Record year for coal in 2024, world’s hottest year
PARIS (AFP) - World coal use is set to reach an all-time high in 2024, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, in a year...
Scientists struggle to explain record surge in global heat
PARIS (AFP) - The world has been getting hotter for decades but a sudden and extraordinary surge in heat has sent the climate deeper...
Huge and rare Mekong catfish spotted in Cambodia
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Six critically endangered Mekong giant catfish — one of the largest and rarest freshwater fish in the world — were...
2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record: EU monitor
PARIS (AFP) - This year is "effectively certain" to be the hottest on record and the first above a critical threshold to protect the...
Discarded fishing nets recycled for various products in Japan
TOKYO (ANN/JAPAN NEWS) – Recycling discarded fishing nets into daily essentials and products has emerged as a creative solution to the worsening problem of...
UN chief defends plastic pollution talks after collapse
BUSAN, South Korea (AFP) - The UN environment chief insisted Monday that talks on a landmark plastic pollution treaty were not a failure, saying...
Negotiators get closer to agreeing on a plastic pollution treaty
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution inched closer to an agreement Friday,...
Thailand to return nearly 1,000 trafficked lemurs, tortoises to Madagascar
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered lemurs and tortoises back to their home in Madagascar, in what both countries called...
K-pop fans take aim at CD, merchandise waste
SEOUL (AFP) - K-pop fan Kim Na-Yeon used to buy stacks of the same album when there was a new release, hoping to find...
Parts of Great Barrier Reef suffer highest coral mortality on record
SYDNEY (AFP) - Parts of the Great Barrer Reef have suffered the highest coral mortality on record, Australian research showed Tuesday, with scientists fearing...
