Environment
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Environment
UN chief backs new blueprint to end ‘suicidal’ war on nature
LONDON: A new scientific blueprint for tackling climate change, pollution and the accelerating loss of plant and animal species published…
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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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Climate change makes July hotter by up to 3 degrees C
The three-day peak saw temperature records tumble in Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain while the city of Paris experienced its…
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7,000 species put on ‘Red List’
Mankind’s destruction of nature is driving species to the brink of extinction at an “unprecedented” rate, the leading wildlife conservation…
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Arts & Culture
Robert Downey Jr’s initiative to address climate change
At Amazon’s Machine learning, Automation, Robotics and Space (MARS) conference in Las Vegas, actor Robert Downey Jr took the stage…
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Environment
Millions urge Indian govt to declare a ‘climate emergency’
Inspired by teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old student Aman Sharma launched a petition on Change.org in May after…
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Environment
Canada to ban single-use plastics from 2021
“I am very pleased to announce that as early as 2021, Canada will ban harmful, single-use plastics from coast to…
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