World leaders will face a reckoning over humanity's failure to curb climate-heating emissions and polluting fossil fuels when they meet for UN climate talks next week, as the planet swelters in likely the hottest year in ...
Environment
Nov 23, 2023
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Experts are calling on global leaders to implement climate mitigation actions that could prevent millions of premature deaths worldwide each year as well as reduce the risks of climate change.
Environment
Nov 21, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the most serious crises since the end of World War II, taking a staggering human and economic toll across the planet. As the world gets up again, groggily, like a punch-drunk fighter, it's ...
Political science
Nov 8, 2023
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More than a tenth of the world's billionaires have held or sought political office, according to a new study published in Perspectives on Politics.
Political science
Oct 30, 2023
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Over 200 health journals across the world have come together to simultaneously publish an editorial calling on world leaders and health professionals to recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are one indivisible ...
Environment
Oct 25, 2023
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Wavering ambition by governments and a growing belief that science is politically subjective are great causes for concern in a rapidly escalating climate crisis, an expert told AFP.
Environment
Sep 29, 2023
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Today, 1.2 billion people live in poverty. To lift them out of it, an average of about six tons of raw materials are needed per person and year—in particular minerals, fossil fuels, biomass and metal ores. This is the result ...
Environment
Sep 27, 2023
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New research published in the journal Climatic Change finds that media coverage can have long-lasting impacts on public opinion when it comes to technological solutions to deal with climate change, such as reflecting sunlight ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2023
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On 18–19 September, the United Nations will convene a major summit to review the state of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)—the 17 global goals that governments agreed upon in 2015 to guide action towards a prosperous ...
Environment
Sep 14, 2023
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government continues to be tied up in a massive scandal over its plans to remove lands from Ontario's Greenbelt—including the integrity commissioner's finding that the housing minister broke ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2023
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