Climate Change
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Heat-resilient Red Sea reefs offer last stand for corals
MARSA ALAM, Egypt (AFP-Jiji) — Beneath the waters off Egypt’s Red Sea coast a kaleidoscopic ecosyste...
November 5, 2022
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Climate pledges ‘nowhere near’ enough for 1.5 C goal
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — The world’s current climate pledges are far off track to limit temperature rises ...
November 5, 2022
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It’s time to get serious about climate adaptation. Here’s how.
For years climate change warnings have followed a similar pattern: Act now to prevent catastrophic c...
November 4, 2022
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Northern French spoil heaps warm to Charbonnay production
HAILLICOURT, France (Reuters) — Forget hiking or skiing, the latest trend on the spoil heaps that li...
October 26, 2022
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Drought is killing Kenya’s endangered wildlife
NAIROBI (Reuters) — Kenya’s worst drought in four decades has killed almost 2% of the world’s rarest...
October 26, 2022
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Plentiful water offers relief in Vienna
VIENNA (AFP-Jiji) — As Europe suffered its worst drought in centuries, residents in Austria’s capita...
October 21, 2022
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Twilight of the Tigris: Iraq’s mighty river drying up
BAGHDAD (AFP-Jiji) — It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and h...
October 20, 2022
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Tunisian ‘hanging gardens’ cling on despite drought
DJEBBA, Tunisia (AFP-Jiji) — High in the hills of northwestern Tunisia, farmers are tending thousand...
October 3, 2022
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Giant 200-yr-old cactus toppled by heavy rain in U.S.
LOS ANGELES (AFP-Jiji) — A giant Saguaro cactus that had lived for some 200 years was toppled by hea...
September 25, 2022
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UAE turns to science to squeeze more rainfall from clouds
ABU DHABI (Reuters) — As a twin-turboprop aircraft takes off under the burning desert sun with dozen...
September 25, 2022
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Greenland treads softly on tourism as icebergs melt
ILULISSAT, Greenland (AFP-Jiji) — As tourists flock to Greenland to take in its breathtaking iceberg...
September 16, 2022
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Iraq’s Garden of Eden now ‘like a desert’
HUWAIZAH MARSHES, Iraq (AFP-Jiji) — To feed and cool his buffaloes, Hashem Gassed must cross 10 kilo...
September 16, 2022
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EU satellite monitor says 2022 Europe’s hottest summer on record
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Europe’s recorded history, with the contine...
September 15, 2022
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Number of Brazil Amazon fires hits 5-yr high in August
MANAUS, Brazil (AP) — More fires burned in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest this August than in any m...
September 7, 2022
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Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur ink accord to deepen ties
The Tokyo metropolitan government and Kuala Lumpur signed a letter of intent Thursday, aiming to str...
September 2, 2022
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