Sydney: At least 50 climate change activists were charged with unlawful demonstration near Australia's largest coal export port on Sunday after protesters climbed on a coal train and shovelled the coal. New South Wales state police said 47 demonstrators were charged with "rail corridor offences", two
Washington: Africa is struggling with the triple shock of rising debt burdens, an ongoing food crisis and climate change fallout and needs more help from international institutions and wealthy nations to cope, African finance ministers said. Developing African economies were only beginning to recover from the
Sapporo Japan: Sultan Al Jaber, president of the COP28 climate talks, called on Saturday for "available, accessible and affordable" finance for the developing economies most vulnerable to the destructive impacts of a warming planet. Al Jaber, who is also head of the United Arab Emirates' national
Mogadishu: Somalia is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year. Some 8.3 million Somalis, almost
Tokyo: Japanese companies and climate groups called on the nation's government on Wednesday to step up the introduction of renewable energy and quickly adopt carbon pricing to tackle global warming. The Japan Climate Initiative (JCI), an alliance of companies, local governments and NGOs, issued the message
Jonathan Gornall The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released its latest alarming report, warning that “there is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.” Few journalists read past this apocalyptic warning, especially those committed to the demonisation of
Rome: Climate activists in Italy turned a Baroque-style fountain at the foot of Rome’s Spanish Steps black on Saturday, in a protest they said evoked an “end of the world” scenario. Three activists from the anti-climate change organization Last Generation poured a vegetable-based carbon liquid into
Monte Cristi (Dominican Republic): The anti-migrant wall being built in the northwest of the Dominican Republic crisscrosses a thick mangrove forest and threatens the ecosystem by depriving it of water, environmental groups warn. The Dominican government wants to build a 160 kilometer (100 mile) concrete fence
New York: A UN resolution was adopted that should make it easier to hold polluting countries legally accountable for failing to tackle the climate emergency, in a vote which was hailed as a historic victory for climate justice. The UN general assembly adopted by consensus the
Ohio: Researchers studying hardwoods in northwest Ohio say a century of warming has extended their annual growing season by a month on average. The scientists from Ohio State University compared recent observations to detailed notes a local farmer began taking in the 19th Century. They say the