Environment
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Millions in Indian capital endure ‘eye-burning’ smog
Millions of people in India’s capital started the week on Monday choking through “eye-burning” smog, with schools closed, cars taken…
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Oil spill threatens rare dolphin’s breeding zone in Bangladesh
An oil spill on a river in southeast Bangladesh has threatened the breeding ground of the critically endangered Ganges dolphin,…
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G7 pledges millions to help fight Amazon fires
The G7 has agreed to spend $20 million (18 million euros) on the Amazon, mainly to send fire-fighting aircraft to…
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Hundreds of new fires in Brazil as outrage over Amazon grows
Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil, official data showed Saturday, amid growing international…
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Protests to greet G7 leaders as they discuss Amazon fires, trade
The leaders of the G7 club of rich countries meet in southern France on Saturday, with the burning Amazon, diving…
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Indians plant 220 million trees in a single day
More than a million Indians planted 220 million trees on Friday in a government campaign to tackle climate change and…
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Can we eat meat and still tame global warming?
Not everyone needs to become a vegetarian, much less vegan, to keep the planet from overheating, but it would surely…
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Quarter of the world’s population facing extreme water stress
The Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas of World Resources Institute (WRI) ranked water stress, drought risk and riverine flood risk using…
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Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting world record
A campaign to plant 200 million young trees in a day has kicked off in Ethiopia under Prime Minister Abiy…
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Humanity’s next test: feed 10 billion without ruining Earth
It is a question critical to mankind’s survival: how do we grow enough food to sustain our booming population without…
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