Thu 28 November 2024: Indonesian rescuers are searching for passengers trapped in a minibus buried in mud after flash floods and landslides hit several locations in North Sumatra province, killing at least 27, an official said on Thursday. Torrential rain in the province since last week had caused flash floods and landslides in four different […]
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New York artists create an incredible 38-foot-tall whale made from 5 tons of plastic waste in Brugge, Belgium. Tue 26 November 2024: Island nations say recycling insufficient to solve problem when 400 million tonnes of plastic waste is produced yearly. Negotiators are gathering in Busan, South Korea, this week in a final push to forge […]
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Sat 23 November 2024: Scientists say coral ‘pulsing with life and colour’ is believed to be 300 years old and three times larger than previous record holder. Scientists have found the largest coral in the world near the remote Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean, a gigantic organism that can be seen from space. The […]
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Tue 19 November 2024: Schools go online until further notice because of worsening toxic smog, the latest bid to ease the Indian capital’s health crisis Authorities in India’s capital have shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season. A thick […]
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Mon 18 November 2024: Over half of Australia’s animal and plant species experienced declines following the country’s 2019-20 megafires, new research has found. The new research, published by Melbourne’s Deakin University in Nature, analyzed the impact of the 2019-20 Black Summer bushfires on 1,380 animal and plant species found in Australia. It found that 55 […]
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Mon 18 November 2024: While government has made strides in environmental compliance, significant work is needed to address pervasive issues like untreated sewage discharge to land, freshwater, and coastal areas. This is according to the 2023/24 National Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Report (NECER), which was launched on Monday by Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and […]
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Sat 16 November 2024: Journalists Megan O’Toole and Jillian Kestler-D’Amours win award for report on Indigenous fight for water rights in US. Al Jazeera English online has been awarded a top prize at the 29th annual Amnesty International Canada Media Awards for a report on the Indigenous struggle for water rights in the southwestern United […]
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Fri 15 November 2024: The population of both savannah and forest elephant species has declined sharply in the past half a century across the sub-Saharan African region, according to a research report released in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. Published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the report, which was released Monday evening, […]
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Thu 14 November 2024: Toxic smog obscured India’s famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal, as well as Sikhism’s holiest shrine, the Golden Temple in Amritsar, and delayed flights on Thursday, becoming too thick to see through in several places. The city of Lahore in neighbouring Pakistan ranked as the world’s most polluted in winter’s […]
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Wed 13 November 2024: A new fire season crackles to life in Kalimantan as 29-year-old Emmanuela Shinta monitors the air quality and distributes face masks to thousands of villagers expecting the worst. But she knows it is not enough. Each year, the region is prone to deadly fires caused by deforestation, trapping Borneo in a […]
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