiracy theory
[ad_1] CNN — Duncan Enright never imagined he’d get death threats over a plan to reduce grinding city traffic. But it is exactly what happened...
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‘Collapse of habitats’: 40 percent of animals in US at risk of
[ad_1] Issued on: 07/02/2023 – 17:11Modified: 07/02/2023 – 19:51 02:03 An elk in Eatonville,Washington, USA. © Reuters Some 40 percent of animals and 34 percent...
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Gaza: People turn to firewood to survive as energy prices soar
[ad_1] Issued on: 05/01/2023 – 21:27Modified: 05/01/2023 – 21:36 02:13 Saadeya al-Malaha cooks on a wood-fuelled fire at her home in Gaza City on January...
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EU agrees on ‘carbon mechanism’ for industrial imports, making ‘the
[ad_1] Issued on: 13/12/2022 – 08:49 EU member states announced Tuesday the adoption of a mechanism that would bring the bloc’s industrial imports under environmental...
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Air pollution killed 238,000 Europeans prematurely in 2020: EU
[ad_1] Issued on: 24/11/2022 – 08:52 Fine particle air pollution led to 238,000 premature deaths in the European Union in 2020, the bloc’s environmental watchdog...
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COP27 climate summit: Here’s what to watch
[ad_1] CNN — As global leaders converge in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, for the UN’s annual climate summit, researchers, advocates and the United Nations itself are...
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Will the summer of 2022 hasten France’s efforts to fight climate change?
[ad_1] The summer of 2022 was a record-breaking season, marked by several heatwaves, forest fires and severe drought. These extreme weather events seem to have...
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California to ban the sale of new petrol-powered cars by 2035
[ad_1] California plans to require all new cars, trucks and SUVs to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2035 under a policy approved Thursday by...
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European forest fires further increasing the world’s climate footprint
[ad_1] The multiple forest fires that have been raging in France since the beginning of summer have released record amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, according...