10/11/2023

Australia offers Tuvalu citizens climate refuge

Citizens of climate-threatened Tuvalu will have the right to live in Australia under a landmark pact unveiled Friday—an offer of refuge as their Pacific homeland is lost beneath the seas.

Battle looms over renewed plastic treaty negotiations

Representatives from 175 nations meet in Nairobi from Monday to negotiate for the first time what concrete measures should be included in a binding global treaty to end plastic pollution.

China's animal lovers fight illegal cat meat trade

When Han Jiali's beloved cat Dabai was taken from her Shanghai home last year, she embarked on a hunt for her pet that took her deep into the bowels of China's underground feline meat trade.

Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon down 22% in a year

Brazilian Amazon deforestation fell 22.3 percent in the year through July, hitting a five-year low, officials said Thursday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government fights to curb destruction of the world's biggest ...

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