Environment
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New Zealand begins rescue mission for 25 stranded whales
Sydney, Australia, Oct 17 (efe-epa).- Rescuers were on Saturday trying to save a large pod of whales stranded in shallow,…
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Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half its corals since 1995
Sydney, Australia, Oct 14 (efe-epa).- The Great Barrier Reef, which stretches 2,300 kilometers off the northeast coast of Australia, has…
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Indian capital’s tryst with hazardous air is back
New Delhi, Oct 13 (efe-epa).- Air quality in the Indian capital of New Delhi has hit the hazardous levels, falling…
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Covid-19 cuts carbon emissions but action needed for change to last: IEA
Paris, Oct 13 (efe-epa).- Global energy demand is set to drop 5% and carbon dioxide emissions by 7% in 2020…
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UN says climate-related disasters rose 80 percent since 2000
By Antonio Broto Geneva, Oct 12 (efe-epa).- There were 6,681 climate-related natural disasters in the first two decades of the…
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Droughts threatening the world’s wetlands
Sydney, Australia, Oct 9 (efe-epa).- Droughts, which are becoming increasingly frequent due to climate change, are threatening the world’s wetlands…
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Big chasm between California, Trump in approach to climate crisis
By Javier Romualdo Los Angeles, Oct 8 (efe-epa).- How to deal with the climate crisis is a delicate issue in…
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Some 14 million tonnes of microplastics pollute ocean floor: study
Sydney, Australia, Oct 6 (efe-epa).- There are about 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor, an Australian study published…
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40% of Amazon at risk of turning into savanna, study warns
London, Oct 5 (efe-epa).- Around 40 percent of the Amazon rainforest is at risk of becoming a savanna-type ecosystem due…
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Environmentalists to reintroduce Tasmanian devils to mainland Australia
Sydney, Australia, Oct 5 (efe-epa).- An environmental group has released more than 25 Tasmanian devils in mainland Australia through a…
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